Believe it or not, it's very easy to drive.

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And it's not a short drive in what is in effect an underground city.

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As for Sony, it hasn't offered an official explanation just yet, but all indications are that it's a bug and not an intentional blocking of hard drive upgrades -- at least we hope it is.

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The U410, meanwhile, is roughly the same size as the U845, but it comes standard with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 610 GPU. Also, the U410's hard drive spins at 7, 200RPM by default, though it's not coupled with an SSD for faster boot times.

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