>> Interesting. I have an email from WordPress notifying me that you just 
>> signed up... ;-)
> 
> That doesn't help much if wordpress doesn't mail me the password. :-)

OK, that's pretty random.

>>> The "measuring performance" is indeed checking things including your 
>>> graphics, RAM speed, disk speed, etc.
>>
>> Why does that take 20 minutes? memtest86 gives me most of those 
>> measurements in 0.2 seconds.
> 
> Dunno. It takes about 5 on mine, IIRC, but then I have a kick-ass 
> graphics card. Much of the time is spent evaluating the abiltiy to scale 
> textures, do shadows and lights, stuff like that.

Mmm, OK. It just seemed to take an absurdly long time to do whatever it 
was doing. (And nailing the HD while it was doing it.)

>> For some reason, the welcome page automatically opens every time I log 
>> in and won't go away.
> 
> The checkbox at the bottom that says "Show this every time windows 
> starts"? Uncheck that.

Yeah, I already found that. ;-)

>> Also amusing was the manual's description of the covers on the bottom. 
>> One is labelled "harddrive" and the other is labelled "secondary 
>> harddrive". What, you mean you can put two in it? I suspect not! ;-)
> 
> Possibly. Why not?

You mean other than issues of space, battery consumption and heat 
dissipation?

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