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Cheers PM – just picked mine up – nice one!
EDIT: Also in mine (Romford) were doing £10 off £30 spend (on anything) in association with this offer. I got 24 x 330ml Estrella Galicia for £21.20.
Hope the freebies are nice!
Oh yeah I see those cut-outs now. I’m confused as well. On mine, the connectors for the WWAN card are smaller than the WiFi card (or felt that way, they were a b@stard to clip on!). I do wonder then whether it is a common chassis for several models and your particular one doesn’t support WWAN? Confusing what the half mini PCI slot (And the antenna wires) are for if the WiFi card is somewhere else.
September 19, 2018 at 12:03 pm in reply to: What does anyone think of a Lenovo X200s notebook #26088We’ve got an X220 here (with SSD upgrade) – still a great machine, and I have an X201 (SSD upgrade) that I leave at my mums. The X201 (guessing close to the 200) is absolutely fine for web and office use. The screen is a little more square than the X220, performance on paper not as good but in practice you can’t tell the difference forr normal stuff – all very quick. Typing on them i is a treat – fantastic keyboards. They are getting older though and so you should factor that in to what you are prepared to pay.
SSDs with the NGFF (I think) form factor can physically fit as they are they physically the same size with the same Edge connectors. To confuse things more loads of laptop screw are “M2” nothing to do with the SSD of the same name. I’m sure that “WWAN” slot must be for a WWAN card on account of the label and the antenna cables there. I suppose it is possible that the port is only active on certain models but since the cables are there seems unlikely.
A word of warning on whitelisting, on my Elitebook only certain WWAN cards are supported sue to whitelisting. The one I bought was sold as a HP840 G1 WWAN card. It is physically a Huawei MU736, but shows up in device manager as:
HP hs3110 HSPA+ Moble Broadband Device
So guessing it must have crippled firmware or something – would well be the case with Dell’s as well. Does your laptop have a SIM card slot?
After another dream I’ve bought The Best Of The Specials, this time it was a recollection of a night that actually happened, my mates birthday and 15th anniversary with his mrs. Both are fans of two tone/ska so lots of that was played. Friggin dreams, costing me money!
Now we’re talking – properly in Blacklion territory there mate! Saw them in 1979/1980 and on their 30 year reunion in 2009 which rather embarassingly (they only ever made two albums!) is still going, even though there’s only three of the original 7 left.
I’ll try and have a proper play at the weekend but looks promising. Just rebooted it ad in the BIOS advanced settings there is a specific option for “Enable M2 SSD Boot” – my BIOS (on the machine when I bought it) is:
L71 ver 01.44 (12/04/2018)
In my case wondering if the M2 drive I bought would be an improvemet (read/write wise) over the Samsung Evo 860 “normal” SSD – possibly not.
Incidently – with the WWAN installed (it found a driver online) I disabled WiFi and both Three and Vodafone popped in tolife with zero config. I think there are 4G versions of the WWAN card, but they are much more expensive and I think they don’t cover all UK 4G bands. Sitting indoors getting anout 12 down and 4 up on 3G which is fine.
Not sure Dave – My M2 is the backup drive at the moment – although thinking about it booting would be nice, keep the system image on the big SSD (so other way round to what I have now). Will see if I can find out.
Just to finish this off, when fitting an M2 SSD card (£27 for a 120GB) I noticed there’s a WWLAN port next to it. Googling I found that the slim slot is accessible when you flip the battery out. Took a punt on a seond hand WWAN card of ebay for a tenner – works lovely. Only 3G but tested with my 3 and vodafone SIMs AOK. I’ll almost certainly never need it – if I take this anywhere I’ll tether off my phone if there’s no WiFi – but for a tenner why not!
Hello Bob – firstly all the best with your treatment and get well soon!
