This connection between size, skills and productivity is not simply due to brainier workers choosing to live in more populous places.

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Modern games can be several gigabytes in size, and without a fast internet connection it can become unfeasible to consider downloading them.

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It will be slick, emotionally engineered, served up in bite-size chunks, and cast with people with little connection to "normal" life who will recite what's expected of them because they want to be on TV.

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The left side of the slate houses a headphone jack, micro-HDMI connection, micro-USB 2.0 and a full-size SD card slot that lets you add up to 128GB of external storage (and theoretically more).

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Some believe a higher resolution display and LTE connection will require Apple to put a larger battery in the device, limiting its ability to shrink the overall size.

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With its travel-size design, TL-MR3020 is compact enough to take on the road and share its 3G Internet connection wherever coverage is available.

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