Sam

Laptop mate.

Haven't really the space or desire to have a PC setup at home.

Thank you for your kind words Aub.

My budget is certainly no more than £1000. We only use it for casual Internet browsing. The above were advised as lasting a long time and being virus free.

Any advice gratefully appreciated as always mate.

* Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

 

* 2.13GHz processor speed.

 

* 3MB cache.

 

* 1066Mhz frontside bus.

 

 

* 13in screen size.

 

* Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels.

 

* Widescreen.

 

 

* 160GB hard drive.

 

 

* DVDR DL/DVDRW/CD-RW optical drive.

 

 

* NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics.

 

* 256MB DDR2 SDRAM graphics memory.

 

 

* 2 x USB 2.0 ports.

 

* 10/100/1000Baset Ethernet ports.

 

* 1 x 400 FireWire port.

 

 

* Bluetooth 2.1+

 

 

* Isight Webcam.

 

* 802.11n wireless enabled.

 

 

* Mac OS X 10.5 operating system installed.

 

 

* Software included: Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools), iLife '09 (includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand).

 

 

* 5 hours battery life.

 

* Size (H)2.8, (W)32.5, (D)22.7cm.

 

* Weight 2.3kg.

Is the next worth the extra £500 and more likely to run RFactor?

* Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

 

* 2.53GHz processor speed.

 

* 6 MB L2 cache drive.

 

* 4GB RAM.

 

 

* 15in widescreen.

 

* Maximum resolution 1440 x 900 pixels.

 

* 250GB hard drive capacity.

 

 

* DVD-RW Superdrive optical drive.

 

* Dual layer burner.

 

* 24x CD-ROM speed.

 

* 10x CD-RW speed.

 

* 8x DVD-ROM speed.

 

* 8x DVD-RW speed.

 

 

* NVIDIA shared graphics card.

 

* 256MB graphics memory.

 

* Media card reader for SD cards.

 

 

* 2 USB ports.

 

* 1 Ethernet port.

 

* 1 Firewire port.

 

* Built-in sound card.

 

 

* Bluetooth capability.

 

* Infrared capability.

 

* Wireless/Wi-Fi enabled.

 

 

* Mac OS X operating system.

 

* iLife '09 software.

 

 

* Up to 7 hours battery life.

 

* Size (H)2.4, (W)36.4, (D)24.9cm.

 

* Weight 2.5kg.

 

* Aluminium unibody enclosure.

 

* Contents include MacBook Pro, cleaning cloth, magsafe power adaptor.

My Wife and her company are doing something for Prince's Trust and I thought this may be something that a lot of you would be interested in. So I have copied this from her work email.

I’m part of the Million Makers Team here at St Tropez.

 

Basically, the small team I am part of had to come up with a business idea to raise funds in support of The Prince’s Trust (Reg charity no: 1079675). We have to raise £10,000.00 by January 2010.

 

The St Tropez Million Makers Team have created ‘Super Lil Me’.

 

Basically, you can build your own avatar….it’s only £3.00 to create a Super Lil Me you can use it on Facebook, MySpace or your own blog(Edit - UKDirt). OR you could just create one and not use it.

 

There is also a competition to win a day at CPL Aromas to create your own fragrance worth £2000.00! (the fragrance house that featured on The Apprentice when the finalists had to create a fragrance). There is also a runner up prize of £200.00 worth of beautiful jewellery from Hush.com.

 

It’s fun to do and it is for a very worthwhile cause and you might win. I understand we all have charities we wish to support, so please don’t take this as a hassling message.

 

http://www.superlilme.com/ - and go to 'Join Our Catwalk'.

Let me know what you think

Bugger it's this - http://hypem.com/track/918978/Santero+-+Reminisce

Could Admin please put in the original post.

Thanks for pointing it out to me Knobby.

Go to this link, and if you like download the song. But most importantly click on the love heart thing to say that you love the track, you probably have to register, but that will only take a moment. The more people that click that, the more attention he gets.

There are some other tracks up there if you search for Santero.

It will only take you a couple of minutes and I would be most grateful.

Happy Birthday mate

40 is sooooooooooooooo old. Explains why you drive like a Sunday driver.

Applied for your bus-pass yet?

All the best mate

Happy Birthday Walker.

Also Happy Birthday Budge, no wonder you don't hit so hard with ageing bones. You will soon be able to collect your bus pass.

http://owlstalk.co.uk/media/mjrehearsals.mp3

Congratulations on your hard work Tosh, get your feet up now and leave it all to the mother as mothers know best.

I've heard that he's had a nasty Motorbike accident, injuries include two broken wrists.

All the best mate

LeeK suggested a solution in last nights F2 meeting, however I didn't make a note as I'm not experiencing any problems.

Perhaps he can help.

God you two are very old

Happy birthday guys

Happy Birthday Neil and FT.

Mind you, are they the same person? Never seen them in the same room together, and both have equally poor driving skills!

Hope you have both had a good day, and have a nice evening too.

Welcome to The Championship Newcastle

Its a really good new website a friend of mine has just launched, its genuinely brilliant, but his budget is small so he's relying on word of mouth to help it grow. Basically its a souped up version of igoogle or something, but way better - much more customisable for niche interests, so you can link interests and news websites in order to get instant updates.

Have a look - http://www.fingertips-uk.com/

Please send it on to your mates via email, Facebook, Twitter etc if you like it.

Thank you all very much, I am definitely feeling the love! Although not from the 40 odd (and rising) people that opened this thread and thought "Na, stuff him, I'm not wishing him owt".

Thanks again everyone, I am now officially old

I am so disappointed at the lack of people signing this petition. I can see no reason why you wouldn't want to.

Please

Hopefully your opinions won't stop you from signing though lads.

Skin cancer is now the number one form of cancer amongst young women, and the concentrated harmful rays from sunbeds have been cited as the reason for this increase. UK women in their 20s are diagnosed with malignant melanoma at a rate of almost one a day, twice as common as breast cancer.

St. Tropez is leading a Parliamentary Lobbying Group campaigning for stricter regulations on sunbed usage in the UK. We are proposing a ban on all unmanned, coin-operated sunbeds in the UK preventing under-18s from using sunbeds, to help reduce the number of unnecessary cases of skin cancer cases.

To demonstrate your support, simply sign the St. Tropez SkinSmart online petition - http://sttropezskinsmart.org/sign-the-st-t...nsmart-petition. An email will be sent to you asking you to confirm your signature before you’re added to the petition.

Please pass this on to encourage more sign ups.

Happy birthday mate.

Happy Birthday lads

Java is turned on.

I can watch them through IE but it runs slowly and defeats the object of having Firefox in the first place really.

Anyone please?