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The Duke wrote:

Hate these crap games breaking up the season.

Love these crap games breaking up an even crapper season ?

 

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Just to finish this off, arrived and let it run through its updates (came with W8.1). Then fitted a spare  SSD in place of the spinner (fiddly but have had worse!), and put the spinner in a caddy in place of the DVD. Installed W10 from USB, all Windows and driver updates done, and it runs lovely.

Just as a note – as I had read when I clean installed Windows 10, it activated automatically from the embedded (W8.1 ) key. So although the official free update and the later assistive update have officially eneded, worth a try to upgrade an older windows version without buying a new license – seems like MS are still happy to unofficially update gratis.

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OneDrive has got a bit better now with Files On Demand. Still not as good as with 8.1 but better than the “all or nothing” that came in with 10.

I don’t use the app at all, just upload files or folders via Chrome browser. Slow and clunky but safe. Its a backup and sharing tool for me and not a sync tool. Its a long way from perfect but very cheap and so far very stable/reliable.

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PlaneMan wrote:

Don’t forget for videos you can stick them on YouTube and keep them private, apart from people you share a link with. ?

Good shout PM

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Tippon wrote:

Thanks both ? I was thinking of the free storage, but if it’s not suitable for music and videos etc., it’s no good to me.

Its suitable but not the slickest – all my Music is on there as are my photos – they are one Flickr and google too. Video I’ve not bothered with videos (aside from my home videos which are on there with photos). Other Videos are kept on an HDD hanging off my router and a media PC (mirrored). If i lost both of those could get them all back and its all no-personal stuff.

I think the max file size on OneDrive is 10GB – big enough for most videos, but my video HDDs are 3TB. It (OneDrive) was unlimited for a short period and then cut back to 1TB.

OneDrive was a lot better with 8.1 than 10 – although they have bought a bit of the functionality back. Its still a very economic way to get 1TB/year for 5 people (if you need 5) – even at full price. Its AOK for music, and personal photos/videos.

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I agree – the only advantage for me (365) is the 1TB OneDrive – an me and mine are heavy OneDrive users.

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I’ve used a few of the Office 2016 after good advice on here – all AOK. Just bought a 365 “Home” 5 user version but not installed or activated it yet. It sounds too good to be true (5 users, lifetime, 1TB each) but as it was £7 I thought worth a punt. The first account is fixed but you can share it with 4 users using their own MS account.

Its this one and I’ll probably be giving it a go this weekend.

By the way for a few people who just want Word (and don’t like or need full blown Office, ribbon and all) I have installed an older version of AbiWord, which has doen the trick. There is one tweak to set it to save in “doc” format by default but after that it feels like tradional MS word.

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Cheers PM – have a couple of spare SSDs and replacing doesn’t look too tricky…..

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All true chaps but this laptop will sit on a table with a mouse connected 99.9% of the time and not go anywhere – anyone got an idea if it is worth £273 or not! Ta!!

 

 

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Ed I should have added she has used my youngest’s 17″ laptop, as well as my work 15″ and personal 12″ – she definitely wants the 17″. It will be pretty static, and will be used with a mouse. Its definitely the right form factor, just concerned about the specs really. I’ve got a spare W10 key but might see if I can upgrade it (from 8.1) gratis first – seems to be possible for most still.

By the way I had a Miix for a while – really well made bit of kit. Was one of those things I bought but didn’t need (there’s a lot of ’em!). I re-sold it on ebay for what I paid for it, but it was a very nice bit of kit. Actually felt like a laptop when the tablet was docked, unlike most (including the Surface).

Thanks for the reply.

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How does this one look – 20% off in the Amazon Warehouse sale today

Ta

EDIT: There was only one available and I ordered it at £272 – free returns but if its a definite no-no I can cancel

 

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Prime is a subscription service that gives you several things (like streaming video and music) but in this case it gives you free (usually next day) delivery on items. The same item is normally available at the same price to non-prime customers, but the delivery is only free (and slower) if the total order (on Amazon-supplied items, not Marketplace) is >=£20.

Sometimes there are Prime Early Access deals, where prime members get first dibs on a time/volume limited offer, and occasionally a prime-only offer.

I would think for your case, you can buy it and get free delivery as long as you add something to take it to £20. If you add the item to your basket and go to checkout it should tell you (how much more you need to spend for free delivery).

EDIT: Duke beat me to it!

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yeah you wonder how they (FB) earn on that (messenger) though – the main FB has ads galore, the messenger app is clean and lean….maybe not forever…..or maybe it just gets more people to register an FB account even if its just for messenger.

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Facebook Messenger is my weapon of choice – someone on MM tipped me off – might be you Duke – but it is great, so much so that I have dropped skype completely.

I don’t like Facebook but the messenger facility is superb – you can run it in a browser (https://www.messenger.com) but the phone app is lean (unlike the full facebook app) and works great for text messaging, voice and video calls.

I have a mate in the states who uses Vonage for VOIP, which gives him a Romford land line number in Colorado. Not free but not wildly expensive and better for older relatives who can ring him from a normal phone using a normal number.

 

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I generally keep Ccleaner around, don’t use the registry cleaner but the general cleaner seems to work quicker the the Windows Disk Cleanup and the tool to overwrite “empty” file space (to prevent file recovery of stuff you want to stay deleted) is quite handy.

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Good Info – thanks Drezha

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Cheers Duke yeah at my gym it amazes me what people will pay (on top of their sub) for boot-camp style training (mine is aDavid Lloyd).

He is set on boxing at the minute – his mate went pro but had to pack it in due to a retina problem, and went in to this game – he then got my boy a bit of part time work which has increased and that’s how we got here.

Will have a look a Square Space – new one one me – might be a good short term solution – cheers.

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Thank you both – on the website front he has no web-creation experience (I’m not far behind him) – but does use Facebook and Linked-in. In fact on Linked-in he already has bundles of contacts from his recruitment job who are mainly young-ish men/women with money and who might facny boxing without the blood and sweat of a proper boxing gym.

And that’s who he’s after – actual boxers will goto a boxing gym, but a lot of people (especially rich ones) seem to want to do the training but in a more sanitised environment.

Be interested to know if anyone has done a Facebook page for a business (as a sole trader) – and if so any tips etc.

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Can’t go wrong with London Pride – Dave not sure where you will be in London but if you find yourself East-ish of the City then The Grapes on Narrow Street (between Wapping and Canary Wharf) is worth a visit – it is ancient, tiny and does really nice beer (not that many buut all good). Best to go when its quieter if you can then you can have a drink looking at the river and not be surrounded by pinstripes.

 

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I make you right PM – 3 of 4 OK for me (as per other thread) – the porter a write off though. I know what you mean about trying too hard. Goes for a lot of this craft beer I think – just because you can doesn’t mean you should!

I think the IPA is my preference of the 4, and all worth a try at that price. The citrus thing seems very common, and I don’t quite get it – not just this deal but a lot of these small craft breweries. Was in Colorado a couple of years ago and craft beer is absolutely huge there – around 300 breweries just round Denver and the outskirts. One I tried there came with a slice of orange in it – not for me! I think the smaller breweries making more traditional beer are more up my street, and luckily plenty of them in Essex and especially Kent.

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