Helping the score was the accurate mousing abilities, comfortable design, and its decent ability to handle the not-so-hardcore gamers needs all the while.

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If Colin Powell is right, both Romney and Huntsman will have to stop trying so hard to sound like hardcore right-wingers in the general election.

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Even so, she added that hardcore Chinese gamers are aware of all the games launched globally and often can find a way to play them even before their official launch in China.

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As the desktop comes back into view, that target finds a home in the desktop wallpaper, which darkens to match the hardcore motif that power setting so clearly requires.

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So even in the specs race, Samsung may disappoint the hardcore of analyst support.

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And while we've seen books hiding devices before, Ando's attention to detail might just raise the eyebrows of hardcore custom PC and gaming fans alike: he went so far as to gut and emboss a 135-year-old copy of Harper's New Monthly Magazine to match Cyan's reference tome as closely as possible.

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It's hard to see this as the preferred hardcore setup, but we're told it's configurable, so we'll try and see what else is on offer.

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We like awesome new software as much as the next guy, but Google's been moving so fast lately that they've created a near constant culture of obsolescence anxiety among the hardcore user base -- and in turn, that leads to paralysis at the sales counter.

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