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Earlier this month, the UK's six biggest ISPs agreed to support the record industry with their fight against copyright theft by issuing letters to people using P2P (peer to peer) sites for downloading. We at ITACS support the record industry in their educational campaign and have linked up with www.ifpi.org.

There are a couple of updates to discuss this month. First of all there?s the Vista downgrade rights issue I talked about last month. I had bought a Lenovo laptop from Ingram Micro identical to one I?d had a couple of weeks earlier.

The large glossy black lid is a fingerprint magnet, but keep it clean and it looks great. The interior is all black, and even though it looks plasticky, it doesn't feel overtly like a budget model.

The answer, according to Asus, lies not in buying more graphics cards, but in sending the image via USB instead.