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[ams]

Its for uni so have to use Javascript, php and xml

Ugh. Why are they teaching old technology?

Stupid schools.

[skillionaire]

^ It's the east coast mate.

[ams]

XML is more for holding configuration settings not really querying things.

Php will be the go.

[Barbbachello]

Problem solved. Forgot to actually initialise the xml request object  

[skillionaire]

Rookie mistake.

[FR34KO]

No one has mentioned Toshiba laptops.. I'm on to my 2nd in 6 or so years. Great piece of kit! What are people's opinions?

 

Also, all these 16Gb of RAM; you better be using 64 Bit operating, as 32 can only utilise a max of 2 or 3GB RAM, can't remember which..

[Barbbachello]

No one has mentioned Toshiba laptops.. I'm on to my 2nd in 6 or so years. Great piece of kit! What are people's opinions?

 

Also, all these 16Gb of RAM; you better be using 64 Bit operating, as 32 can only utilise a max of 2 or 3GB RAM, can't remember which..

3.2gb  to be exact

[Harry88]

No one has mentioned Toshiba laptops.. I'm on to my 2nd in 6 or so years. Great piece of kit! What are people's opinions?
 
Also, all these 16Gb of RAM; you better be using 64 Bit operating, as 32 can only utilise a max of 2 or 3GB RAM, can't remember which..

Toshiba were really good about 3 years ago. Now I wouldn't buy one. Quality has dropped quite a bit.

[FR34KO]

3.2gb  to be exact

Ah, there we go!

Toshiba were really good about 3 years ago. Now I wouldn't buy one. Quality has dropped quite a bit.

Aw, sucks to hear!

This one I'm on is probably... 2 years old I guess. maybe 3 but goes well still!

[Liberty]

I've just upgraded to OS X Mavericks. Not a bad update. A few additional programs and features. I don't know why but I'm all for upgrades and updates to software. Click here for the full list of features.

[Harry88]

At least Apple didn't charge for you that update like they normally do.

[Liberty]

I was surprised as well... It's the first time they've offered the upgrade for free I think. At least since I started using OS X.

[Tim.]

Well they are patches really, not new operating systems in themselves - so they should be cheap/free.

[Robert]

Hi 

 

need a new laptop 

needs to have 15 inch screen min, 2gb graphics, 500gb hdd min and a decent processor (newest gen intel)

don't want to spend more than $1000

 

whats a good deal atm?

 

thanks

[TSG]

Depends on what you need it for. I'm a bit of a mac fan at the moment since I bought one for my work computer but you wont get much apple with a grand lol. I hate Win8 so much.

[Robert]

Uni work/some games

Really after an all rounder, I tend to do a bit of everything.

And nah, haven't got Mac money. I'll stick with PC
For now and maybe down grade to
Win 7

[TSG]

Ah been there. I had a Toshiba when I went to uni. Still works 7 years later and its under my bed. The cool kids had Macs, but at the time I didn't have much say (was bought for me as a gift).

 

Personally for a laptop, I prefer them without the dedicated gaming graphics card. All that does is kill your battery life if you cant disable it and I literally never gamed other than the one time I 'tried it out' on my Toshiba, which had an Nvidia 7300. The intel chips can pack enough punch to entertain depending on the processor. A nice balance of battery life, screen res and ram/cpu is all you need in my opinion. I am getting about 8hrs out of my 13" retina macbook on battery. There are a couple of ultrabooks getting around with good battery life too.

 

Toshiba or Lenovo would be my pick.. maybe get one with a 256gb SSD and keep an external/nas, I never store much data on my operating system drive in case it packs it in or the device gets stolen.

[Samwise]

Hi 
 
need a new laptop 
needs to have 15 inch screen min, 2gb graphics, 500gb hdd min and a decent processor (newest gen intel)
don't want to spend more than $1000
 
whats a good deal atm?
 
thanks

http://www.msy.com.a...ts/notebook.pdf

Look at the HP Envy 15-J041TX..

[Staxta]

MSY have some cheap gear, might head up one day and pick up one of the cheap laptops.

 

Anyone messed around with Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies? 

[Samwise]

Has any one changed a Nexus 7 screen?

 

I got given 2 of them for free.

 

1 has a cracked screen, but worked fine previously.

The second has a good screen, but has charging issues.

 

So I was I was gonna try and make a good one out of 2 dud ones?