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Laptop advice please
I'm looking at either a Dell Inspiron 1525, with the 4Meg of Ram, or the Toshiba Satellite Pro s300 11g. It will be used for surfing the web, word processing etc.. and not for heavy gaming use, but will be used for simple games, e.g. Luxor. Which would you recommend? Thanks for the advice.
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freeview advice?
hi, I'd like a Freeview box for my wee telly in the bedroom - someone gave me one a while back which worked for about a day and then stopped - don't know why! - anyway, if I get another Freeview box, do I need a special type of ariel for it? The ariel i have at present is just a regular top-of-the-telly type thing. I hope…
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Cheapest laptop with HDMI
Hi there Am thinking of replacing my desktop with a laptop. Currently the desktop is sitting in the corner of my living room, connected directly to an audiovisual receiver and from there to my TV. I'm outputting via DVI to the AVR. Does anyone know of any good, preferably cheap laptops that have HDMI output? I've seen the…
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TomTom Home not running.
Hi all, I really need some help. Basically I bought a TomTom ONE last week. Bought USA maps from TomTom last night. Tried to download onto SD card via my little Asus netbook :o , not enough memory to download on my netbook, so download stopped and a message saying get more memory appeared. Tomtom Home runs fine (on…
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Best PVR under £80 ?
Please can you help. After watching a recording of X-Factor on my sister VCR. Decided to buy her a PVR for Christmas. Can anybody recommend one which has a decent amount of storage, reliable etc for under about £80. Thanks
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Don't understand the basics of technology...
:confused: I'm completely confused. I want to buy some type of MP4 player. I've posted a thread about this sort of thing before but am none the wiser. I've seen a cheap MP4 player in one store, but then how do you choose? and if some of your favourite podcasts are on I Tunes.....then you need the apple I Pod don't you? I…
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Help with camera memory cards please.
Hi I have just bought this camera (Samsung Digimax i7 Digital Camera) for my son for Christmas and was wondering what is the best SD card to buy. He wants to take movies so I really need the card that can cope with that, and that can do a really good job. Also it says that you can watch a movie in the PMP mode..... What's…
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can't post pics anymore, just links.
Hiya, Until recently I was able to cut and paste pictures into my posts on here. Now all that happens is that a link is posted. Does anyone know how I can correct this? Incidentally, I now keep getting warning triangles at the bottom left of the screen telling me there are errors. This happens with other websites too and…
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Laptop with dedicated graphics card for around £400?
Hi All, My Acer laptop is now on its last legs and so I am looking to buy a new laptop next week. I normally use the laptops to listen to music, watch DVDs, use the MS office package but also some light gaming (COD, FM,left for dead etc) I am looking for a laptop that will last me at least 2 years so has to be decent build…
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SD Camcorder
Hi, I am looking for an SD camcorder and found one in Argos:- http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5633111/c_1/1|category_root|Photography|10198049/c_2/2|cat_10198049|Camcorders|10198106.htm I havent had a camcorder before so not very good which one to buy. Any feedback on the above cam? Thanks M
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itunes expert anyone?
I had itunes on my desktop, including all my songs and videos. All my songs are also on my ipod. I have now got rid of my laptop and bought myself a laptop. I am now concerned that if i sync my ipod to my laptop it will empty it as i have no songs on my new itunes on my laptop. Can anyone tell me how I can add new songs to…
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annoying chimes
Hi My sister has a Samsung laptop with XP pro as its operating system. Whilst surfing , listening to music or just downloading stuff there are these annoying chimes playing away in the background. The only way she can stop them is by muting the sound completely. I've gone to Control Panel and sound & audio and I cannot…
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help finding usb drivers for a MSI MS 6741 motherboard
Hi all Wondering if anyone could help me find the usb drivers for a MSI MS 6741 Ver 1 motherboard. My friends pc (running XP) has been formatted because of a virus, its all up and running again apart from the fact the usb's don't work. I've tried the MSI website but it runs an auto update and nothing comes up for the usb…
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Laptop Not Powering-Up
Hi there, I have a toshiba laptop which died on me yesterday, I suspected it was a fault with the battery as there is definately powered getting to it via cable, it just wont switch on. After speaking to staff at local computer shop they suggested removing the battery altogether and then try to power it up, this has worked…
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Advice on a Playstation 3....
At present they are around £290 for 2/3 games. Does anyone have an idea as to what will happen to the price after Christmas? thanks
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No sound from tv-5.1 system - cable missing?
No sound from tv-5.1 system - cable missing? Hi All! Stupid Q of the day! Actually started to connect the new LG42PG6000 to the Philips LX8000SA, which we used on old CRT at previous house. We've not set it up here, at new house, 'till we got the LG. Everything works well EXCEPT can't get sound from tv to the surround…
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Whats best for photography software...
Hi there, I have a mac book at the moment with aperture, screen isn't really big enough for me, would like to be able to play a few odd games to (civilisation etc) what would you recommend? I am pref looking at mac's maybe an imac but what would you all suggest? :beer:
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The Sims 2 for PC
Not sure where this fits but heres hoping My youngest spent his pocket money on a copy of Sims 2 for use on PC from a charity shop. When he tried to install it a code was required from the games manual, which was missing. I've seen these before, a long string of letters and numbers Does anyone out there have either the…
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help cant log on
Hi I have a phillips laptop and now i can not log on . The laptop loads but as my password has numbers 1 and 2 in it and they have stopped working. Any way i can get round this . I did download a password bypass program but during the process this requires me to type 1 in so cant use it. Looking at taking it to a shop…
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Slow on start up help!
My computer is so slow everytime i start it up. It takes ages before i can get online, i think it is loading so many programs on start up and causing it to go slowwwww. Ive got microsoft xp home. Anyone know how i find what is loading up on start up and how to stop it? Thanks
