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...durability, having been drop tested from 30 in. off the ground at every conceivable angle. That means if you fumble the 2530p and drop it at airport security (as I've done before, dimpling the corners of two MacBooks), an accelerometer senses the plunge and locks the hard drive into place, protecting your data...
...only thing cooler than that would be to have a bulletproof hard drive that is unfazed by any drop. And that pretty much describes the drive on the model I've been testing (which comes out in October): the 2530p is outfitted with a spiffy new "solid-state" drive (SSD) that costs $650 more than the old-fashioned spinning hard drives used by our forefathers (making this model likely to cost about $2,500). With no moving parts, SSDs boot up and respond quicker, run quieter and give off less heat, all of which improves battery power. Indeed, this laptop...
After hours of driving one day, we stopped on a bridge over the Tigris for a car wash, where masked youths, looking like bandits, had drawn water out of the cloudy current by hose. They seemed friendly enough, but as our stationary convoy began attracting curious eyes, our bodyguards said it was time to move. "We are in the war," Sami reminded us, his grin a mix of humor and utter seriousness in the rearview mirror. In a second, we were off again, dust flying, as the muffled voice of the lead driver came in over the radios...
...garage was all a suburbanite could hope for. The more affluent left it behind over the years for wealthier counties like Douglas, which is where Eng's Republican opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap on. In the late 1980s, the area was home to just a few hundred residents; today more than 100,000 live in Highlands Ranch...
...There will be a gas line," he says. "Once the producers get over the idea they're not going to control our gas fields like they did our oil fields, they'll get involved. There are hundreds of billions in profit to be made. The economics are going to drive...