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Best stuff you ever bought
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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In no particular order... started because I was waiting for an eBay auction to end lol Titano Tower Fan (so good I bought two)  Sony Playstation  Worms  Lenovo Yoga tablet (still one of the best tablets around)  Acer Aspire Netbook (awesome little machine)  Dell XPS 13 (took years for a challenger to the above Acer on my terms)  Nikon Coolpix L820  Duracell 15 minute charger (great for cameras and kids toys)  Babyliss ear, eyebrows and nose trimmer (£8 delivered, buy it!)  30w LED, only draws 7  Panasonic 5 CD Changer (with 'used once in a blue moon' tape deck!)  Lego Tumbler  Lego Batmobile Ultimate yada yada yada  Sony Xperia Pro (because I'd cry if I had to Whatsapp with a touchscreen)  Fablon-type material (because there's a small window above my door and the morons switch lights on at all hours)  Sony wireless headphones (kills moron noise)  Sndisk Sansa Fuze MP3 player (battery lasts for over a month even today, SD slot)  Almost all of the above is still in use 
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Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:33 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Kindle Voyage (laughably dear, but that flush screen and weight difference are key to my happiness with it)  Razorpit (honestly, you could make your own, but sharp razor goodness for months on end)  LG 20X external DVD writer (between a netbook, crappy laptop drive and an Ultrabook, this thing has seen some use)  Amazon Fire Stick (sideloading FTW...)  Storage boxes (forcing me to be organised for my own good. Pens, blank CDs, mini tool kit...) 
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Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:25 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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Difficult... From a technology poing of view, probably my Amiga A1200 (and the A500 + A590 HD before it). I wish I still had them. AmigaDOS, Apple Mac System and MS-DOS/Windows in a single box and full multi tasking, at a time when the Mac was still task-switching and the PC only had co-operative multi-tasking under Windows... Being able to copy and paste between a Mac application and Windows in 1988? Jobs and Gates only really managed that with OS X and Virtual PC over a decade later.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:54 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Not really, my first computer was a '93 LC 630 DOS Compatible, which not only allowed shared folders between the Mac OS and Windows 3.11, but a shared clipboard and a TV card that you could capture from into Quicktime. I used to cut my own fan music videos with it.  In fact, you could fast switch between the environments too.
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Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:31 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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Yes, but that had a complete x86 PC on a daughter board inside, ISTR. The Amiga did it all in software emulation.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:52 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:57 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Acorn's RISC PCs could have a x86 in the second processor slot, providing it was on the proper card. You could run Windows and RISC OS at the same time. There was even software that could translate Windows calls to RISC OS calls, in an attempt (which apparently worked, but was very slow) to make Windows apps seem more native.
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Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:28 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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'91 VW Passat 2.0CL
I got nearly 60mpg over 150,000 miles out of it (2L petrol engine), it was completely reliable, comfortable and cost me next to nothing in servicing and repairs.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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