So whats been up....

Well not much exciting, I wish I could say I have been travelling in Austrailia but thats simply not true.

Basically, there have been two things. Firstly I have never had my own PC / Laptop. I used to be able to blog, upload photos and do all sorts using my work computer. The problem with this is that my work PC got updated and stopped people accessing blogs and posting to them through an enhanced firewall. This wasn't too bad, I could still look at blogs and I do some basic stuff.

Then, a fault developed on my work PC which meant that the hard drive had to be completly rebuilt with a new build, this then had a new firewall installed that prevented me doing any uploading or downloading of any sort - effectively it prevented me accessing the internet. That was that and I knew I was buying a new personal laptop in June and here we are.

So - what did I buy. I took a good few weeks to decide on this. Fortunatley for me I was given £200 from a BT Customer as a thankyou for helping (corporate customer) so this helped.
At first I knew I wanted a dual core processor but didn't realise that there were two types. Apparently there are two types - dual core and core 2 duo (the latter being the 2nd type and more up to date of core processors). I also really wanted to have 2GB of RAM to make sure Vista ran really well. However I was struggling to get 2GB of RAM machines at a decent prices (I only had a small budget).

Well last week I found the following machine from John Lewis:
Samsung R20 at £599
This spec to summarise is:

T5300 Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
120Gb Hard Drive
Ethernet Port
Wireless
4 USB, 1 Firewire

The cost was £599 but I used my £200 to claim vouchers for John Lewis reducing it £399.
I also found a site called hotukdeals.com where I found an online code for £20 off if you spend £100 or more, taking it to £379.

So all in all a good deal. SO I should be back blogging and getting my websites up to date and working soon.

CHAMPION