An overseas assignment sounds glamorous and romantic, but then you find it takes three days to convince the leasing company to hook up the clothes dryer, you can't communicate with the corner butcher and your kids hate their new school and long for their friends.

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One wouldn't exactly expect the MSN TV 2 to try to hook itself up with a DiVX codec or anything.

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You can't run an external digital display, though the mini-VGA connection will let you hook up to a projector to run presentations.

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The final version also won't require a tethered computer, though you'll be able to hook it up to one, in order to further customize the instruments.

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