Under what usage context does this help? (Genuinely curious.)

That's because Gnome already removed the configuration panel ...

What does fancy cornering technology have to do with top speed?

Same thing from the KDE Konsole maintainer who says "Well I don't see the value in multi-row tabs or supporting system beep for myself, so too bad for you."

The 787 program started in 2003 ... hardly short term!

free range whooooosh!

Never been to Japan, eh? In my wife's parents' house, to get from the bathroom to the shower means a trip down the hall, through the living room, through the kitchen, through the laundry room, and finally the all-tile shower/deep tub room.

I know, because I did. If you try to make it go really fast, it will place a LOT of strain on your wrist. We had the one that lit up, pretty cool toy.

Got one recently, and it is truly awful. Screen, buttons, optical drive, cooling fan, drivers, usb ports, brightness controls, wifi, battery, you name it, it has a problem. Resume from sleep and brightness controls are broken. Reboot and wifi is missing. Totally power off and restart, usb port rejects the mouse. Fan pulses up and down every 2 seconds. Suddenly can't read the battery, and it will soon emergency shut down, unless rebooting to fix that asap. Optical drive randomly pops open occasionally. Rejects discs 1/3 of the time. Pops open after closing with no disc 1/3 of the time. Screen is bright gray instead of black (I knew it was a cheap screen, but dear goodness I was not expecting that bright of a gray.) Left trackpad button has to be smashed to work. There is no Win7 graphics driver on the official website for the exact model (but you can find one with web search.) I do like the feel of the keyboard though. Check the official Lenovo forums to see more carnage.

Somewhere I saw ~900 Eur for the 512GB model, which is nearly USD$1200

That's the point, that someone may turn the crash into a root.

That's not a high-level language.

They already implied that these are salvaged 570 parts for a limited holiday production run. If you snag one with a free game you want, not a bad deal. Think carefully if you might go SLI in the future, since they'll be hard to find later.