Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Vic
> Now now ladies this is a LUG, not a whores handbag club :-P Aw, crap. Am I in the wrong place again? Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Victor Churchill
For GMail users I recommend installing Mail Goggles from the GMail labs. Then you have to answer a few hard sums if you want to post after a certain time of the evening. Except that as my wife has observed, geeky people seem to be able to still do mental arithmetic even after they have had enough

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Grody
Now now ladies this is a LUG, not a whores handbag club :-P Sean Gibbins wrote: >On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said: >> >>> It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat. >> I enjoy a drink as much as most oth

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread hantslug
On Saturday 14 January 2012 18:46:37 Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said: > >> It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat. > > > > I enjoy a drink as much as most other people, but I take

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:46:37 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said: > Utter bollocks maybe Keith, but hardly offensive. Yes, fair comment. I would maintain that we all should take responsibility for what we say online, regardless of our self-imposed condition. I've made many acerbic, poorly-conside

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 14/01/12 18:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said: It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat. I enjoy a drink as much as most other people, but I take responsibility for my actions. You, on the other hand, are asking othe

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +, pet...@gmail.com said: >It was late. Give me a break! Had enuf that night to sink a boat. I enjoy a drink as much as most other people, but I take responsibility for my actions. You, on the other hand, are asking others to make allowances for the fact that yo

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On Jan 14, 2012 10:57 AM, "Ian Grody" wrote: > > On Saturday 14 January 2012 10:09:44 t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: > > > AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430 > > > > > > > > > Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) & > > > a > > > Radeon 65xx series GPU. These t

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Grody
On Saturday 14 January 2012 10:09:44 t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: > > AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430 > > > > > > Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) & > > a > > Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400 > > mobile GPU > > is q

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-14 Thread timb
> AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430 > > > Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) & > a > Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400 mobile > GPU > is quite nice. > > The ASUS is dual core, 4 threads per-core @2.4GHz & can turbo upto 3GHz. >

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?

2012-01-14 Thread alan c
On 14/01/12 08:45, Ian Grody wrote: > they had fedora, mandriva and Ubuntu live CDs for those few of us that > wanted to poke Come on, folks, let's make the 'few of us' into a few more? -- alan cocks -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mail

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Grody
I've found novatech in portsmouth that a few of their floor staff are versed on Linux. Two years ago when I bought one their branded no-name laptops they had fedora, mandriva and Ubuntu live CDs for those few of us that wanted to poke. They won't let you use your own "firestick" etc. In case it