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Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac I wrote recently about the shameful squalor of my previous “setup” — basically a borrowed PC laptop perched on a pile of junk — and my effort to build something ...

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When I was first setting up the new machine, I logged into it with my Microsoft account and it asked if I wanted to transfer over my settings and frequently used apps from a previous PC. Since at the ...

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