"It makes you feel like life is so short that spending it doing things you don't want to be doing is just a waste of time, " Kim said.

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So if the internal fan seems annoyingly loud, or you run into other problems that a quick tech-support call can't resolve, don't waste lots of time on the phone getting fixes particularly if they involve waiting for parts.

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