Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

silvercar wrote: »

I don't need portability, but the price difference seems to be small. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and an acer screen that I can plug into the laptop if I want to work in the study.

Challenge, if you have time, this is the favoured laptop at the moment:
http://www.ebuyer.com/276388-toshiba-satellite-pro-c660-255-laptop-psc1me-00q00ken?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

What would a similar spec desktop cost?

New favoured product is this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/288874-toshiba-satellite-pro-c660-2f8-laptop-psc1me-01g00ken

ebuyer has it at 369(less 5.50 quidco) and ebuyerexpress on ebay at 349. Is there is a difference in service?
cant find a desktop any cheaper with similar spec.

Generali

Paris-Rubaix is going well this year. They're getting into the cobbles.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

I have although my favourite race of the year is on today so I've been a bit distracted on the sports front:

http://www.letour.fr/indexPRX_us.html

That's on at the moment, on the red button of British Eurosport if anyone else is interested. May turn over and watch that, but its also MotoGP from Losail so may watch that too. It's a pants day here so have postponed a trip to the National Gallery that we were planning.

Have just had a look at the Paris-Roubais starting list and noticed that Jack Bauer is competing. It's good to know that there's a life after saving the world.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's on at the moment, on the red button of British Eurosport if anyone else is interested. May turn over and watch that, but its also MotoGP from Losail so may watch that too. It's a pants day here so have postponed a trip to the National Gallery that we were planning.

Have just had a look at the Paris-Roubais starting list and noticed that Jack Bauer is competing. It's good to know that there's a life after saving the world.

They're on the cobbles now.

Do you mean Steve Bauer? He's a former White Jersey winner in the Tour de France.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

They're on the cobbles now.

Do you mean Steve Bauer? He's a former White Jersey winner in the Tour de France.

It says Jack Bauer on the start list here: http://www.letour.fr/2012/PRX/RIDERS/us/partants.html
He's a kiwi apparently and races for GARMIN. Now I can't see a Steve Bauer on the start list. I wonder if the authorities have been watching a bit too much 24:D.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

It says Jack Bauer on the start list here: http://www.letour.fr/2012/PRX/RIDERS/us/partants.html
He's a kiwi apparently and races for GARMIN. Now I can't see a Steve Bauer on the start list. I wonder if the authorities have been watching a bit too much 24:D.

According to Wiki Steve Bauer is a Director Sportif now, kinda like being a football manager only with cycling not a ball.

Generali

Big crash out front. The cobbles are looking greasy.

Masomnia

silvercar wrote: »

New favoured product is this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/288874-toshiba-satellite-pro-c660-2f8-laptop-psc1me-01g00ken

ebuyer has it at 369(less 5.50 quidco) and ebuyerexpress on ebay at 349. Is there is a difference in service?
cant find a desktop any cheaper with similar spec.

Looks pretty good. I've bought from ebuyer before with no problems, no idea about ebuyerexpress.

My Compaq, which I got around 2 years ago, is starting to look iffy. Think it's the motherboard, so I may be requiring ebuyers services again soon

purch

Generali wrote: »

I know there are loads of stick insects in Sydney.

You must have seen the missus when we were in Syders.

She invented size zero :eek:

purch

silvercar wrote: »

New favoured product is this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/288874-toshiba-satellite-pro-c660-2f8-laptop-psc1me-01g00ken

Note: As it is a "ello tosh got a Toshiba" you will need to spend about 3 days removing all the unneeded "bloatware" that they preload :eek: