S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

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On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

We bought a few of these recently and have been happy with them.

We bought some of them new from Dell a few years ago too, and they seem
to have lasted well, I use one of them every day in the office.

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=DellLatitudeD630


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On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

We bought a few of these recently and have been happy with them.

We bought some of them new from Dell a few years ago too, and they seem
to have lasted well, I use one of them every day in the office.

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=DellLatitudeD630

chokes aka Bentham, cnuts, cnuts, absolute cnuts, spammers, general
abusers of personal data, buyers up of insolvent companies purely to
obtain further personal data for spamming by phone, fax and email, MD a
previously disqualified director. Did I say they were cnuts?

Now owners of Morgan Computer previously mentioned in the standalone
printer thread, beware all.
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http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk

Unrepentant email and fax spammers, completely ignore all requests to
stop. Do you want to give a firm like this your money?

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En el artículo , Toby
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http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk

Unrepentant email and fax spammers, completely ignore all requests to
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I have two machines from Morgan - very good service, no spam, very cheap
(under £120 each).

On 07/02/2013 05:54, Geoff Pearson wrote:

"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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En el artículo , Toby
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http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk

Unrepentant email and fax spammers, completely ignore all requests to
stop. Do you want to give a firm like this your money?

Just bounce them back if you don't want them any more.

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I have two machines from Morgan - very good service, no spam, very cheap
(under £120 each).

They are IJT under another guise - compare the websites.

I haven't had any particular bother from them but then I do have fairly
sophisticated mail filters so I don't care if they spam me or not.

Most fax span I got was selling dayglo donkey jackets and work boots or
get rich kwik schemes. Past tense as the fax hasn't been switched on for
nearly a decade now. I gave up accepting faxes when Demon discontinued
its free service - they were all spam by then anyway.


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Just bounce them back if you don't want them any more.

How do you bounce a fax?

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On 07/02/2013 05:54, Geoff Pearson wrote:

"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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En el artículo , Toby
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http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk

Unrepentant email and fax spammers, completely ignore all requests to
stop. Do you want to give a firm like this your money?

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I have two machines from Morgan - very good service, no spam, very cheap
(under £120 each).

Morgan as was were fine... that is not to say the new owners of the name
will continue in the same tradition.

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On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

We bought a few of these recently and have been happy with them.

We bought some of them new from Dell a few years ago too, and they seem to
have lasted well, I use one of them every day in the office.

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=DellLatitudeD630


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On Feb 7, 12:00*am, Toby wrote:
On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

We bought a few of these recently and have been happy with them.

We bought some of them new from Dell a few years ago too, and they seem
to have lasted well, I use one of them every day in the office.

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=DellLatitudeD630

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Iv`e got a Morgan sourced D630 around, U.S. keyoard " & @ are wrong
way round , but battery will still do couple of hours ,guessing they
might be popular with people who still need a serial port. See
occasional marketing mail but nothing extreme. Aware it could have
been different with Morgan had there been problems.

Even CPC can do you an Asus for 310, or tenner less for Celeron
processor with Win7

http://cpc.farnell.com/asus/x54c-sx0...7hp/dp/SB05078

Cheers
Adam

On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

There are a hellofalot in our local S/H PC retailer.

What's died? about 50% are fixable, although sometimes not at an
effective cost.

ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.


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On 07/02/13 01:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.

They're all cheap these days.
I paid £2,300 for my first laptop - Pentium 150, 11 inch screen.
You can get a top of the range Macbook Pro for that now.

On 07/02/13 01:09, pcb1962 wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.

They're all cheap these days.
I paid £2,300 for my first laptop - Pentium 150, 11 inch screen.
You can get a top of the range Macbook Pro for that now.

cheap to me is sub £300 if possible


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On 07/02/13 01:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:09, pcb1962 wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.

They're all cheap these days.
I paid £2,300 for my first laptop - Pentium 150, 11 inch screen.
You can get a top of the range Macbook Pro for that now.

cheap to me is sub £300 if possible

How about this: http://www.ebuyer.com/398944-zoostorm-laptop-7873-9040

No OS, that's up to you. My youngest has had a zoostorm running Ubuntu
for about 3 years now, still going strong, Only issue with it is the
sound output is a bit quiet, I expect they've sorted that by now.

On 07/02/13 01:45, pcb1962 wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:09, pcb1962 wrote:
On 07/02/13 01:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.

