If money was no object

For fun I might go for the one that Dave referenced, http://tinyurl.com/ybkb2lfn 

Though its power might be a bit of a limitation as a full replacement. Apart from that like Dave I don’t have a need for a rip snorting behemoth. I might restart some slide and negative copying so something with a little more oomph for image editing could find a use and replace my now nearly 8 year old PC. Though I might well be stopped from looking before I found something to really grab my interest.

If i could justify it id get a another dell xps13. I had the xsp1330 back in the day and loved it, super powerful for the day, with discreet gpu it was a we monster, with one issue, sub 1h battery life. That’s how i ended up with a £1600 thinkpad x200t, with the super effiant su9400 (iirc) CPU, for its time no one was getting 8h of battery.

The major drawback to getting the think pad is the keyboard and nipple. Love them both. Nothing is like them. I don’t even thin the new ones are as good. Totally spoilt.

The new dell xps 13, just looks the business, and is around £1100 spec depending. Though i know I’ll know I’ll always want the TP keyboard, no matter how good, pretty or expensive the machine, ill never be 100% satisfied.

O know have a cheap referb thinkpad, it does all i need from a windows lappy, and had the keyboard.

So money no object would me getting dell to but a vintage TP keyboard in the new dell xps13.

Not interest it a gaming laptop, due to battery drain, learnt that lesson the expensive way, cost me about £1000, for a laptop that got about 3 months use as my primary lappy.

im not a of the new ‘softer’ swift, hopefully the sport jazzes it up a bit, as i really like the outgoing swift sport 3 door. I think it’s a better and less common, thinking persons mini.

When i seen the new swift launch i was saddened, much like the new fiesta. Something about the fiesta, it seems to flip flop from good to bad looking, each cycle. It’s far from bad looking, i just think the out going I’m some of its sportier trims, preferably in 3 door, is brilliant  (i dont like small cars with 5, even though i hate loving with a 3 door) though ford have a lot of work to do on their interiors and enfotainment systems, ford sync sucks.

The only ford car id put up their enfotainment is a first at 150/200, as id be buying it for its fun. Anything else they do would be a deal breaker. I like the kuga, but i just couldn’t. Toyota are in a similar place, though their Rav4 hydrid is awfully close to the top of my list, in the summer.

Also going to look into what motobility has to offer. Now wife has her badge. Start that search about easter.

Or aren’t entitled to the full allowance due to the change in rules from DLA to PIP. Under the DLA rules I’d get the full amount, PIP I get standard mobility.

@ricedg eventually yes, took her beat part of 3 years. She got it about a month or two after i got the current car.

I’ve not looked to see if motability is the best for us, but it will be looked into.

She got pip, it had changes from the old time she got accepted. Her issue was, to much wrong with her.

As she was under a handful of different consultants for different things, her application always lapsed before they all got back, due to hols, sickness, slowness etc.

Eventually one of the Macmillan ladies at the hospital sorted it our for her. It’s a good job she wasn’t reliant on it, as she would of been f#+ked. The system is broken, especially when you know of people on it, that trully don’t need it.

The only use I’ve found for the badge, is free tolls.other than that, we haven’t used it in two years. I drop her at whatever door, then drive to the safest most further corner of any car park. I don’t trust other drivers, and their doors, and hate people that abandon trollies.

The trolley ditchers rank higher than Isis on my hate radar. Id execute the f#+kers.

If money were no object I’d build a new house and install a PoE system to get rid of all the stupid wall warts that litter the house!