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I shall pop along, hope the weathers decent. Its dark by 8 mind, you'll miss the sunset (if it's nice that is!)

I bought an Acer Aspire 5536 for £305 ths week fecking bargain AMD Turion dual core 2.1ghz 4GB RAM 250GB SATA HD LED backlit screen ATI Radeon Graphics The finish is great, its silent when the fans not going mental and I've already ordered windows 7.

Alan take them to the Hungry Monk in Gartocharn its actually old, not a pre fab ye olde building type of thing

Alan will suggest The Stables shortly

Where abouts? I followed a 5dr Silver Astra today and they were slow as fcuk and doing my head in

Dogger!

Finance FTL TBQFH

got mine today too, might wait 20 years before I ebay it lol

Campsie runs: still got all but 1 of the above vehicles too lol - DOH

I LOL'd so hard at that pic

I'm away this weekend, cars are both broken anyway lol enjoy

received it today, it's 5536 not a 5535 so has a faster processor and windows vista premium, full of win for £305 it's immaculate and really well built.

Only intel ones which tempted me were core 2 duos tbh and they're all quite expensive

Yeah, it seemed too good to be true but I called them to confirm some details and they said oh sorry it has 4GB RAM, not 3GB lol Cheers for your advice, nobody else bothered lol

I have taken the plunge, ordered an Acer with AMD Turion Dual Core 2GHz processor with ATI Radeon graphics on board with a 256MB dedicated memory for Graphics. Its got 4GB RAM and a 250GB SATA HD. Bought from Argos Clearance on ebay as a 'refurb' A1 condition 12 months warranty - £295 + £9.95...

cheers, yeah had the same thought. found a nice acer for £420 with dedicated graphics card: https://www.simplyacer.com/Acer_Aspire_6930G_449059.html Core 2 duo too, could be a winner!

lol at the Electrical Engineer asking what firmware is :rasp:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173882 this is full of win, no HDMI socket though or dedicated graphics. No operating system but that doesn't cost much

Cheers. I run Autodesk Inventor on my laptop at the mo and Photoshop 7 not the latest versions but perfectly adequate for when I use them. Yeah it is a shared graphics processor with some dedicated memory as you say I googled the graphics processor model the other day.

Any advice? Do I need a dedicated graphics card if I'm not going to be playing games? Will films, photoshop, rendered cad images etc be reasonable enough with shared graphics?

http://www.cdiscount.co.uk/Computing/laptops/samsunglaptops/f/1522/186018.html this is quite appealing, not sure about the processor but has separate graphics which has to help eh?!

Cheers, I have run cad no problem on my old pentium 4 laptop with 512Mb of RAM so anything modern with decent graphics capabilities should handle it fine.

My laptop has packed up after 6 years use, it was a P4 3ghz with 512Mb of RAM I believe. I use it for tinternet, a bit of photoshop, a bit of CAD now and again, watching pirate movies ;), bit of word processing. Would like bluetooth built in, battery life of a couple of hours is fine, prob...

whining sounds like power steering, does it sound like a BMW Mini? :rasp: Alternatively if its more a knock than a whine it could be a driveshaft boot that's split and running dry and if you're seeing oil it's likely to be passenger side, if the oil is melted grease then it could be drivers...

yeah you're right, sorry its 6500 or 7250 isn't it, my mistake strange, so only happens at full throttle? but not if you gradually build up to full throttle?

Get it on the ramp and look at it, my outer boot had split there was grease in the area from it and it's obviously run dry and worn. A knock on lock and at low speed maneouvring, also feel it through the wheel if you're observant. I just got a transmissions specialist to do it, £95 fitted inc...

the rev limiter is different in different gears and lower when the engine is cold, are you taking this into account? peak rev limiter is 6250rpm normally if I recall correctly

Hendo's Patio sits quite high too, 3 dead hookers underneath IIRC

PITFA! Parts supplier supplied a valver drive shaft FFS, then said oh we can't get one for that car, we can send it away for 4-5 days for a refurb if you like. So....took the car back, and called a transmission specialist near my flat and the cars going in tomorrow for a refurbished driveshaft...

is the full list published online? I don't buy mags, I'm tight.