Not sure about these USB decks, “normal” turntables always usedto needa dedicated input on an amp or to go through a pre amp firts as the levels were different – may not be the case with these newer devices but worth checking. Don’t use a sound bar but imagine if you can feed an optical out from the TV to the sound bar it would be simplest.
Ah never mind – might still have a punt if I see it at a decent price. Electric pumps everything seems to come out lager-cold which is too coldfor an IPA (for me anyway). They’ve got Atlantic IPA in one of the pubs I use and it is ice cold – the Greene King os on a hand pump and just right (cool but not cold). All personal but as bad as a warm lager for me.
Is that out of a hand pump or electric Dave – saw it on an Electric pump in the Wetherspoons at Viictoria Station – it was £5.60! Not seen it on a hand pump but would definitely try it if I found somewhere doing it. Probably the nicest of these “craft beers” although you probably can’t call it that now the amount they shift of it.
I run a Pi Zero-W and a nano USB (sandisk ultra fit) works fine via a normal OTG cable (from 99p on ebay). I’ve had a few micro SDs go bad – all Sandisks (although Ibought mostly that brand). Bit of a chore if they are in warranty as they have to go back to the Czech republic (neither quick or free)
They had that Punk IPA when I went to Croatia on Easyjet last year which surprised me – quite pleasant. Our big tescos sells it, seems to be getting quite mainstream now.
Was expecting Nikon on Pentax discounts 🙂 CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) A few pubs here do it….the Railway in Hornchurch for exmple (Ember Inns – don’tthink all their local pubs do it though). Worth looking out for though if you drink in thosepubs enough. Round here £25 membership would mean you break even at around 65 – 70 pints a year.
Actually got more SSDs than I need now – shame as that is crazy cheap.
xDSL routers were discussed on another thread recently. I tried two (Homehub 5 and Asus RT-AC68U and had problems with both), but there are reliable one-box solutions now – I know Dave is happy with Drayteks and I think the TP-Links and Netgears have good reviews.
The advantage of the OR modem is that you can stick any router behind it and tinker as much as you like without resetting the line. Saying all of that if/when I change next I’ll be looking at a one box xDSL solution, ideally Asus if they sort their act out.
I think I’d really miss a fully configurable third party router now.
Cheers Dave will put thison my “must do list” – Steak and beer – what’s not to like!
They definitely do it (snobbery) in the Taproom Dave! If anyone is over this side you should pop in – never seen anything quite like it. My other half calls it the “Smelly Dog” because they let dogs in (often wet and smelly) but not kids (some amusing borderline gestapo “no kids” signs), but I can’t stand more than a brace in there (not because of the beer) but because it is full of people who are more bothered about the beer/who brewed it than the company and it is not like a jolly local at all. I must try your boozer in Holland as I love the country and far too long since I went there.
Coors I think (Doombar)?To be honest it still tastes the same tome so happy to keep supping. There is a very interesting pub near me (The Upminster Tap Room) – they only serve beer from micro-brewereies, there is no bar, the guvnor/guvorness wander round and ask what you want (beers change regularly), then go and pour them in a room round the back (that you can see through a glass partition). It is an interesting place to go, they sell beer, cider, wine, spirits but no lager (not even local stuff) which I think is childish. Their best selling beer was “Dark Star” from Sussex – but they have stopped it as they were bought by Fullers. It is a quirky one-off sort of place but still think this beer snobbery is a bit pathetic to be honest.
Dave 30 years or so ago used to go to Cornwall a lot (we had a training centre at Porth Curno) for courses and an annual Beano. One of the lecturers down there took us to some really old off-the-beaten-track pubs where they all had this beer -trying desperately to remember the brewer – that was just served out of a tap in the keg rather than a hand pump. The different beers were just called “the weak one”, “the medium one” and “the strong one”. The weak one wasn’t that wweak either. Wish I could remember who it was that brewed it (Still do for all I know) – Sharp’s is stuck in my head but I think that is because of Doombar – think it was a one syllabul name though.
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