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I acctually stooped to applying for a PC world tech job once, they turned me down as I was "over qualified" for the post (their words not mine) becuase I'd worked in tech support before for 2 years lol
Is this legal? I dont remember any mention of not being able to use 3rd party hardware in the system.

And by the sounds of this they are specifically targeting 3rd party drives.

I see more European competition investigations on the books in the near future
Just put it up on in Games on Demand and list its age rating as unclassified/unrated?
You go all christie brown on it and work that left foot!
I know about 99% of my torrent traffic is TV shows and Films.
TPB is already dead to me im just hoping the good sites start adding the "tracker.openbittorrent com:80/announce"
No harm but unless the characters can be older i.e. late teens + I'm not that interested milo or millie.
I dont mind admitting it but i dont like children, the last thing i was on my xbox is an interactive one. At least with a character which is a bit older there might be half a chance of me liking it.
I can almost guarentee that not only is someone at microsoft working on windows 8 or whatever they end up calling it, they will also have someone thinking about the version after that. Its always been like that and allways will be
If it works the way the current HP Woorkstation system runs at the minute with Vista and XP, the system will come with a Windows 7 sticker, and Windows 7 Recovery Media but will have Windows XP pre-installed on the System.

HP will only support a downgrade to XP if its installed using the HP Restore Plus Disc first, which doesnt require a user to enter their product key, and installs most of the HP drivers automatically.
I cant wait to get my hands on one, I work for HP support and this system should make my job easy.

It can be stripped in 60 seconds
The PSU runs from front to back (i.e. separate air flow)
Optional liquid cooling

The full specs page can be found by seaching for HP Quickspecs, pick workstations then z800
The only game i'd even consider spending 800 points on is scrabble, but its not even available outside the US so I cant even do that.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
 

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