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LEVEL UP YOUR LAPTOP

 that you have an old laptop lying around. Suspend your disbelief and imagine further for a moment, against all odds, that you find its power supply, too. As you draw a deep breath and hit the (rather dirty) power button, the machine whirrs into life and a legacy BIOS logo appears on the screen. As the lengthy boot process ensues, the screen flickers and the hard drive chugs in an increasingly agitated fashion. A fan, reacting to the arduous work the CPU below is doing, spins faster and faster, emitting an unsettling whine. Exactly where our imaginary tale goes from here is up to you, but if you have an old laptop that seems to

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