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Ordered a replacement keyboard and a new CPU for a laptop I'm fixing up to give away as a Christmas present to one of my wife's cousins. Laptop is an old HP G6-1B87CL, originally had 4GB of DDR3-800, 120GB HDD (that was on it's last legs), and a potato Pentium P6200 in it.

I put 6GB of DDR3-1033 in it, a 500GB HDD, and I'm replacing the potato Pentium with an i3 390M (which should be the fastest CPU this particular laptop will accept apparently), which should hopefully make this thing less potato than it already is.
 
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Cheap probes. ESR meter comes with crocodile clips, not bad, but awkward to get in some places. So some cheap probes for it as my good ones from my multimeter won't fit it (different plug).


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Blanka duck.
 
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God today has been one of my biggest 'load of cool stuff turns up at once' days in a while.

First I got a fancy new keyboard to review!
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You can expect the review to be live in a week or so when I've got used to the weird sensation of a tented layout and the whole split nature lol

Next I got probably the nicest pen I've ever owned, a Lamy 2000!
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The inks are super nice too. Really fancy bottles. The pen just glides, I've never used anything like it in my time with fountain pens.

Finally, the Huawei MediaPad M5 8 turned up after being delayed a day thanks to Amazon sending it to the wrong delivery place.
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Not usually one for Black Friday deals, but I've been tossing up between this and an iPad Mini for about six months now. Seeing this £100 off sealed the deal lol, £200ish is right about where I wanted to be.

I also bought a Steam Controller from the Autumn Sale but obviously that isn't here yet lol
 
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have those docks been deemed safe? I have only heard horror stories from third party docks which make me paranoid enough to stay away from them

a bit more on topic. going bf shopping later today. lets see what i am able to buy :P
 
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