Posts by MikeHuk

Upgrade went perfectly

Desktop and Laptop updated, no problems. Both seem faster too.

Just TOO expensive

I am sure it is an excellent product as is the Note 8 but they are just too expenive. My Samsung Note 4 does all I need and more. I have just replaced the battery(yes, it has a replaceable battery) for 10 quid. Great!

My 2009 desktop still works fine

Why would I buy a new pc when my current works well. Pc development reached the point where fast, really useful units were available some ten years ago. OK gamers wont agree but my 2009 Chillblat Vista 3.2 mhz is quite fast enough for daily use. OK I have put in an SSD which was a really important upgrade but performance increase is mainly that startup is quicker..

It has been updgraded through Windows 7 and now to Windows 10. Why would I upgrade? I am sure that there are millions of users who are in the same situation.

I am not an Iphone fan

Incredible price, fixed battery, fixed storage. No thanks, Mostly the same with tha Samsung Note 8.

I still have my old Note 4 which a superb phone with a nice big sd card, just replaced the battery for under ten quid. No thoughts of upgrading for these new mega price monoliths, might look at some of those Chinese models though.

Surprised that speed is still an issue

With the general standard of hardware today I don't see browser speed as an issue anymore, even on my old 2009 vintage pc, loading and web access is almost instanteious whether it is Chrome, Edge or Firefox.

I much prefer Firefox and find nothing to complain about.

Oh happy memories!

Just booted up my old 1997 Pentium 4 128Mb OS/2 Warp 4. Still boots in under a minute. Seeing that old familiar destop and realizing how ahead of it's time it was - Never crashed, speech recognition as standard, 4 virtual desktops, system restore, high security ring zero virus protection operating system - and almost as fast as my todays Windows 10 I5 2.4 4GB laptop. I wonder what it would OS/2 would have become if IBM had continued development. Trouble with IBM was that they were brilliant at technology but useless at marketing - the exact opposite of MS.

Sorry but I think this review is RUBBISH

As a Windows 7 user who has been using the Windows 10 preview in it's various builds since January, I have found it to be a really huge improvement over Windows 7, sure there are some minor bugs but this is STILL A BETA, I am writing this using Firefox on Windows 10. Windows 10 is way faster than win 7, I am using it on a Lenovo E520 Laptop which I hardly ever used because it was so damn slow under Win 7, but it flies under Win 10! It is stable, I have had NIL crashes it runs all my win32 apps better than under Win7. I have tried a lot of the Apps and some of them are fun but my main concern is getting work done and for that I use Win32 programs - Firefox, Thunderbird, Office 2007, VLC, Picassa. Libre Office. Irfanview, Tapinradio etc. All run well. It is suc a drag having to go back to my Desktop PC running Win 7. Roll on the 29th when I can update to the release version of Win 10

Win 10 is really looking good!

I am writing this comment on the latest build (10122) of Windows 10 preview and as a Windows 7 user am very impressed so far. I loaded it onto a fresh partition on a Lenovo Laptop which took ages to boot and crawled under Windows 7 Professional. It has rejuvenated this laptop! boots in about 40 seconds and is much, much faster in use. I loaded up some old games(Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena) and they run better than on my desktop Win 7 PC. All my usual apps run perfectly - Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, Irfanview, etc. I have actually grown to like the start menu and the tile apps - news, finance, food, sport, video, photos, etc. As someone who never upgraded to Win 8/8.1 as I really was put off the new interface, I now am using Win 10 preview in preference to my Quad core Win 7 PC.

There are still a few bugs and it is a bit rough around the edges but it is stable and no show stoppers.

If you haven't tried it give it a go.

It's not the transmision that counts it's the quality of programs!

The BBC used to the the worldwide bench mark for the quality of their programs but is now renowned for it's general mediocrity and lack of direction and purpose. There are still some areas of merit such as documentaries and their news programs and web site but otherwise it needs a good kick in the backside

I am very happy to pay for viewing if there are programs I would value and want to watch.

Living with Landline

I still use my landline for calls and get no spam calls. How? And no I don't have a trucall type box. I used to get spam calls and instead of engaging them with any conversation, hang up immediately - "How are you today" = slam down. Now I get no spam calls at all, only valid calls. It works I don't know how but it does!

Nah! I prefer my Verbatim Wireless Mediashare

I have just Verbatim MediaShare Wireless Streaming Device to which I can put my own SD card, USB drive or even my portable Seagate portable 1TB drive(NTFS formated), I works brilliantly for videos/films, music, and documentswith my Ipad 4 and my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Can also copy files to/from connected devices all for £30

Long time since I tried Linux but Mint 15 Is great

Installed it on Tuesday and am really impressed! Install an my Lenovo I5 Laptop was smooth as silk. and very smooth in use everything seems to be there. Connected to the web with Firefox and Thunderbird and was fairly easy to attach to my wifi Epson. Using it all the time now and haven't bothered going back to Windows 7.

There has been a lot of talk around the computer industry that the desktop is dead because of lack lustre sales, from my personal point of view this is rubbish and a incorrect analysis of the actual situation.

The way I see it is that for the first time ever users can buy a fast, reliable computer at a reasonable price with a reliable operating system that works. Why would you need to upgrade or replace? Desktop computers have come of age!

In my own case I have owned 4 computers in the past and currently have a three year old quad core computer (Chillblast Sidewinder) that cost less than £1000 running Windows 7. For the first time I'm using a computer but loads programs virtually instantaneously, runs them without having to wait for a program to catch up, meaning that I can work or play the way I want all the time.

The two reasons that I am not thinking of upgrading or replacing my current computer is

1) For the first time I do not need more performance or reliability

2 ) As a mainly desktop user I can't see that Windows 8 is going to offer me much extra than I have now, If Windows 8 were a direct upgrade from Windows 7 with more relevant and new features to the desktop I would have bought it. I certainly don't want or need Metro.

Eventually I will replace or update if I encounter hardware problems or there is a new showstopper program that I need which won't run on my current configuration but this won't happen any time soon.

It has been said that tablets and smart phones are replacing desktops, from my perspective tablets and smart phones are in ADDITION to desktops and all have their place. I have a high-performance 10 inch Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean tablet (Toshiba AT 300) and a smart phone (Samsung Galaxy note 2 ) which are great when I am not home or in bed for browsing the Internet or simple games, but for all serious work I would much rather use the desktop. Mice and keyboards are precision implements, much easier than using an imprecise finger. For me touch screens are irrelevant for serious work, I have tried it and always revert back to my desktop (which I am using now).

Long live the desktop PC!