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Morning all.
They've finally started adding Movies to the re-download over iCloud list on iTunes. I guess it took quite a while to get film companies to agree for the UK market. Useful to have when you're out and want to watch a movie in your library, but only a few titles at the moment.
They've finally started adding Movies to the re-download over iCloud list on iTunes. I guess it took quite a while to get film companies to agree for the UK market. Useful to have when you're out and want to watch a movie in your library, but only a few titles at the moment.
Belated birthday wishes pb, hope you had a fun day.
Watched a low budget horror film last night I'd read a bit about called Absentia. It was basically awful, turned out to be about a giant wood lice looking thing which sucked people through concrete walls in a subway. That's 90 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.
Watched a low budget horror film last night I'd read a bit about called Absentia. It was basically awful, turned out to be about a giant wood lice looking thing which sucked people through concrete walls in a subway. That's 90 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.
Morning.
Played Tony Hawks HD last night. Pretty good and brought back a lot of memories of playing the first 2 Tony Hawks games on the Playstation.
Played Tony Hawks HD last night. Pretty good and brought back a lot of memories of playing the first 2 Tony Hawks games on the Playstation.
Sonic Chris wrote:
Happy Birthday pb!
I've currently got some sort of stomach bug. Felt awful yesterday, feel a lot better today. Hopefully it's just a 48 hour bug. Rest and water sips seems the way to go.
Sorry to hear that, I had something like that last week and can sympathise.
Happy Birthday pb!
I've currently got some sort of stomach bug. Felt awful yesterday, feel a lot better today. Hopefully it's just a 48 hour bug. Rest and water sips seems the way to go.
Sorry to hear that, I had something like that last week and can sympathise.
Happy Birthday pb!
I've currently got some sort of stomach bug. Felt awful yesterday, feel a lot better today. Hopefully it's just a 48 hour bug. Rest and water sips seems the way to go.
I've currently got some sort of stomach bug. Felt awful yesterday, feel a lot better today. Hopefully it's just a 48 hour bug. Rest and water sips seems the way to go.
pb wrote:
Not a very interesting 40th Birthday so far.
So sorry pb ... Happy 40th Birthday :¬)
If I was any nearer, I'd buy you the cake!
Not that this will be of any consolation ... I don't think anybody really remembered my 40th or 50th TBH and I don't think the next one, which is close, will be any different :¬(
But as you 'increase in years', I find that you also develop a type of 'birthday indifference' to your own ... inside you wish yourself Happy Birthday and remind yourself of your age and what it means, but to everyone else, either older or younger than you, it's yet another birthday! Quite cynical really, but true!
Not a very interesting 40th Birthday so far.
So sorry pb ... Happy 40th Birthday :¬)
If I was any nearer, I'd buy you the cake!
Not that this will be of any consolation ... I don't think anybody really remembered my 40th or 50th TBH and I don't think the next one, which is close, will be any different :¬(
But as you 'increase in years', I find that you also develop a type of 'birthday indifference' to your own ... inside you wish yourself Happy Birthday and remind yourself of your age and what it means, but to everyone else, either older or younger than you, it's yet another birthday! Quite cynical really, but true!
Not a very interesting 40th Birthday so far. Currently waiting for eldest to finish drama. Might go and get myself a cake from Tesco after.
Don't fret yourself pete, the so called Windows Experience Rating is worth 'jack sh*te'. Try finding out what the values quoted actually mean, compared to other tried and trusted benchmark methods. Have never yet found a valid reason behind it, except for MS rated products ;¬)
Sonic Chris wrote:
The ratings would suggest that i7 is 3 times better/faster than the A8, which sadly isn't the case. It's a very good processor. Granted the i7 probably is better to some degree, although I doubt it's very obvious. Put it this way, my lowest score from the Windows Experience Index is actually the hard disk space of 750GB which is rated 5.9 out of 7.9. The processors rated 6.8 which really can't be that bad for £399! :-P
The i7 in my laptop has a Windows rating of 20.4 which funnily enough is exactly treble yours! :P
It's 7.4 really which probably means that it REALLY wasn't worth the extra £170 I shelled out for it as all other specs do seem very similar.
The ratings would suggest that i7 is 3 times better/faster than the A8, which sadly isn't the case. It's a very good processor. Granted the i7 probably is better to some degree, although I doubt it's very obvious. Put it this way, my lowest score from the Windows Experience Index is actually the hard disk space of 750GB which is rated 5.9 out of 7.9. The processors rated 6.8 which really can't be that bad for £399! :-P
The i7 in my laptop has a Windows rating of 20.4 which funnily enough is exactly treble yours! :P
It's 7.4 really which probably means that it REALLY wasn't worth the extra £170 I shelled out for it as all other specs do seem very similar.
pete_21 wrote:
Still seems a decent spec machine for the cash, the processor in that laptop does seem to have a significantly lower rating on cpubenchmark.net than the i7 in my Acer though. Not really sure what you can read into this as there does seem to be a large difference in the number of votes? I would imagine the actual difference is probably nothing like as great as these figures might suggest.
AMD A8-3520M
Intel Core i7-2670QM
The ratings would suggest that i7 is 3 times better/faster than the A8, which sadly isn't the case. It's a very good processor. Granted the i7 probably is better to some degree, although I doubt it's very obvious. Put it this way, my lowest score from the Windows Experience Index is actually the hard disk space of 750GB which is rated 5.9 out of 7.9. The processors rated 6.8 which really can't be that bad for £399! :-P
@HF I highly recommend the A8 version. Everyone seems to be going for i-processors at the moment (go into a store and ask for advice on a laptop, they'll try and sell you one). Might be a reason why the price is so low on this. You won't be dissapointed with it though. As a scouser, I felt like I was stealing it from the store when I was walking away from PC World at that price.
Still seems a decent spec machine for the cash, the processor in that laptop does seem to have a significantly lower rating on cpubenchmark.net than the i7 in my Acer though. Not really sure what you can read into this as there does seem to be a large difference in the number of votes? I would imagine the actual difference is probably nothing like as great as these figures might suggest.
AMD A8-3520M
Intel Core i7-2670QM
The ratings would suggest that i7 is 3 times better/faster than the A8, which sadly isn't the case. It's a very good processor. Granted the i7 probably is better to some degree, although I doubt it's very obvious. Put it this way, my lowest score from the Windows Experience Index is actually the hard disk space of 750GB which is rated 5.9 out of 7.9. The processors rated 6.8 which really can't be that bad for £399! :-P
@HF I highly recommend the A8 version. Everyone seems to be going for i-processors at the moment (go into a store and ask for advice on a laptop, they'll try and sell you one). Might be a reason why the price is so low on this. You won't be dissapointed with it though. As a scouser, I felt like I was stealing it from the store when I was walking away from PC World at that price.
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