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cools wrote:Chrome is a browser, not an email client.
You don't say :lolno: In my current browser Opera it has a built in mail checker, Chrome has mail apps that you can add which do the same thing, But I can't seem to find one that I can put my old freeserve mail account into. I'll keep looking :roll:
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I don't get why you'd trust that kind of task to a Chrome (or even a Firefox) extension. Opera has it as part of the standard codebase so it makes sense to use it there.
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I do like Opera, But it's started doing wierd things, Like taking ages playing video clips or just not playing them at all, Some drop down options on some web sites just don't show on Opera either. It seems with each update it just gets worse, I heard Chrome was one of the best along with firefox so decided it was time to leave Opera :(
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The mini is a perfect screen size IMO. The price for the base deal is pretty good too.
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I had a play with a Galaxy Note 2 in Tesco. I love the pressure sensitive pen but the cpu drag ruined it for me on all but the basic fine line pen tool. I'd have thought the handset would be plenty powerful enough.
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And we hit beta 2...i'm hoping it has polyalloy qualities that can transform my iPhone into a Nexus! :lol:
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markedkiller78 wrote:The mini is a perfect screen size IMO. The price for the base deal is pretty good too.
I feel the exact opposite. I wouldn't be able to justify the mini when the full size iPad 2 is only £30 (or ~ 10%) more. I haven't really given much time to smaller tablets but I like them being nearly A4. Actually I reckon I could go bigger.
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The iPad mini is too big, and the iPad 2 has sucky PPI.

I'd love to see a tablet with an A4 size screen and decent resolution. Shame the bezel would make such a device even bigger.
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The Google Play store is having issues. Guess the demand for the Nexus 4 was slightly unprecedented.
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cools wrote:The Google Play store is having issues. Guess the demand for the Nexus 4 was slightly unprecedented.
Did you manage to order??
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Did it pop up to order? It still shows the notify screen when I look.

I've been having a squint since about 8 am on & off.
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Nope. Kept trying until it was NLA again
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markedkiller78 wrote:Did it pop up to order? It still shows the notify screen when I look.

I've been having a squint since about 8 am on & off.
Yes, it was available from about 8am for about 20 minutes.
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Balls, 8.05 I was on the train reading my book :roll:
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Great, they sent me an email at 08.42 saying it's available.
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I tried solidly for that time period and only once got to checkout.
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I don't see me getting one before Christmas :problem:

The Nokia 920 is £410 payg. I'm going to wait for a Nexus, it took me long enough to decide, so I'm not changing now!!!
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SuperPang wrote:Image
Good.
I'm not sure if I like this. Two years ago (when intel first announced something very similar) I would have been all over it, but since then SSDs have greatly dropped in price and I've recently been able to buy a 512GB crucial M4 ssd for £220. I'd rather stick with that than have a mechanical disk cranking away doing constant data management as the drive fills up, and Apple's large SSD prices continue to be a joke.

This hasn't been a problem for me so far. Apple make a killing on ram and storage, but their imac 27 isn't too bad value all things considered as long as you upgrade those things yourself. In the past Ive been able to pop the screen off and change the drive fairly easily, but on this new one with it's "fully laminated LCD", it sounds a lot like the screen is going to be glued tightly on like on the new Macbook pros and practically impossible to get under.

I'll have to wait and see, but I don't want to step down from a 512GB ssd and apple's ssd upgrade prices will probably price me out.

I may have to... not get one ... :-o
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pubjoe wrote: I may have to... not get one ... :-o
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Google Play Music is rather good isn't it.

Now, to figure out the quickest way of getting everything into it. Fortunately it's all tagged and artworked correctly already.
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