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OK, I've got most of the PC stuff I'll need for Uni, but there are a few things I need.
Primarily:
- Desktop speakers (just 2 satellites, not with subwoofer or anything, but reasonable quality and power)
- TV Card (I've got one at the moment - Hauppauge WinTV - but it can't record very well at all - e.g. can't compress - and the quality isn't fantastic)
- All-In-One Printer/Scanner/Copier (something small - I'm looking at the HP PSC1205 and HP PSC1350)
- Carrying case for my huuuuge TT XaserIII Supertower case and 17" TFT monitor)
Being a student and skint already, I don't wanna spend too much, but I wanna get something of reasonable quality.
Primarily:
- Desktop speakers (just 2 satellites, not with subwoofer or anything, but reasonable quality and power)
- TV Card (I've got one at the moment - Hauppauge WinTV - but it can't record very well at all - e.g. can't compress - and the quality isn't fantastic)
- All-In-One Printer/Scanner/Copier (something small - I'm looking at the HP PSC1205 and HP PSC1350)
- Carrying case for my huuuuge TT XaserIII Supertower case and 17" TFT monitor)
Being a student and skint already, I don't wanna spend too much, but I wanna get something of reasonable quality.
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Microchips wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> What amazes me is that we took exactly the same subjects for AS, and
> I will be dropping Physics for next year too.
>
> I have my last AS exam tomorrow (Maths P2). Everything went fine,
> bar maths. I'm going to have to resit at Christmas, unfortunately.
What a coincidence hey!
Yeah, I remember Pure 2 being a bit of a beast. You wait til Pure 3 for A2! ;)
Resits can make all the difference. I got a B overall in Geography AS, then I re-sat the Physical module the following January which boosted my overall grade to an A. First time round I got 81/120, in the re-sit I got 106/120 - I was well chuffed!
Saying that, try not to rely on resits to make the grades. I've done well enough not to have to do any resits this summer, and as such only have 4 exams to do, which you come to really appreciate when all your mates are doing 9 or 10!
> Thanks for the info.
>
> What amazes me is that we took exactly the same subjects for AS, and
> I will be dropping Physics for next year too.
>
> I have my last AS exam tomorrow (Maths P2). Everything went fine,
> bar maths. I'm going to have to resit at Christmas, unfortunately.
What a coincidence hey!
Yeah, I remember Pure 2 being a bit of a beast. You wait til Pure 3 for A2! ;)
Resits can make all the difference. I got a B overall in Geography AS, then I re-sat the Physical module the following January which boosted my overall grade to an A. First time round I got 81/120, in the re-sit I got 106/120 - I was well chuffed!
Saying that, try not to rely on resits to make the grades. I've done well enough not to have to do any resits this summer, and as such only have 4 exams to do, which you come to really appreciate when all your mates are doing 9 or 10!
I found P2 really easy, but P3 really hard. I got 97% on P2, but I reckon I'll probably get around 60% on P3. It's sooooo hard! Lol. P4 is actually easier than P3.
I'm going to die.
Nimco wrote:
> I found P2 really easy, but P3 really hard. I got 97% on P2, but I
> reckon I'll probably get around 60% on P3. It's sooooo hard! Lol. P4
> is actually easier than P3.
Once you've done Pure 3, Pure 4 is a doddle. I managed 80% on P3, which wasn't too bad. Got my Mechanics 4 exam on Wednesday...shouldn't be too painful.
> I found P2 really easy, but P3 really hard. I got 97% on P2, but I
> reckon I'll probably get around 60% on P3. It's sooooo hard! Lol. P4
> is actually easier than P3.
Once you've done Pure 3, Pure 4 is a doddle. I managed 80% on P3, which wasn't too bad. Got my Mechanics 4 exam on Wednesday...shouldn't be too painful.
I've not been taught P4. I'm teaching myself. Gotta do that this week actually. I've only done half the modules so far. It's soo much easier than P3 though!
Uncle Albert wrote:
I managed 80% on P3
No I didn't! I managed a much more respectable 89%. Tsk.
I managed 80% on P3
No I didn't! I managed a much more respectable 89%. Tsk.
Nimco wrote:
> I have 2 seperate HDDs, so I keep a disk image of my C: drive (e.g.
> all my documents, web sites, programs - the whole lot) on my second
> drive, plus I have a backup on DVD.
Are you hard drives in RAID 1?
> I have 2 seperate HDDs, so I keep a disk image of my C: drive (e.g.
> all my documents, web sites, programs - the whole lot) on my second
> drive, plus I have a backup on DVD.
Are you hard drives in RAID 1?
They're not RAIDed at all - totally separate drives giving me 298GB of HDD space.
Nimco wrote:
> They're not RAIDed at all - totally separate drives giving me 298GB of
> HDD space.
Perhaps you should've considered mirroring (i.e. RAID 1).
> They're not RAIDed at all - totally separate drives giving me 298GB of
> HDD space.
Perhaps you should've considered mirroring (i.e. RAID 1).
Why? I like having the extra space and this way I have the flexibility to have my second drive for whatever I like other than for only backups. And I don't need the extra performance.
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