Black Friday.....what are you tempted to buy?
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Cheap, nice looking Sekonda http://amzn.to/1HzIhc3
Too many keep popping up so I'm waiting for something that is a must-buy. I saw one over the weekend but was too slow as I was sure a better one would come up.
Too many keep popping up so I'm waiting for something that is a must-buy. I saw one over the weekend but was too slow as I was sure a better one would come up.
Hoofy said:
Cheap, nice looking Sekonda http://amzn.to/1HzIhc3
Too many keep popping up so I'm waiting for something that is a must-buy. I saw one over the weekend but was too slow as I was sure a better one would come up.
I've been trying to keep away from the 'what watch for £50' thread (Watches subforum) due to all the deals on there at the moment Too many keep popping up so I'm waiting for something that is a must-buy. I saw one over the weekend but was too slow as I was sure a better one would come up.
And yes HUKD is proving quite expensive...
gregf40 said:
Just picked up a Kindle Fire for a nephew... Kindle Fire for £34.99. Ridiculous deal.
Just noticed the Kids Edition is reduced as well if you have younger children (comes with an indestructible case and Amazon will replace it within 2 years if your kid manages to break it!)Ken Figenus said:
I think its dual core mate as I bought one of these for the daughter for Xmas and its the same N2840 processor. Still a cracking buy if it doesn't have to be pink!
Tesco just emailed me saying they cant fulfil the order for the pink £170 Acer Xmas daughter pressie. That Lenovo is up to £225 now 
Anyone any tips guys - small/cheap/ssd/windows.
Thx
RizzoTheRat said:
Despite the Roomba vs Neato thread I've just bought a Roomba in a "Cyber Monday" deal 
Funny, we've a Neato this past year or so. Its very good and we put it on overnight for the kitchen / snug area of the house as we've two big retrievers who are in each evening.Its very good, however VERY noisy - i've heard quieter lawn mowers! Doesnt waken us (and if it did we'd just run it during the day when we are out), but it makes some racket.
Other than that its great - if the Roomba is as good, and quieter, you're on to a winner.
Ken Figenus said:
Ken Figenus said:
I think its dual core mate as I bought one of these for the daughter for Xmas and its the same N2840 processor. Still a cracking buy if it doesn't have to be pink!
Tesco just emailed me saying they cant fulfil the order for the pink £170 Acer Xmas daughter pressie. That Lenovo is up to £225 now Anyone any tips guys - small/cheap/ssd/windows.
Thx
I'm using the little Lenovo now. Very pleased with it, but one thing i would say is it was a complete pain to upgrade to windows 10, due to the very restrictive 32GB of memory. It doesnt affect me on a day to day basis as i use cloud storage anyway and have a 64gb micro SD slot in it, but windows updates, plus a Windows 10 download, plus a requirement for 10.7GB of free space just doesnt stack up well when you've only 20GB ish free to start with
Ken Figenus said:
I got The Hive too; will fit on weekend but looks nicely made.
Daughter homework lappie needs to be small, SSD, USB3, under £200, no need for optical.
Got £20 off Tesco for cancelling...
That Lenovo S21 can be bought off Argos Ebay..Daughter homework lappie needs to be small, SSD, USB3, under £200, no need for optical.
Got £20 off Tesco for cancelling...
Refurb but fully boxed, £124.99
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-S21E-20-11-6-Inch...
Brand new £179.99 off of Argos Ebay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-S21E-20-11-6-Inch...
Ken Figenus said:
Thanks Daemon. Appreciated mate. E Bay refurb bagged and she can have some Zoella bits now too ?? She owes you a pint!
Cool - glad you got sorted.Be careful about the Win10 update.
It says immediately you can do it, but it then doesnt have the space to install it.
How i got it to work was :-
Dont install ANYTHING on it, if you're going to update to 10 - it reduces the free space.
Dont let it auto download Updates for Windows 8
Download windows 10 to a USB stick (ideally on another computer) from here....
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/...
Run the .exe on the usb stick.
Dont let it do "essential updates".
Do the Win 10 update.
Switch updates back on.
OR - dont update to 10!
Edited by daemon on Friday 4th December 12:37
AC43 said:
Got a Moto X Play for £200 from Clove Technology (plus £20 for a 64Gb micro SIM). The phone is back up to £270 now.
Amazing spec for the price.
Why would anyone pay £600+ for the equivalent iPhone?
We already have 2 at work now because I just can't fault it. I was a little unsure of a 5.5 screen but now I love it, in fact in many ways I prefer it to my personal Sony Z3 and it was more than double the price of the Moto. If the Sony dies I know what I'll be replacing it with.
Great specs, fast, stable, up to date OS with very little bloat. The few Motorola things they add are actually very useful and easy to turn off if you don't like them but I find myself using them a fair bit, especially the voice stuff. I often need to get the phone into tight spaces to take photo's and it lacks a shutter button on the side but I can just shout at it and it takes the photo, hell I can even turn the camera on from the lock screen using the voice commands.
Also supports rapid charging, just charged mine from 20% to full in around an hour! Going to buy (well the company are
) a rapid car charger for my 30 minute each way commute, not that battery life is bad in the first place.poing said:
AC43 said:
Got a Moto X Play for £200 from Clove Technology (plus £20 for a 64Gb micro SIM). The phone is back up to £270 now.
Amazing spec for the price.
Why would anyone pay £600+ for the equivalent iPhone?
We already have 2 at work now because I just can't fault it. I was a little unsure of a 5.5 screen but now I love it, in fact in many ways I prefer it to my personal Sony Z3 and it was more than double the price of the Moto. If the Sony dies I know what I'll be replacing it with.
Great specs, fast, stable, up to date OS with very little bloat. The few Motorola things they add are actually very useful and easy to turn off if you don't like them but I find myself using them a fair bit, especially the voice stuff. I often need to get the phone into tight spaces to take photo's and it lacks a shutter button on the side but I can just shout at it and it takes the photo, hell I can even turn the camera on from the lock screen using the voice commands.
Also supports rapid charging, just charged mine from 20% to full in around an hour! Going to buy (well the company are
) a rapid car charger for my 30 minute each way commute, not that battery life is bad in the first place.RizzoTheRat said:
Same here, but then again I also drive a diesel that's never had an expensive injector failure. I think it's a classic case of those few people who've had problems shout the loudest.
I've upgaded half a dozen machines with absolutely no problems at all. I love Windows 10. HOWEVER, the issue here is that this machine ships with 32GB of disk space, of which you only have access to 21GB.
Let windows do a few updates, stick on a couple of packages and you're down to below 10GB free.
Windows 10 needs 10.7GB free space to do its install, so you're stuffed - and thats assuming you didnt let it do its 4GB download onto your disk in the first place.
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