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He seems unconcerned by the fact the player will take 3 - 4 minutes to boot (!) if you fitted a 20Gb drive and filled it with music.

I got the impression that that happened only on the first time you started; once it'd done it's 'review' it didn't need to do it again. But that might be fact-free optimism.

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