One or the other.

[Guest Vic]

I am in two minds, whether to buy a new computer (as I have had this old type Packard Bell for far too long) or an electronic timing system. It seems that I will plump for the computer, as the ets systems future is blank indeed.      50%  of fanciers with the  ets system have got them for nothing. Let's face it, for a ten second advantage at the most, with the first arrival, compared with the ordinary clock, is it worth the grovelling and arguments?   Can anyone recommend a good pc set up, in the region of four to five hundred pounds?      

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

I am in two minds, whether to buy a new computer (as I have had this old type Packard Bell for far too long) or an electronic timing system. It seems that I will plump for the computer, as the ets systems future is blank indeed.      50%  of fanciers with the  ets system have got them for nothing. Let's face it, for a ten second advantage at the most, with the first arrival, compared with the ordinary clock, is it worth the grovelling and arguments?   Can anyone recommend a good pc set up, in the region of four to five hundred pounds?      

 

do u have a pc world local to u can get some good deals in there mate

[Guest G.Drysdale + son]

Where are you Vic?

[Guest]

You will get a top notch Dell laptop for £350 mate,you will not look back.

[Guest karl adams]

aldi do a real good 1 m8 ive had this one   3 years  never had any problems with it to buy 1 with the same spec from pc world was twice as much

[frank-123]

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Computers/cat/Home-PCs

try here ya scouse git

[Guest Vic]

Where are you Vic?

Liverpool. Going to get it this Thursday, Unless somebody can convince me that the ets system is a better buy, but I doubt it!

 

 

[Tony C]

If your not after anything fancy

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?nav=227&product=FUJITSU002&title=Fujitsu+Scenic+E600%2C+Pentium+4+2.8+GHZ%2C+512+RAM%2C+40GB+HDD+%2B+17+Inch+TFT

[Guest]

Liverpool. Going to get it this Thursday, Unless somebody can convince me that the ets system is a better buy, but I doubt it!

 

 

Think common sense may well have prevailed already Vic,new Dell laptop mate.You Know it makes sense.

[Guest Vic]

THANKS GUYS, FOR YOUR INFORMATION. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT I FINISH WITH. CHEERS.

[pjc]

Go for a laptop, get wireless broadband if you havn't already got it and you can sit in the garden on those long afternoon watching for your birds and watch everybody elses times get posted!   ;)

[Guest Vic]

Finished up with an Acer,  big screen .   £375  very fast, compared with  my old

jeloppy

[just ask me]

i have the same i think  ;D

[Guest Freebird]

Finished up with an Acer,  big screen .   £375  very fast, compared with  my old

jeloppy

 

That'll save ye chippin it oot in slate Vic. Welcome to the New Millenium(happy)(happy)(happy)

[Guest Vic]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[OLDYELLOW]

my Acer fried within 3 months   so bought a decent comp from hp   and took out insurance so out goes wrong repaired free of charge   worth the £6 a month  

[THE FIFER]

laptops are handy,

[jock3]

get a ets you will wonder why you did not get it before ,clocks are out of date , the benefits for the birds are enormous

[OLDYELLOW]

get a ets you will wonder why you did not get it before ,clocks are out of date , the benefits for the birds are enormous

 

i'd of opted for the ets mesen all been well should have it when i get back from holidays

[PigeonTracker]

I've got an excellent PC system here going spare, cost me 2k to get it made for me by Dell a year or so ago.  Was going to put it on ebay but can't be bothered with the amount of nigerian bidders on there.   ??)  It doesn't eat or drink so if there is ever a needy fancier looking for a good PC I'll have it here as I prefer laptops myself.

 

[The Navigator]

my Acer fried within 3 months   so bought a decent comp from hp   and took out insurance so out goes wrong repaired free of charge   worth the £6 a month  

 

Was it not on warrenty if only 3 months old.

 

What you have to remember is that Acer, HP, Del etc etc etc are all made up of componants from the same manufacture, ie Quanta, Wistron, Intel etc etc etc. So it does not matter which one you buy.

 

[OLDYELLOW]

as soon as added bigger hard drive seal broken so guarentee null and void

[Roland]

Mate bought a real decent Lap top for £250 new with usual Guarantees'.

[Guest]

 

Was it not on warrenty if only 3 months old.

 

What you have to remember is that Acer, HP, Del etc etc etc are all made up of componants from the same manufacture, ie Quanta, Wistron, Intel etc etc etc. So it does not matter which one you buy.

 

Two things that make it important where you buy, the manufacturing technique  and the quality of machine purchased. I have a Toshiba lap top I've been using solely and it's very good for ordinary day to day wireless internet but the graphics card uses the Ram and is a big drain, graphics with its own ram would improve the machine tremendously. Someone metioned to go to PC World I was looking a few weeks back and I wouldn't have bought one of them, they were all selling blu ray, a technology that may yet fail, the basics like speed of machine, the chip, size of HD, graphics , video card, card reader, cache RAM were all poor, in as much they all had one or two good basic features but then rubbish others!