Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

misskool

GDB2222 wrote: »

Hi, I need some help, please.

My son is starting uni in a week's time, and he needs an Apple Mac (cos he's doing photography and all those arty types need Macs). I'm horrified that a £500 laptop becomes £1,000 when an Apple label is stuck on it. Anyway, where does he pick one up a bit more cheaply? He needs a Macbook Pro by the look of things, so that's over £1k even after a 10% student discount.

There's a free (or discounted ipod) with macbooks at the moment if you're a student and the student discount.

That's about it really. He can try to get a second hand one or one from the refurb store if really tight.

I'm not going to start a PC v Mac on here but if you price up the same spec on a PC laptop with the software, it's not that much more expensive. And you pay a premium for the brand name (as you do with all products).

Chris2685

carolt wrote: »

This is an extension of this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2110023

which, at 123 pages and counting, has been deemed too unwieldy.

lol, shouldn't you be nearly on your 4th thread by now?

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

He needs a Macbook Pro by the look of things, so that's over £1k even after a 10% student discount.

I'm not sure what the difference would be for a photography student, but DD2, who is Fine Art, has worked on a Mac at college and then continued with the saved Photoshop image at home on my PC.

I don't want to get into the Mac/PC debate either, but she informed me cheerfully tonight that she still intends to swap between the two when she goes to uni.

PasturesNew

I've spent/wasted the WHOLE day, trying to think up something to theoretically sell online... it's not for real. It's a stupid assignment. Now, the thing is, the assignment is actually doing the whole business plan and all the hardware/payment gateways etc costings and spec and putting together the business plan and a whole powerpoint presentation to present to potential investors.

All of that would be a doddle.... if only I could just dream up !!!!!! to sell online. I have absolutely ZERO interest in EVER selling anything online to anybody. Zero. So to magically dream up something out of thin air is leaving me completely cold.

Oh ... and I have to think it up tonight as I still have to write all of that lot - and another assignment on website usability ... and buy some printer ink and hope my printer works and print it out and bind it ... and faff about with stuff .... and hand it in Monday morning.



I hate anything that doesn't give me a choice... "just pick anything" doesn't work for me. I need specific choices!

I could pick anything: flog socks, downloads, books, services ... anything! But ... I can't pick. I'm rubbish at picking things.

LydiaJ

Does it help if I pick for you? Do the first thing you thought of, which is socks.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Does it help if I pick for you? Do the first thing you thought of, which is socks.

Except that was a joke.

Thing is, this business plan malarky involves sections on why it'd be a great business, market segmentation etc ... and if I pick something I can't believe in, then I won't have the drive to do a good job of it.

I really want something that's actually a good idea ... and something I can actually believe in myself. Else it all just seems 100% pointless and will drag.

morag1202

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've spent/wasted the WHOLE day, trying to think up something to theoretically sell online... it's not for real. It's a stupid assignment. Now, the thing is, the assignment is actually doing the whole business plan and all the hardware/payment gateways etc costings and spec and putting together the business plan and a whole powerpoint presentation to present to potential investors.

All of that would be a doddle.... if only I could just dream up !!!!!! to sell online. I have absolutely ZERO interest in EVER selling anything online to anybody. Zero. So to magically dream up something out of thin air is leaving me completely cold.

Oh ... and I have to think it up tonight as I still have to write all of that lot - and another assignment on website usability ... and buy some printer ink and hope my printer works and print it out and bind it ... and faff about with stuff .... and hand it in Monday morning.



I hate anything that doesn't give me a choice... "just pick anything" doesn't work for me. I need specific choices!

I could pick anything: flog socks, downloads, books, services ... anything! But ... I can't pick. I'm rubbish at picking things.

Range of driftwood photo frames? Bloke called, I think, Tull sells them in your area and his site could be improved on.

PasturesNew

morag1202 wrote: »

Range of driftwood photo frames? Bloke called, I think, Tull sells them in your area and his site could be improved on.

I've always had a secret hankering to make those myself. So easy ....

morag1202

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always had a secret hankering to make those myself. So easy ....

....as so expensive!

Bought one of these as a wedding present, Devon not Cornwall, but I was close

misskool

Sell craft items/niche hobby items/lifestyle choice items like magic gardening gloves with prepared compost tubs that people will buy for just for cachet.

I've got blight and 5 kilos of green tomatoes. Crossing my fingers for the rest still outside. It's like tomato graveyard at the moment.