On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

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Republican Tom McClintock, who is running behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, surprised his party by saying the state has no right to limit slot machines or to ask for money from Indian casinos, which are on sovereign land.

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On the downside, they found the system to be "somewhat noisy, " and the slot-loading optical drives could limit upgradeability further on down the line.

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Storage is capped at 16GB, but since all of these have a microSD slot, 16GB or 32GB isn't really a hard limit.

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But the league places a limit on foreign players, so it was no sure thing that Anzhi would still have a slot for Willian had he waited.

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