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Trying to get round various porn laws (Especaly the new UK one). Very clever thing there, dear internet seach king.
Paris, because she knows everything to do with porn.
I purchased an Advent Laptop from their St Georges, Leicester site last August, and despite asking BOTH a business and a reg rep, BOTH stated the lappy I was interested in was an Intel Cord 2 Duo (Needed the 64 bit support, t which when the time is right, I would upgrade the Pista OS to 64 Bit).
Took it home, and found out after asking my 18 year old IT mate in Scotland, that the CPU was NOT 64 bit compatible.
Cue myself visiting the Castle Marina, Nottingham branch (Was much closer to home for me). Explained to the rather helpful chap @ the service desk why I was returning it, and no fuss at all, he offered me the Advent 7203 (Which is 64 bit compatible) or a no fuss refund, though he did prefer me to go back to the St Georges store to rip them a new A*se hole for their mess up.
Anyway, about 3 weeks a go, the lappy totally went belly up on me, with various pre POST booting issues, and BSOD's. Checked the lapppy as far as I could with respect to the HD and everything, and managed to conclude I had a possible BIOS / CPU / Mainboard fault, which I knew would need a major service.
Phoned Tech Guys up (Who so happen to have their main UK repair centre in the old Boots Healthcare International building, on Lenton Lane, Nottingham, close to the old Central TV Studios), and booked the lappy in for a service, also supplying as much info as possible to the fault (Detailed letter what I have done, what I have checked, and pic's of the BSOD). Was told the average turn around of repair is 14 days. Got a call one week later to say the lappy had been fixed, which was quite a speedy turn around.
When I collected the lappy from their Nottingham PCW store, I was very shocked to see what the repair team had done, and the most detailed fault / repair report I have ever seen, which even surprised the PCW staff member I talked to. The LCD Screen, Hinges, Case (Top AND bottom), Keyboard, Memory, Mainboard / CPU, and Hard Drive all got replaced. Only thing that did not get replaced as far as I can tell was the DVD Burner.
Now, I am basically as guilty as the next person here, going into PCW and baiting the staff, but I have to say the Nottingham site have far exceeded my expectations.
Maybe not ALL PCW sites are as crap like St Georges, Leicester or Derby for help etc. Certanaly surprised me.