JT!

For a start, you never stated it was in "full working order". Item condition on the ebay page states "for parts or not working". You then go on to say "it does work". So you need to correct him on that. (Providing you never said anything to him by any other means). Secondly, he came and picked this up, if he was coming 8 hours round trip, least he could have done was actually looked at the thing. I think you should maybe offer him some kind of refund, however you aren't in the wrong at all so you shouldn't have to.

You might get a lot of that tax back if work less hours for the rest of the tax year. Happened to me one month when I worked my ass off, and then was unemployed for the rest of the year.

Done it, has to mess about in command prompt.

I'm gonna forget about the partitioning thing, that's no biggy. But I do need to change the drive I install windows to to NTFS because I can't install vista on anything else. I'm thinking if I hit format that'll give me the option to change it. Can anyone confirm?

I pressed it, but got error 0x80042400e.

I'm reformatting, on the page where it asks you where you'd like to install windows. There's two drives. Firstly, how do I get rid of a partition? I tried pressing delete, that got rid of all the data. The partition remains. What I need to do is get rid of one partition so it's just the one, then I need to change it from FAT32 to NTFS. I don't know how to do either. Trying to install windows vista because it's clearly the best operating system ever. There is an 'extend' button... should I press it?

I'd like to buy one of these and use it as a snes/megadrive emulator and connect it to a old style tv. Would that be possible?

Yeah that's the impression I got from him. Looked at a few comparison vids on youtube, it's such a difference it's unbelievable.

Yeah I've been talking to a guy at work who went to school for building computers. He's really into the SSD.

Yeah that's a little out of my budget, probably going to get some kind of extended warranty too which'll add on $60. The less I spend on this the more I get to spend on a tower a year or so down the road anyway if I decide PC gaming is the way to go. Also secured $180 for my old laptop so i'll shop about for a couple of days if not i'll probably get that Toshiba. Thanks for your help!

Did you forget to post a link Muel?

Well I have a buyer for my old laptop and I've got the money so I think it's time to actually bite the bullet and buy something. Firstly, how easy is it to upgrade ram? A few of the laptops I'm looking at only come with 4GB which seems quite little considering that's only a 33% increase over what I have now. Is windows 8 worth avoiding, or worth waiting for? There's Toshiba I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214870

Surely the height and time spent in free-fall and max speed are going to be directly related, I mean all that is happening is falling, the higher you go the longer, faster (velocity) is going to be. Momentum is irreverent as the air will very quickly bring you to that air pressures' terminal velocity.

Film works wonders, but a pain in the ass to put up.

That's because the guy has a neck 40% longer than normal.

You need to learn your memes. That's Good Guy Greg, if he wont the lottery he'd be awesome!

Looks good on paper, but +8% take and minimum wage being $7.25 kinda puts it in perspective. But yeah my general rule of thumb is whatever the price is in the UK, it's the same figure in the USA.

...or maybe I should just yell f**k it and buy a basic laptop then buy a regular pc so I can actually upgrade stuff in it.

I see that you did. I don't play any PC games regularly because I can't. Only minecraft, and playing that 14fps and short render distance is starting to piss me off. I'd like to be able to wack it up to far and get at least 30fps. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214875 That seems pretty nice but I little over my budget. I'd like that have something that was over powered than under for sure. Might even look at some refurbished laptops, currently using a refurbished mouse and tv might as well get a laptop to match.

The toshiba I have now is really the only laptop I've had that hasn't broken. The acer's screen started getting white lines down it, and a hinge broke on the dell. This is the cheapest laptop I could find with a dedicated graphics card (obviously I'd never actually buy it because it's under my buget and the hinges) Thing is I'm not really looking for something for 'proper gaming' as you put it, really just something I can actually play games on if you get what I mean. I don't need to be going into the setting and turning all the video settings to 'extreme'... but on the other hand I don't want a game coming out 2 months down the line that I can only play at 2 frames per second. Budget $600.

I've always bought relatively budget laptops so I don't really get the idea behind having a dedicated graphics card as opposed to having shared graphics. I first came to learn about all of this when I found out the raspberry pi can actually produce 1080 HD footage, where was my 20 times more expensive laptop can't, apparently that has a dedicated graphics card? What I really want out of a laptop these days is to be able to stream 1080 vids / play bluerays and maybe still be able to be downloading / processing something etc without everything turning into pumpkins. It would also be nice to be able to buy some recent games, and hopefully be able to play games for the next couple of years, never did get round to playing portal 2. I don't get what I can buy a laptop for a little over $400 with 1gb dedicated graphics, when you can spend $1500 on a laptop that has on board graphics. If I was going to buy a laptop that'd allow be to do all the mentioned stuff, especially been able to play new pc games into the near future, what kind of spec would I be looking at?

Aborted. Apparently too windy. Keep us updated in this thread though for when it's going to be rescheduled.

They go to 11.

There's 4 pages of chit-chat?! oh my god.

That's probably more down to old posts being deleted. But yeah there's going to be many many members who only post a handful of posts... maybe if there wasn't such a harsh validation system in place they would have stuck around.