And you can get yours from here. There are umpteen ways to customize it, and add features, and the size is even adjustable from 100% to 400% in steps.
I learned something today from watching its Clock speed. The CPU has an 'automatic transmission'! Well, not exactly, but it works a lot like the three speed automatic transmission in an older car. It automatically changes its speed and voltage depending on how much demand or load is being placed on it. When things are quiet and you're not multitasking or surfing the web looking for things you shouldn't, it powers down to around 986 Megahertz. If things get a little busier, it will speed up and power up more, to around 1,800 or so, and if you're surfing the web and answering mail and generally loading it up, then it goes right up to full speed of 2,900 to keep all the canaries flying in there.....
and that's the kind of stuff they don't explain at the store while you're getting all dewy-eyed and goofy over the latest and greatest all-in-ones and notebooks and those thumb-typers pads.
You don't have to know what's under the hood to drive the car, but it sure helps when it quits on you in the middle of the night a hundred miles from the nearest garage. Computers aren't much different. They like to be understood too.
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