
Mr.
"Brim full of Asha" - Classic, thanks for the smile.
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.
22 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Oct 2007
Wow, a 15% decline in sales for Acer almost counts as a landslide doesn't it? Mind you I think the wave they rode of cheap laptops has worn a bit thin. I'm coming across a lot of their machines that are physically falling apart, and most of them are well inside the lifespan that people are expecting from their machines. This is leading them to other companies when it comes to renewal.
The ever present adage of you get what you pay for does generally hold true, and in terms of economics, investing that extra £100 for a same spec, better build quality device can pay dividends down the line.
Your trade in has to be a laptop not desktop. Apart from being able to power on, it also has to have no significant damage to case,hinge, keyboard or screen and have correct power supply and battery.
Given all that, unless it's a complete relic, you'd probably get more than £50 for it on Ebay, then go and buy the same model for another £50 less than these 2 slop shops are selling it for.
Move on nothing to see here.
They could have bought Nvidia and developed their own rival to AMD's Fusion for less than that. If RW's profit figure of $178m is right, even if they can increase that to $250m, that's still 30 years before they get their investment back.
Was there a special offer on frontal lobotomies at Intel HQ recently?
While I probably wouldn't want to be living next door to them, the levels are probably more annoying than disturbingly loud. Even 47db in blow normal conversation levels which can be 50-70db. Rainfall, a breeze or a refrigerator is rated at 50 db. Levels measured at 30db would not be much above background levels, although obviously night time is when things are quieter.
Maybe the neighbours are just not getting any action themselves.
I'm already working on the toilet pad, which will display:
* a selection of ebooks, including basic plumbing techniques
* carefully selected toilet humour
* a flashing message that says "NOW WASH YOUR HANDS!"
IT icon because I reckon I could make SH{icon} loads
£16 for an album!
Oh yeah because we've all been crying out for a way in which we can pay double for our music.
And what a brilliant idea to change from having all our music pre-loaded and easily searchable to splitting it up on to separate, losable, breakable cards.
Can't wait for all the extras like artwork which will be very useful on a device with no screen.
Absolute winner!
Mine's the one with empty bottle of scotch.
As "twatdangler" can be applied to a vast number of people fronting the IT industry, can I suggest that when I vent my spleen towards them here, that I be given a suitable twatdangling icon to visually enhance my eloquent prose. Mind you the one I'm using now isn't too wide of the mark as it look a bit like a muff on a string!
Trouble is, where is there to go for disgruntled Ebayers to peddle their wares on a national scale? When you give a company free reign over a sector, eventually they are going to start taking liberties. Yes there are the likes of Amazon, but that's only for current retail items. What we need is some big hitter who offers a realistic alternative that covers the second user market and beyond. Maybe with Android unleashed on the world, Google has an eye on releasing something like Gmarket to the masses. Seems like a prime segment to place ads to me, which I would be more than happy to put up with if the transaction costs were slashed.