It also comes with a whopping 80-gigabyte hard drive, which is enough to store up to 100 hours of video.

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While everyone knows about the old stand-bys for back-ups, such as using CDRs or a Zip drive to store your information, or even e-mailing a file to yourself, new technology makes backing up even easier.

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