Staff at the Derby branch of PC World have today told a customer of mine that the store will close soon and the business transferred to Curries. The staff member thinks this will happen across all of the UK. He also noticed many price reductions on PC's and accessories. This may be staff...

Tx2 wrote: Given cost consideration of £250 - £300, which manufacturer might be the best to consider for TFT monitors, certainly in terms of quality of product, and warranty terms/period? I'm looking to get a new monitor as my daughter's CRT is on it's way out, so she can have the TFT...

johannes wrote: I was about to purchase the full version of PCTools Registry Mechanics online. It seems a good product and I had already used the trial version. But you need the full version to fix all the problem that it finds. This may me handy, I thought. Went through all the web...

Great stuff for people who want to become mutants !!!

Hi, Any stock the following or something close to it in the UK?: http://www.modthebox.com/review258_1.shtml Either plain retailer or trade outfit will suffice. -- With regards, Gordon Walker.

Where can I buy PSUs in the UK that are between 350-450Watts. Anyone know of any good UK vendors that they use? Thanks

Advice/thoughts please. Ordered 3 western digital 750Gb harddrives from ebuyer last week (£300) all have a manufacturing date of December 2007. Topically hdisks are not so far behind on dates since this is also applied as the warranty date fwiw. Anyone think i should query this? tia

Do Ebuyer and or CC Processors only do Random security checks on credit cards, just had this notification from them :- "Dear Sir / Madam, PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW- THERE IS NO NEED TO CALL/ENOTE AS YOU WILL BE ADVISED ON THE BELOW. Unfortunately during the security check stage, our...

"Vance Roos" wrote in message ... I'm looking for some info and advice on finding a credit card company. I particularly like idea of the Cahoot credit card because Cahoot has a facility which allows you to generate a "one-time" unique...

Anyone know anything about Key Computers (in Uxbridge I believe)? My daughter has just won a free "prize" of a computer from them (provided she pays £116.33 for one-year's maintenance). -- Ian

"Nick Webster" wrote in message ... Hi, I work about 500 yards away from Time Computers, and can report they have just sent ALL their staff home with redundancy notices. Our local radio is reporting that the...

I ordered an MP3 player from Pixmania. They sent me a camera (someone else's order). I called them 3 times to arrange collection. Nothing. I emailed them to complain. I got a reply saying they would collect but could not say on which of 2 days this might happen. A further call, pointing out...

Hi, Anyone know of good deals for laptops (new). Not looking for anything flashy, just something that will enable me to use word processing and access the Internet. I'm willing to pay from £500 to £800, but the cheaper the better. Thanks

Hi everyone, For the past few days, I've been fruitlessly looking for a laptop that fits my demands; can you put me on the right track? I am looking for a desktop replacement laptop (any brand) with a Windows 2000 or XP OS, but without any Microsoft Works or Office. You read that right, I do not...

It's a long time since I've dealt with them, so anyone got any upto date comments & experience of them ? Considering buying this from them. http://www.microdirect.co.uk/companypages/products/mdsystems/gamma.htm Unless someone here knows of a better deal ;) Wm ?

Any time someone mentions eBuyer, I get an image of my head of an overall incompetent company, one person on tech support / customer services, eNotes that take weeks to get a reply, etc, etc. I even recall an eBuyer sucks website of some form from a few years back. Recently (this week), I...

Hi, Where would you experts go in the UK (I'm London-based) to buy a second-hand 17" TFT monitor - especially one that came with some kind of guarantee? Any advice makes to go for / avoid, and expected price to pay also welcome. Thanks,

My new Philips monitor has a resolution of 1680X1050. My existing cheap and nasty graphics cards handle this at analogue, but not digital. And trying to track down the resolutions that various cards deliver seems impossible. That is one of the specs they seem to bury. Anyone got any...

Dell offering the Dimension 2400 with the following spec: Celeron 2.4 Intel 845GV+ chipset Integrated sound + graphics 17" monitor 40 GB HD + 128MB RAM 16x DVD drive + 48x cdrw Windows XP

Recently ordered a spindle of blank DVD-Rs from SVP. They arrived the following day, as promised, although with the plastic dome covering the spindle cracked and split. I sent an e-mail pointing this out, and stating that the discs were fine, and that I didn't really want to go to the hassle of...