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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #60 on: 06 November 2016, 10:30:25 »
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Guess I must be then ......
Opppps, sorry  :-[

Mind you, given your former jobs, I'd expect you to know better!
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #61 on: 06 November 2016, 10:38:24 »
Quote from: STEMO on 05 November 2016, 13:55:37
Wife's work laptop is a lenovo, she seems happy with it. Don't know much about them, but I believe this one was close to £700.
The consumer oriented ones are the ones to absolutely avoid. That's often true of many marques for reliability reasons, but Lenovo are a bit naughty one their consumer stuff with some of the software the BIOS injects into Windows.

The business oriented ones are, at best, adequate.  I have to tolerate a Stinkpad T440 Ultrabook for work, and its a crock of junk. Whatever idiot decided that that touchpad design was a good idea needs stringing up - its not even usable for short periods. And the mong who decided that a 120Gb drive for a corporate Ultrabook would be big enough needs shooting. And I'm too angry to begin to grumble about the retard who can up with the keyboard layout. Then I could go on about the fragility of it, not to mention lack or serviceability (essential for corporate machines).
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #62 on: 06 November 2016, 11:35:15 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 06 November 2016, 10:29:07
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I tend to use the laptop
What for, Mr AA, so we can recommend a spec :)

Whilst I like the idea of a 17" screen, I don't really need one, 15" will be plenty (same as my Toshiba).

I use it (apart from the obvious) video editing, photo editing, spreadsheets, and I like to keep my hand in with the odd Access Database.
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #63 on: 06 November 2016, 11:49:13 »
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #64 on: 06 November 2016, 11:54:56 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 06 November 2016, 10:30:25
Quote from: TD on 05 November 2016, 13:49:50
Guess I must be then ......
Opppps, sorry  :-[

Mind you, given your former jobs, I'd expect you to know better!

It was sub £180 at the time, even cheaper now I believe. It does what I want it to do.
Rightly or wrongly I always look to see if the chipset is Intel....which this Lenovo is...
It hasn't thrown its toys out of the pram....yet! Apart from an issue with shutting down properly after a win10 update....but I think that's resolved now after a bios update and a re-install of power management.

If it blows up, at the price I paid, I'm not going to get upset...and probably just go and buy another netbook.
However if I had spent £500+ plus on a laptop and it went wrong, I probably would get upset!

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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #65 on: 08 November 2016, 11:19:06 »
A new Home Hub from BT 'appears' to have 'cured' my WiFi woes :-\
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« Reply #66 on: 08 November 2016, 18:20:52 »
Spoke too soon sigh!

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