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Cheers for the heads up on the Asus, I'd missed that one! I do like the look of the MSI, although it's now only £50 more for the model with an i7 and an SSD from elsewhere, still bringing it in under budget and in a more capable config for what I'm after. I like the look of the Gigabyte Sabre...

Dell don't ship their refurbished models outside of the UK, sadly, and I'm not likely to be back in the UK for a while. :(

Hi all, I'm in dire need of a new laptop, as my 5-year old Macbook Air is starting to struggle. I've recently ended up doing a lot of numerical simulations for my work (research scientist), and while I have access to a large workstation for 'proper' runs, the Mac Air just isn't cutting it for...

Turns out OcUK can't update the BIOS for me before shipping - understandable, it was a bit of an ask. Oh well - looks like I've got a compromise to find. The voice of reason says try to pick up a second hand Skylake or pre-Skylake CPU, but the voice of "I want shiny toys now" says go for a...

I'm totally open to going second hand, if any suitable bits pop up for sale, but I haven't seen anything so far and I'd prefer to get myself a computer sooner rather than later. I've been particularly hoping I might nab a second hand screen, but no such luck yet. I will continue to keep an eye...

Yeah, I was wondering if they'd be willing to do that for me - would certainly make things easier if so! I'll drop them a message and ask - worst they can say is 'no', after all. :) If they do say no, I'll either have to go Skylake, upgrade the motherboard to something natively compatible...

Ah. Well, if I can't flash the BIOS to a Kaby-compatible one with a Kaby Lake CPU installed, that's a problem. I'd been assuming it'd still boot far enough with a Kaby CPU to do the update, but I've never had to flash a BIOS on a brand new build before so I guess I didn't think that through...

Thanks - I figured that might be the case, but if OcUK use the same board in their prebuild, I guess there must be a suitable BIOS out there. I'm not too fazed by the prospect of a BIOS flash - unless you mean I'd need another pre-Kaby socket 1151 CPU to boot even as far the BIOS, that is? In...

Cheers, Poneros - I haven't really been keeping up to date on Ryzen, didn't realise there would be ITX boards at launch. Still, as you say, since I'm going for a budget non-overclocked build I'm not expecting the release of Ryzen to do much for me, and I'd prefer to have something sooner than...

Hey all, Long time, no see - haven't posted for a while but I've been back lurking for the past month or so to see what's new in the world of computers. (Not much, as it turns out!) I'm coming from an i5 2500K build which I'd happily have kept, but I've recently moved to Paris and it...

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Hah, fair enough! The vocal processing is a bit much for some peoples' tastes, I know this from a few friends who particularly dislike it, but most people seemed fine with it. The lyrics were in the description if you'd wanted a translation. :) Cheers for listening though, I appreciate it, and...

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The Time Machine - H G Wells Fantastic book, really grabbed my imagination when I read it as a teenager.

Mmmm. Don't really know why I splashed out on a nice steak, just felt like it. :) That's also the debut of my new lens (Nikon 35mm f1.8) which was firmly set wide open for those pics because seeing 'f/1.8' written on the screen was new to me. Could probably have done with a slightly...

£12 on Gamefly for the Origin key with code. I can't recall the code, anyone interested can check HUKD. Downloaded and installed, going to load it up shortly. :)

Mine arrived today! It's on the camera, but I haven't really had the time to play with it much. I'm in a drawing mood tonight, I think, but I'm looking forward to getting to know this lens. :)

Ah, I got the same - that'll be the recent misprice and subsequent honoring of the misprice? I got a D5100 a couple of months back, then a 55-200mm for ~£100, then the 35mm f1.8 is currently winging its way to me for £99 too (less the price of another gift voucher I had). Hoping it lives up to...

That paper looks like it was written for an undergrad project - I've never seen a 'proper' paper written in Word, nor one with so many amateur-looking snapshots of their equipment, or just generally written in such a shoddy way. And looking through the publications list of the lead...

Also looks like a good option, and one I'd looked at already. I like the front LCD screen, though I can't convince myself it's really anything more than a gimmick.