? they do dun't they?

bought one for the ma-in-law just before xmas (she paid i just advised) they did install all that crap with a 30 day trial, but i just removed it and installed AVG and Kerio firewall instead

Posted By: blindasabat on February 28th 2007 at 23:09:28

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Techie advice needed... Arganth?... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 28, 22:19:52
- I'm not an expert on PCs (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 1, 00:13:26
  - Technical question relating to FM (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Mar 1, 00:22:30
    - On FM07, in order. No he's shite. He doesn't look bad at all. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 1, 00:47:20
    - Oh, Bellier(?) - don't know - I'll have a look next time (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 1, 00:39:08
    - Well, assuming you really want to know ... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 1, 00:37:49
      - Big mistake (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Mar 1, 00:39:09
        
        Indeed (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 1, 00:45:05
        
        Asking for trouble (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Mar 1, 00:46:41
- There's lots of potential problems with pre-loved laptops (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Feb 28, 22:40:52
  - Yep, I normally avoid them like the Plague as well, but for 150 notes? (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 28, 22:44:55
  - cycling batteries is no longer necessary (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 22:43:33
    - Leo knows... (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 22:48:58
      - That's Brian Blessed from about 25 years ago ! (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 22:51:19
        
        nope, this is Brian Blessed from about 24 years ago... (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 22:58:49
    - Lithium-ion batteries are much better (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Feb 28, 22:48:01
    - Dave, presume you use an AZERTY keyboard ? (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 22:47:47
      - I alternate between a UK keyboard at home and Danish at work (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 28, 23:56:49
      - i've got an azerty (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 22:50:25
        
        It's a shame Dell don't give you an opportunity to choose not to take McAfee. (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 23:06:00
        
        ? they do dun't they? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 23:09:28
        
        Yeah, it comes as standard, rather than as an option. (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 23:12:10
        
        Same here - but the complete OS gets wiped in my case. (n/m) (General Chat) - bjt, Feb 28, 23:20:31
        
        it's a bit of a pain to remove apparently (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 23:16:22
        
        But then I presume I pay the UK price rather than the Dell.fr price ? (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 23:20:20
        
        no, you phone the dell france number (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 23:26:34
        
        Ah cool. Kind of helps make the decision. Now for the difficult bit... (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 23:27:34
        
        i started out by suggesting laptops that were around the £1,500 mark (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 23:31:20
        
        Unfortunately she's fairly clued up. (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 23:32:56
        
        actually i think they're based in Ireland (it's where they assemble them anyway) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 23:25:05
        
        didn't seem too difficult to me, just really annoying the amount of shit trialware (General Chat) - blindasabat, Feb 28, 23:19:45
- Um... funnily enough, have you tried www.bristol.com? (General Chat) - tim berry, Feb 28, 22:38:29
- that processor and ram more than exceed the spec needed (General Chat) - Pixelman, Feb 28, 22:28:31
  - Does it matter that the processor is not the fastest?... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 28, 22:31:52
    - to upgrade ram (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 22:36:03
- depends on the machine (General Chat) - Dave in France, Feb 28, 22:24:06
  - Yeah that's a fair call. (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 28, 22:30:48

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