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pcernie
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Leica goes mirrorless with a stunning new full frame camera | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/photograp ... ra-1307147... Tim Cook: There's a 'massive change' coming to the car industry | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/ ... ry-1307218He'll be claiming it's 'magical' no matter what. And your car's battery life will be sh1t   _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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paulzolo
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I won’t be able to afford it, and my local camera shop will bitch about it being an expensive Panasonic anyway. 
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pcernie
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Barnes & Noble's latest Nook has an edge over Kindle: waterproofing | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-co ... ng-1307293What puts me off those is quite a random issue - apparently it always displays at least the title of a book, if not the page numbers too, in quite a large way. You could be turning pages for quite some time depending on the book and font. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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big_D
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Busy installing my brother-in-law's new notebook, a Lenovo 15.6" reversible ultrabook. Actually very nice, once you get the crapware off of it.
Had to bring it back to my place, as his internet is too slow - about 2mbps. After 2 hours trying to install Office, I gave up (40% complete), plugged it into my network and it finished within 5 minutes.
The same with Windows 10, it was downloaded and installed in under an hour.
It is very quiet as well.
For a "cheap" notebook, it isn't bad, and finding a half decent notebook in the 15.6" - 17" is getting more and more difficult, you either get the really cheap dross for under 400 Euros or you have high end business and gaming notebooks for over 1200 Euros. A sensible, reasonably specified notebook in the middle price category (decent built quality, good components and well designed) is hard.
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pcernie
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 | | | | big_D wrote: Busy installing my brother-in-law's new notebook, a Lenovo 15.6" reversible ultrabook. Actually very nice, once you get the crapware off of it.
Had to bring it back to my place, as his internet is too slow - about 2mbps. After 2 hours trying to install Office, I gave up (40% complete), plugged it into my network and it finished within 5 minutes.
The same with Windows 10, it was downloaded and installed in under an hour.
It is very quiet as well.
For a "cheap" notebook, it isn't bad, and finding a half decent notebook in the 15.6" - 17" is getting more and more difficult, you either get the really cheap dross for under 400 Euros or you have high end business and gaming notebooks for over 1200 Euros. A sensible, reasonably specified notebook in the middle price category (decent built quality, good components and well designed) is hard. | | | | |
Asus apparently do good stuff in that regard. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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pcernie
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Here's Apple's bizarre plan to protect your iPhone screen | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... en-1307395... Facebook search expands to all 2 trillion posts, friend or not | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... ot-1307380... Steve Ballmer disses every hardware manufacturer but Apple and Microsoft | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... le-1307454... YouView is coming to Sony TVs on November 4 | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/televisio ... -4-1307417_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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pcernie
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Noke - The World's First Bluetooth Padlock - buy at Firebox.com http://www.firebox.com/product/7037/Nok ... e&NL_pos=0 That's right, a £60 lock plus delivery that someday won't be charged. Never mind that keyring you already carry about with you, get one of these! _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
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I'm trying to think of a situation where you'd want to unlock a padlock without touching it. I can think of a couple, but in those you'd hardly be able to use a smartphone at the time either.
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pcernie
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BBC confirms that iPlayer is coming to Apple TV (at last) | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/televisio ... t--1307747_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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pcernie
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Yamaha's 'Motobot' can autonomously drive a motorcycle | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... le-1307887Er, why so creepy? _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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paulzolo
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There’s nothing on that that my current 2nd generation Apple TV has that will make me want to switch. I’ll revise that opinion when iPlayer is on it. It seems very odd to power up the PlayStation to use iPlayer - it’s that, or stream it from the iPad to the Apple TV, which frankly is stupid.
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jonbwfc
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Dunno how 'out of the box' your second gen is, but the new one (which I have) has one massive advantage even at launch - DNLA playback, via a free app. The PS4 iPllayer is actually about the best player 'appliance' setup I've seen. Everything else I've tried has been slower and buggier.
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This 'smart fabric' comes with built-in water cooling | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/wearables ... ng-1308385Get it fcuking made, clammy-ass Ulster has a good university who can maybe help! ... Artificial intelligence is hunting for the science we've overlooked | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... ed-1308401  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Tumblr finally adds a long overdue feature | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... re-1308692To my knowledge I've never used Tumblr. ... Microsoft's Surface Book won't surface in the UK until spring 2016 | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-co ... 16-1308678Well done. I wonder how the rest of Europe fares if that's true. ... Oculus VR thinks old-school arcades are the future of gaming | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/oc ... ly-1308659If anything's gonna give you a headache it's those games! ... Chrome will stop supporting XP, Vista and old OS X | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... -x-1308657I've tried Chrome numerous times on various laptops and mobile devices and it was even more of a hog than Firefox. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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