How's your wife?
I built myself a PC. I think I can harvest my HD and the i7 processor and the PSU but the rest is all a bit meh.
Around 500 quid. Going to save up 150 a month and get myself a Christmas Present.
Also, think I might just ask them for a refund instead of a replacement and get something else as I'm not sure was all that keen on the keyboard. Why are they all so shit on laptops these days? Seems to have really got bad since they all switched to those fucking chiclet style keyboards. I hate them. I miss my old Dell Studio 15's keyboard. It was great.
TTHugs.
Might get a Lenovo ThinkPad 13.
Didn't you spend stupid money on your laptop though? You'd expect everything to be good then. It's the lower end of the market, where keyboards used to be alright (the keyboard on the Dell Inspiron I bought ten years ago is better to use than the chiclet ones nowadays) that they've really ruined them.
I've heard that the Thinkpad has the best keyboard in the affordable range so go for that.
I wasn't a fan at first of the XPS15 keyboard either but I love it now.
I thought you got the 13?
Not sure how anyone can like the keyboard on the 15, it's too small for the laptop body. It feels like they've put the keyboard for the 13 inch into it.
No, the 9560. I'd like a bigger Enter button, but apart from that I find it spot on.
I had forgotten how bad it is.
Give me a numpad or give me death.
I switched to Mac nearly five years ago and I'm still running the same one. It has been utterly, utterly flawless in that time. I mean it genuinely has not crashed or malfunctioned once in that time, I'm still amazed by it frankly. It's getting a little sluggish these days but nothing too bad. I am, however, still tempted by a high end Windows laptop. My only concern is the trackpad. Once you're used to a Mac trackpad with multi-touch and gestures, absolutely nothing else gets close. It is so intuitive and so customisable too.
Who the fuck is buying a Chromebook for £800?
That is insane.
Has Brexit fucked laptop prices or something? I saw something saying it had but I dunno if it's true. It is ridiculous how much they cost.
Look at this. $699. The same laptop in the UK is about £800.
Tech (everything) has alwasy been dirt cheap in the US. The exchange rate only exacerbates it.
Yeah, I know. The old rule of thumb with consoles was to take whatever the US price was and just change the currency sign to sterling. But it's a lot worse than that now. Fuck's sake.
Google are launching one next week that is rumoured to range between $1200 and $1750 depending on storage. Wouldn't matter what it was made of, nobody should be paying more than 400 quid for Chrome OS.
It's gotta be something to do with tariffs. Neigh on impossible to purchase a Amazon.com laptop while in the UK. The Amazon.co.uk ones are significantly more expensive.
Tariffs you say? I assume most of these things aren't made in the EU . . .
Computers didn't seem so stupidly expensive any time before.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-due-to-brexit
It's just wholesale energy prices style opportunism. These 'adjustments' only ever go one way.
Probably cheaper to get one of those bargain basement Norwegian flights to New York and stock up on Apple gizmos, if that's your bag, these days. Or fly over here and I'll buy them for you online and save on the VAT (you have to give me the money).
"It might be because of the EU."
It's not. It's literally the opposite.
"Uh, that would happen anyway. Prices always go up."
Right.
http://www.very.co.uk/lenovo-ideapad...utm_content=na
Does that look decent?
Good screen, decent amount of RAM.
Processor is an i5 but it's only 6th gen. Not sure how much of a difference there is between the generations?
Price is good though - £430 with that £50 off offer.
Fucking bastarding thing's gone out of stock already.
Yeah that's a bloody steal mate get on i...oh. Tough luck.
Was definitely a good deal judging by the price here.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-80UV.../dp/B01N2QILNK
Lol.
If it's any consolation, I've heard bad things about Very.
They did it anyway. They'll sell around four.
Starting at a grand. Fuck's sake.
Got to pick a new laptop for work otherwise they'll pick something shit for me. Budget of £1k. What's good? Obviously don't want ANYTHING that is gimmicky shite, I want light, big screen, powerful as fuck with good battery life.
EDIT: Has to be Windows.
Dell XPS 13 are the ones but not sure you’ll be able to get one under a grand. Maybe on Black Friday it’ll dip under, but I doubt that is any use to you.
Apparently Asus Zenbook UX310UA are almost as good, and within the budget.
I'm a twit
True Baz, remember prices are ex-VAT too. However Dell's site is exvat initially so the XPS range is totally out of the budget, which is a shame as the 13 looks amazing (if a bit small?). There's nothing with a 17" screen that isn't complete bobbins.
Lucky though. My work laptop is a Toshiba that predates electricity.
I'm a twit
Not really. First I had an ancient Toshiba piece of plastic shit, then I had a horrific HP touchscreen thing you could barely see the screen because it was so reflective, it broke twice. Now I've got a 5 year old HP which has a CD player and weights a tonne.
Finally I get to pick something nice!
This one: http://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/...035l558015emea
probably fits the bill. I was looking at some multimedia type ones but they always tend to have problems, which I can't be fucked with.
Apple blah blah but am I missing something on this deal? Looks pretty good compared to the price of it everywhere else.
http://www.very.co.uk/apple-macbook-...utm_content=na
Great deal. I'd buy it now.
I’m annoyed I’m being trolled by the Polish Anne Frank and someone who pisses himself but whatever makes you feel better about your lives.