Upgrading my Trinity-powered HTPC is also high on my to-do list, and will give me a chance to do some benchmark comparisons, since switching the OS will be the only variable on that machine.

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Like a loose slot machine, the infinite scroll gives users fast access to variable rewards.

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Calculating the addition of the number 2 to a variable, for example, can generate 27 instructions in machine code, many of them repetitive.

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Variable airflow and oscillation is controlled either by remote or on the front of the machine.

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