"Many times I thought, 'This is not going to work.' We put it through tests simulating a typhoon, and the initial mock-ups leaked all over the place".
Ministers from Germany and France, as well as other commissioners in the EC, had criticised the proposed settlement - which also became the source of fierce opposition from complainants to the original investigation, who said Almunia had not put it through "market testing" to examine its effects on their businesses.
Chip industry analysts are eager to get their hands on machines with the Crusoe processor and put it through performance tests, mainly because Transmeta has been unclear about how the chip will perform on conventional benchmarking tests.
We put it through consumer tests, asked them what they wanted.
"I suppose it might be a good idea to ping them to at least find out if they've put it through puncture tests and other safety protocols," he adds.
Laptop got its hands on an early-production demo unit with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 60GB hard drive, and Windows XP and put it through some initial testing.
"My basic premise," Wetherbee said, "is that you take a capable microörganism like Klebsiella and you put it through the gruelling test of being exposed to a broad spectrum of antibiotics and it will eventually defeat your efforts, as this one did".
Locally, KUSA/9News was brave enough to take on one of their advertisers and put it through a truth test that didn't go so well for ad backers.
SanDisk sent me a loaner, and I put it through some real-world tests to evaluate its performance against other SD cards.
The inspector, Christopher J. Monteleon, was in the cockpit when the airline got its first such plane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, and put it through a series of test flights.
We'll have more on the new iMac in a proper review once I've had a chance to put it through more thorough day-to-day testing.