They're all cheap these days.
I paid £2,300 for my first laptop - Pentium 150, 11 inch screen.
You can get a top of the range Macbook Pro for that now.

cheap to me is sub £300 if possible

How about this: http://www.ebuyer.com/398944-zoostorm-laptop-7873-9040

No OS, that's up to you. My youngest has had a zoostorm running Ubuntu
for about 3 years now, still going strong, Only issue with it is the
sound output is a bit quiet, I expect they've sorted that by now.

that's not a bad deal. About the same as this desktop in overall crunch
terms.

Sadly the 'intel integrated graphics' are a well known linux DOG and
getting decent video speeds with flash etc is not easy.,




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On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

There are a hellofalot in our local S/H PC retailer.

What's died? about 50% are fixable, although sometimes not at an
effective cost.

Not sure, butr she lives in Liege and would describe the car she likes
by its colour


ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.



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On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

How dead is it?

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

How bog standard, and how cheap?

Secondhand or end of line units from the likes of Morgan, eBuyer or Cex
are probably worth a look at but you should decide what she wants to use
it for. Cheap laptops struggle playing games or video editing...

Always do your homework and check the reviews of anything you consider
buying to find out what annoying features it has.

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/c/4...tops-Netbooks/

ISTR they have a 10% off sale if you put in the right code.

A couple of years back one of Tesco/Sainsbury can't recall which one had
a deal on a rather good model end of line that was £100 below the online
price so it is worth scouting round for bargains - especially at this
time of year and in the current economic climate.

Avoid Sony unless you want to pay extra and have to struggle with their
"improved" customised hardware and its drivers. My newish laptop is a
Samsung RF711 on Win7 which is pretty good performance but not cheap.

I have an aversion to even numbered Windows releases.

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On 06/02/2013 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

How dead is it?

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

How bog standard, and how cheap?

Secondhand or end of line units from the likes of Morgan, eBuyer or Cex
are probably worth a look at but you should decide what she wants to
use it for. Cheap laptops struggle playing games or video editing...

Always do your homework and check the reviews of anything you consider
buying to find out what annoying features it has.

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/c/4...tops-Netbooks/

ISTR they have a 10% off sale if you put in the right code.

A couple of years back one of Tesco/Sainsbury can't recall which one
had a deal on a rather good model end of line that was £100 below the
online price

Pink Acer Aspire Ones

Yes - I got one of those for £139 inc delivery

That's the sort of bargain I'm hoping for

so it is worth scouting round for bargains - especially at this time of
year and in the current economic climate.

Avoid Sony unless you want to pay extra and have to struggle with their
"improved" customised hardware and its drivers. My newish laptop is a
Samsung RF711 on Win7 which is pretty good performance but not cheap.

I have an aversion to even numbered Windows releases.


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On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/
they make them in Portchester Hants
so if something fails you can take it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

[g]

On 07/02/13 22:38, george - dicegeorge wrote:
On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/
they make them in Portchester Hants
so if something fails you can take it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

[g]



just an aside. I managed to successfully install linux mint MAYA on my
acer aspire 1510 though there were some failures to detect hardware
requiring manual loading of drivers... BUT don't attempt to install such
a pretty face on half a gig or RAM.

It runs like a dog swapping and thrashing and there's no disk caching
cos there's no spare RAM. :-)

It took 5 hours to install, like that.


Off to up it to 2GB tomorrow :-)

But really for a basic browsing/ e-reading/ watch a video sort of laptop
its superb apart from that.


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On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/
they make them in Portchester Hants
so if something fails you can take it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

But hardly "Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap"

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On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:38:02 +0000, george - dicegeorge wrote:

On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/
they make them in Portchester Hants so if something fails you can take
it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

[g]

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On 08/02/2013 08:36, The Nomad wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:38:02 +0000, george - dicegeorge wrote:

On 06/02/13 23:06, geoff wrote:

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/
they make them in Portchester Hants so if something fails you can take
it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

[g]

AOL

Avpx


+1

(though I only buy bits there - and mostly because they have a local
branch with internet prices)

Andy

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 23:06:13 +0000, just as I was about to take a herb,
geoff disturbed my reverie and wrote:


S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ Box shifters, have a few similar
sites, used them 3 times and would again.
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 23:06:13 +0000, just as I was about to take a herb,
geoff disturbed my reverie and wrote:


S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ Box shifters, have a few similar
sites, used them 3 times and would again.

That's looking a bit more like it


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