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<>BTW the CPU seems to be 200 MHz, not 180 MHz. But it still gets only <>about 80 BogoMIPS, pretty slow. The winchip is about slow as pents come. Pentium with MMX at 180 is much better. <I heard last night that Netpliance is making modifications so that people <can no longer do this... they are apparently losing a LOT of money selling <the machines, having expected to recoup it in the service charges... No one has seen one and there is commentary both ways from Netplience. <Can someone confirm this... and maybe confirm the change that they <have done (which I understand is simply removal of the cable connector <for the drive). Removing(not putting it in really) the connector is about all they could do with a production stream like that otherwise the cost to manufacture and all goes out the window. To me that does not constitute hacker proofing as putting one in is trivial and I might get to put in in the right side of the board even. In any case it would take a major effort to change something in production more than trivially, I've had to push that at DEC and elsewhere, it was hell. The other half os the current hacker words for it is that it's a great box even as is and they'd give their mother one. Loosing that good will to a few thousand hacked units at most would be costly in the long term. They have gotten a lot of VERY positive free press and it could become negative fast if they tried something too nasty. <Oh, and supposedly back-ordered units will have the mod... We shall see, I'm waiting. Allison