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Yea i can believe that by reading the comments lol... pitty though i wish id known... im not a big gamer to be honest.... only bought the ps4 for gt sport, its my only game lol (not gamed since ps2 days and the occasional bash on my sons xbox one s) need a good realistic flight sim and some more car games and maybe crash bandicoot lol.
 
Got a new hyper portable laptop/tablet/transformer thing for Christmas. It's mainly for just doing stuff that's annoying on a phone, so word processing or battery heavy video stuff. Nothing fancy, figured 30gb drive would be enough given on my last one I used 25gb of 500gb in 5 years. Anyway got it all up to date..had 9 gb free, windows 10 update pops up and it's 10 gb..and all I've installed is virus scan,Netflix,Google music and office. Thankfully it has an SD card slot so no prizes for guessing what's on the way, tbf 33 quid for 128gb ain't bad.
 
StevenRB45 said:
Got a new hyper portable laptop/tablet/transformer thing for Christmas. It's mainly for just doing stuff that's annoying on a phone, so word processing or battery heavy video stuff. Nothing fancy, figured 30gb drive would be enough given on my last one I used 25gb of 500gb in 5 years. Anyway got it all up to date..had 9 gb free, windows 10 update pops up and it's 10 gb..and all I've installed is virus scan,Netflix,Google music and office. Thankfully it has an SD card slot so no prizes for guessing what's on the way, tbf 33 quid for 128gb ain't bad.
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Keep all your files mainly on SkyDrive so their stored online and safe if the device breaks or is stolen. And it’s also accessible from other computers anytime you need it :)
 
Last year I looked at convertible laptops and struggled to find one with a proper hard drive in it. I needed it for training purposes, so need the programs and files on the machine as cannot guarantee an internet connection. Eventually found an HP at a reasonable price with a 500Gb drive.

Quite a few years ago I bought an Acer laptop with what was then a reasonable 80Gb drive and Windows Vista (gives an idea of time). The hard drive was partitioned into two 40Gb drives. 13 months on, just out of warranty, the Vista updates became too big for the 40Gb partition. Couldn't re-size the partitions, as that broke the boot record, as there's a recovery hidden partition, that will only recover exactly to original state, including partition size. So I had to get a new drive, and find a Vista disk and do a new install. I've always been wary of small drives since and can't get my mind around putting all my files on someone else's server.
 
portland_bill said:
The gutter was just the seam between the roof and side panels. If the one-piece panel curves onto the roof, to join further in from the edge, leaving a gutter would be an extra piece attached, to add expense. Can't see any manufacturer doing that just to keep a few drips off their loyal customers.
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from memory ....:rolleyes:
my Tipo's has a firm plastic strip (concealed under door frame) that did similar(y)
 
SB1500 said:
Keep all your files mainly on SkyDrive so their stored online and safe if the device breaks or is stolen. And it’s also accessible from other computers anytime you need it :)
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It's brand new so I don't have any files on it! I do have a Google drive I use for my phone which it is linked to but in all honesty I doubt this is going to get used for much other than playing 10 year old games and web browsing. It had 13gb free out of the box but all the updates reduced that to 9 pretty quickly.

Anyway 128gb card on the way, I'm hoping never to have to upgrade it again, if anything it's probably overkill but it was in boxing day sale. As I understand it the new Windows update isn't actually 10gb..it just creates a copy of itself during the upgrade and takes up to 2 operating systems worth of space.
 
SB1500 said:
Keep all your files mainly on SkyDrive so their stored online and safe if the device breaks or is stolen. And it’s also accessible from other computers anytime you need it :)
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As long as you have internet access, it doesn't get hacked, MS don't put the price up or sell it off (remember Freeserve?) etc.
Yes I'm a cynical old sod, but I think we are generating a new "dark age" where lots of information could be lost for ever. Anything important that I can't easily recreate has at least two backups on different media.

Robert G8RPI.
 
Was up all night due to being full of cold (happy New year!). Finally got sleep at 5am, my mobile goes off at 7am (personal not work)..It's someone from work who should know better asking questions they should know the answer to. Don't normally mind helping out but when I'm being woken up from my 2 hours sleep to be asked questions I can answer off the top head..that makes me grumpy..
 
One thing I don't mind about working over the festive period is how quiet the roads are during normal commuting times. It has a been a nice quiet couple of days but this morning the commuters were back on the road and I couldn't help but notice an obvious divide.

There are three types of driver on the roads in the morning on January 2nd.

1/ Autopilots. 80-90% of the speed limit, brake before indicating (if they remember to at all), nonchalantly pootling along thinking about the next eight to twelve hours of their lives; probably wishing every weekend was a bank holiday and possibly still a bit hung over.

2/ Angry drivers. Who resent their life choices so much they have to take it out on their commute and other road users. If you are traveling at less than 140% of the speed limit expect to be tailgated until there is a gap almost big enough but you will have to brake to avoid a side swipe as they impatiently fail to overtake. Horrible dirty liveried vehicles with mucky headlights so they look like they are permanently on high beam. Roundabout and junction negotiation that makes the Kamikaze look like IAM instructors. Poundland energy drink in the cup holder and two empties from today on the passenger side floor, shouting into a mobile phone because they are doing 70mph (through a village) in third gear AND THEY CAN'T HEAR NUFFINK OVER THE MOTOR!!!

3/ People who are just trying to get to or from work, driving to the speed limits, diligently and considerately observing the various laws on the road. Looking around wondering what everyone else's problem is.
 
Eklipze3k said:
Banged my alloy off of a traffic island in Sainsburys car park last night, bloody thing was near invisible in the dark :(
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Put in a claim for a new wheel from Sainsbury's pointing out it was poorly illuminated and/or poorly marked.

We had a pothole on a private car park where I used to work and someone put in a claim for wheel and suspension damage. Even though it was a 5mph speed limit because it was private property the limit was advisory only not enforceable. So even with CCTV clearly showing the chap was doing at least 40mph the firm still had to pay out.
 
Liquid Knight II said:
Put in a claim for a new wheel from Sainsbury's pointing out it was poorly illuminated and/or poorly marked.

We had a pothole on a private car park where I used to work and someone put in a claim for wheel and suspension damage. Even though it was a 5mph speed limit because it was private property the limit was advisory only not enforceable. So even with CCTV clearly showing the chap was doing at least 40mph the firm still had to pay out.
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I suspect you'll find they didn't have to pay out, and merely settled without prejudice to liability because its sometimes easier and cheaper. However a pothole is also significantly different to a stationary object.

If you tried running hitting a stationary object to court you'd be laughed out I suspect. Hardly negligence on the land owner part.
 
This mirror is cursed..

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However Citroens are made of Lego.. so looks ok on the face of it

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However although I picked up the missing bits and glued it together..we didn't get away Scot free this time

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Ah well...it moves about electrically, the indicator works and I know if it finally gives up the struggle to stay on the car a whole one painted is 270 quid..
 
LED headlights are great, very bright and clear even in very poor conditions, however everyone else on the road thinks you have you main beams on so lots of people keep flashing me all the time.
 
What was actually so bad about the lights on my Panda / most older cars that promoted the development and adoption of these new extremely blinding white ones?

In a friends old 2011 Focus Titanium I remember his high beam being useless! Not sure if it was the bulbs they’d fitted or the car but it still wasn’t dangerously bad as far as I could tell?
 
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