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I you had bought a Thinkpad again I have doubts that it wouldn't last as well as your previous one did. I may be old and cynical but I just feel that most manufacturers don't want things to last too long. It worked for my initial purposes which was to recover some files. Whether I will use...

Thanks for the reassurance gman. I'll give it a go.

Hi Ian.... I don't know how much you know about this stuff but clearly more than me and I have now extracted the hard drive and believe I need something like the following link to read it..? https://amzn.eu/d/08Ivah8n These are photos of the extracted hard drive (or so I believe)...

I'm not sure he would want to go that route, possibly due to a tablet not working quite as well as a laptop does for certain tasks (unless I'm mistaken ?) If he did want to go that route I have a three year old ipad pro 11 inch that I would maybe let him have and then maybe get a Macbook Neo...

Yes, he only really uses it for uni work and browsing. I had considered a Macbook Neo but was put off by the one I was looking at only had 8GB of ram. I'm aware that you can't directly compare ram in an Apple machine vs Windows machine but I don't really understand why so it still feels like a...

I must have been very lucky then because the Dell laptop I bought in 2011 still kind of works, albeit very slowly and needs to be plugged in so my son's failing before 4 years shocked me. Thanks for the heads up about re-using the hard drive... I don't really understand but I'll look into it.

Hi... My son's laptop has just died so I need to get him a new one pretty quickly before he goes back to uni. Given that it was less than 4 years old I won't be buying a Dell again so need to do a bit of comparing between models. When it comes to cameras there are sites that allow you to enter...

For a few years there were rumours of a Sony RX100 mark 8 which I was hoping (although not expecting) might arrive with a specific upgrade of a fully articulating screen instead of just the flip out screen. I also unrealistically wished for weather sealing as the cherry on the cake.

Hello from not too far away... I'm in Leeds

I don't think it's morbid at all, I have had this discussion with a particular friend of mine many times over the years (going back to when we were in our early 20's).... I have discussed this with a particular friend of mine several times and we both used to say that we would have "The...

I was born there and lived there until my mid 20's. My Dad still lives there so I still visit, but I moved to Leeds and have been living there for the last 25+ years.

If I remember correctly, my Mum's funeral in 2004 was about £3,000 to £3,500. Incidentally, it was at the same crematorium as the above bill.

Exactly what I was thinking as I read the OP's post.

Are those focal lengths the full frame equivalent..? If so, I think that might be more suitable than you might expect. I went there last year but only took a Sony RX100 vii, which has maximum full frame equivalent of 200mm but often wasn't long enough for me to get in as close as I'd have...

I recently traded in a couple of cameras and a few lenses at WEX and they ended up declining two of the lenses. One had noticeable fungus which I pointed out to them so they rejected immediately. The second had some sort of tiny blemish on the inside of the rear element which became apparent...