Thread: What computer should I buy?

You seem to have quite an obsession with poofs .

Incidentally, I am more than a little dyslexic and find the colour change by Wasp most helpful when reading his posts.


Well thanks Troy .

I don't know why the default colouring here is that pale white . They have a white in the palette which is much stronger and clearer .

Originally Posted by Troy

Come clean and admit you have found a much cheaper piece of crap in Tesco,s and will take another chance on it as your not really finically Appled.

Fixed that one for you

Well, paying way over the odds for some shiny fucking bauble aimed squarely at the retards and wankers market is one option. Another is to buy a bog standard laptop and put some version of Linux on it. Somebody said Ubuntu, which is very straightforward to install and run. Another, if boot up time and speed is a concern, is CrunchBang, which is very fast. Of course, doing this requires some very small ability to read and type (which buying a Mac presumably obviates) so perhaps that may be an insurmountable hurdle.

I bought one of those acer all in ones, second hand, off a guy in Bangkok a while back. I got it home and the thing kept overheating and turning itself off.

The fan inside was obviously bust, that and he'd upgraded the ram.

All i did was put my standing fan behind it, thus giving a cool PC and nads. A stroke of genius I thought

Gosh, Dan, for a moment I imagined you, Tax and Butterfly had formed a condominium nick. You lot are clearly quite suited and I'm sure would make fine dining companions.

Terry, what you should do as a matter course if you continue to spend significant time in Bangkok is to get your laptop cleaned regularly. When I returned to Blighty mine cut out again and I took it to a service place for diagnosis. They confirmed the computer had shut itself down because the fan was clogged up with a sticky tar like substance and couldn't cool the computer. They assumed I was a heavy smoker and it was nicotine. My wife forbids smoking in the house and so it clearly wasn't that. In fact, it was no more than the product of two years of whirring away in the polluted, dusty Bangkok air exacerbated by the humidity and one's sweaty fingers.

That experience led me to thinking a Mac mini in a SSD configuration and separate key board with a fully integrated OS not tainted by Windows shite, making everything run so hot, would be a good way to go.



I have ditched the idea of a Macbook and returned to that option.

Being an incipient Mactard moron I shall leave Ubumtoo, CrustyFang et al to all you geeks and techie wizards who like that sort of thing.

Suggest you buy one with a "Black and White," only screen...

It still surprises me how discussions about ANYTHING on any forum slide so quickly into personal abuse .

Indeed, and one only tries to be helpful.

Expect they're just bored.

Maybe it's the way in which you choose to express your thoughts ?




" would you please desist from this fucking gay colour keyboard shite "

" it transpires over 10 fucking thousand machines have been fucked is it not reasonable to expect .. proclaimed experts here should be fucking aware of that? "

" A bit poofy too but there it is."



Wasp

to quote
go to where they said it
select/highlight the text and
press q-Quote,
and it turns up in the message reply box

Originally Posted by Wasp

Maybe it's the way in which you choose to express your thoughts ?

What computer did you buy?

blueto quote : go to where they said it : select/highlight the text and press q-Quote,
and it turns up in the message reply box


Didn't know that blue .

Very handy .



And yes ....... what did you buy ?

Can the OP just get on with buying something; I hate these threads that go on and on with the OP never buying anything...

Act in haste, repent at leisure.

So, do you think it'll be a bad rainy season Boo?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Can the OP just get on with buying something; I hate these threads that go on and on with the OP never buying anything...

Consider yourself fortunate - I think it was Scampy who had a thread running for 3 YEARS or something on TV about what laptop he should buy!

Originally Posted by thegent

I have ditched the idea of a Macbook and returned to that option.

You remind me a lot of my Missus, she sees a pair of shoes she likes, then puts them back, walks around every other shoe shop in the mall and returns to buy the first pair she set eyes on.

The thing is, the Mini is due to be replaced imminently. The current model has the older Ivy Bridge chip, the previous Wifi iteration and a slow graphics capability and the delay in the replacement has been attributed to Intel's postponement in supplying the new Broadwell chip. This is a further improvement to the Haswell being thinner, smaller and requiring even less power to a degree that a fan will not be required. The clocking speed may well be wound down too but performance will not be sacrificed because of gains in efficiency.

SSD is currently expensive and I wouldn't wish to invest now when the model I might buy is expected to be superseded within weeks. The updating of the Airs with the Haswell chip, latest Wifi and better graphics, seems to have passed the Mini by which is a bore since I would be quite content with those improvements.

Still, patience is a virtue.

Whatever are you muttering on about thegent? The Ivy-bridge series CPU isn't old enough to wear long trousers, let alone replace with a newer version.

Stop reading those silly magazines and stick with what you've got for a little longer. Any problems with speed will be down to your bad housekeeping and very little to do with the hardware.

Troy, one thing I have learned in this process is that the development by Intel of their processing chips has been exponential in the past 5 years. Durability and reliability is vey much linked to heat and it's management. By reducing power etc we are now in the realm of laptops no longer requiring fans. The move to SSD will further enhance the process.

This strikes me as quite logical and spending money on older technology, inherently unreliable albeit commensurately cheaper, is a waste.