Recent content by mrhoddy

Cheers for responses all - hmm yes have now seen how many models have passed since then!! To be honest, if I did look to get another, I’d look to get XPro 1 rather than later due to price - I do recall though that many at the point I bought the x100 were unhappy with the AF of XP1, did this get...

Umm, been so happy with my 40d kit trade in for a x100 purchase like 7 years ago, I’ve not been back much since. come today, pondered a wider lens for an unknown reason - what is the ‘equivalent’ tech to x100 but with interchangeable lens from Fuji? Many releases since I bought and models...

Would the nik stuff plugin work with pse8? I'd go for the nik stuff first if it did then do LR later

As above really - having now moved to imac Im looking to overhaul pp software at same time (I have PSE 8). Thinking about LR or Aperature but at the end of the day I really would like Nik collection - are these just plugins and have to purchase LR or Aperature to use the Nik stuff or can I go...

As above. Long story short (see basis on my other thread) had a 1TB buffalo linkstation that held data backup, pics and sonos music data on it. Have copies of most important data stuff on PC and an old backup of music on an external HD. Just switched to a mac and was setting it up and...

It's a chicken n egg situation can't update FW as per buffalo as it can't find partition, can do this but would need to wipe the lot. If I take it out I may be able to use something called ufs or somthing but would need to sort an enclosure and fix the partitions myself I know nothing of...

Most data I have but juggling it will now be a prob. Mainly ripped all my music to nas to use flac with sonos, backed this up at start but not since. Is the whole thing now dead? Ie if I wiped added new partitions is it still ok? Or if I took hd out can I shove another in the nas box and it...

Hmmmm, not a happy bunny! Have backed up most essential items and files apart from music but managed to knock over the NAS drive last night and now its saying bad sectors and is in em mode i11 - 1 long amber 1 short amber flash. Unable to update FW without asking for new partition which...

At present I have the old desktop running win 7 32 bit version purchased from software for students and a dell laptop running win 64 which came pre installed which a re installation disk was sent with the machine. I have just ordered a mac to replace the old desktop and I want to run bootcamp...

You see this is where my knowledge of current PC tech falls apart - have no real idea what an SSD would offer me - is this essentially a solid state drive that I would use like a system partition to run OS and then read write to the HD? In all Ive noticed sometimes that sometimes even scrolling...

Ooooh those games are making me shudder and 'look' like a bad uninteresting selection! However I dont really know just snapping. Bootcamp, never thought of that or really know how this works - is this like some homebrew or warranty legal practice on the imac?

Yeah thats my dilemma I realise the CPU is old so unsure if throwing money at it is worthwhile - I dont feel I know enough, have the time or patience to do new mb, CPU etc and the thing is I have less and less time for gaming now so dont see PC as my entertainment like I used to - hence reticent...

All Have a Dell XPS 420 - Q6600 2.4GHz, 3Gb ram, 8800Gt GPU running win 7 32bit. Anyway late summer GPU fried I suspect - did the old heat in oven, re-paste etc to bring it back to life and is now 'normal' again. So it got me thinking, I wasn't ready to buy another PC yet to be fair...

No its not critical but if the refurbs have been newer models and all the difference is an open box with some light use then I fail to see the value in going new. If however it is one of the older versions, open box with some light use then Id have to give more thought to whether the saving...

You see thats the way I'm thinking, its not so much a 'might have been thrown about' more than I would know what model it would be ie 2012 or 2011 - whilst they seem to be good about its just would be an extra hassle For those that purchased refurbs recently - were they older or newer models?