Recent content by NoelDP

I got 'decanted' from my flat last year, for mould deepclean and redec. Filled a 4yd skip with old PC stuff and other crap. Lots more room in the flat when I got back!... But no spares for PC things. It needed doing! Kept only what I was currently using and an old Compaq Win 3.11 'portable'...

They look like fun - but also money-pits! I can't help thinking that the company isn't going to live long enough to back up claims of upgradeability. They'll be making a lot of money from people who made bad choices at the start, and few will be repeat customers!

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll have to do some trawling, as the link fails on transfer to the UK, but it's at least a possible!

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I suspect that I'll go for a mini-PC.... And a laptop🤪 My last mini didn't go well, dying after 30 mins or so. Amazon refunded without a problem. https://amzn.eu/d/0hAtgopI Or Amazon.co.uk That would leave some serious headroom for the laptop and printer😁...

Wow! That's quite a machine! I certainly don't need that much power, but it does give me something to think about and work with... And still leaves cash for the printer and accessories. I could happily lose the gaming aspects, and come down to an i7 (maybe even an i5) I remember buying my...

I can't be arsed to build another one.. I was doing that in the 90s/00s, there's not any budget benefits to it nowadays as far as I can see. I might think about custom-built, if they're not raking too much in.

OK, so I recently retired. Let's assume I have up to £5K to spend. I've been out of the market for so long that it's almost like I've never had to buy a PC before🙄 I am NOT going to sit at a desk and game (back problems) but I don't want to watch TV or streaming on a laptop screen The...

Heh! I may have spoken too soon... IT now appears that a lot of the problems were somehow caused by a mobile 4G router! Rebooting that caused the email problems to disappear!!! I HAVE NO IDEA WHY! suggestions welcomed! 😁

I've got exactly the same results with this as a client had with KB5074109 - all my POP accounts in the Insider build are 'fecked', to put it politely. MS have screwed the pooch, again1