No - it's an old PC World Advent hand-me-down from my father in law...

...when he replaced it with one from Lidl (!)

I know I can get a new battery, but given it's age and power (or lack of - I can't get a decent game of Football Manager on it) it's more likely to go to the knackers yard...or through the coffee table in an, ahem, accident...

Posted By: Arganth on September 14th 2006 at 22:14:59

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Really crap OT but anyone got a copy of Windows NT4? (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:02:14
- If you can get a copy of Win ME, I've got a legit licence for it... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 21:57:52
  - That (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:59:30
    - Licence key won't necessarily work. (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 22:02:34
      - Build ? Fucking shoddy. Battery says charging, but doesn't. And it's only a 1Ghz P3... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:06:43
        
        It's not a Dell, is it? (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 22:10:01
        
        No - it's an old PC World Advent hand-me-down from my father in law... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:14:59
        
        Really? (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 14, 22:14:37
        
        Could well be it, particularly if it just stopped working (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 22:26:39
        
        feck that for a game of souljers (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 14, 22:53:49
        
        Alternatively... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:59:01
- Save yourself the heartache (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 21:16:19
  - Prob is (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:20:55
    - Linux then. (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 21:50:11
      - Never EVER installed Linux on a machine. (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:56:42
        
        go for Fedora or Ubuntu (n/m) (General Chat) - scruffy, Sep 14, 22:06:21
        
        Debian? (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 22:01:52
        
        Ubuntu is the one for beginners that PC Format recommends. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:07:16
        
        It also based on Debian, but yeah, it's the best (n/m) (General Chat) - scruffy, Sep 14, 22:27:20

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