Things you recently bought or got

[Tom Bombadildo]

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.

 

[Armadillo]

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).

Blanka duck.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

 

[Scarlet]

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!

Spoiler: Keyboard

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!

Spoiler: Pen

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.

Spoiler: Tablet

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

 

[Bullseye]

Just a PS4

 

[Shadow#1]

Just a PS4

Why no excitement?

 

[CallmeBerto]

Why no excitement?

Video games are for nerds

 

[Blue]

Video games are for nerds

Yeah, maybe he just bought it as a youtube box.

 

[leon315]

My girlfriend bought me this shirt! <3
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dude, i bet 100 bucks that you won't have balls to wear that in any public places.

 

[The Catboy]

dude, i bet 100 bucks that you won't have balls to wear that in any public places.

I wore it to work that night

 

[Silterpy]

Got a second nintendo switch for $100 from a guy at work who bought it last march and didnt want it anymore cause he wasnt playing it.

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[Alexander1970]

Tried China´s finest....

 

[Silterpy]

Tried China´s finest....

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Hows the ssd? Is it worth getting?

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[Alexander1970]

Hows the ssd? Is it worth getting?

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I would try it for the PlayStation 2 and maybe also for the Wii.
I give you Feddback if I know "more" about this Thing.

Thank you.

 

[Bullseye]

Why no excitement?

Just buying it to play some games I got for free. Did not think about buying it initially. So giving it a try

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Ordered an LG 43" 4k TV as my relatively rare Black Friday purchase. $230 isn't too bad a price for it, will be a nice upgrade to the potato 32" barely 1080p in our bedroom now.

 

[Joe88]

Hows the ssd? Is it worth getting?

I checked amazon and ebay and there are name brand drives that are cheaper (pny, adata, lexar) and some which come with the 3d nand.

 

[Silterpy]

I checked amazon and ebay and there are name brand drives that are cheaper (pny, adata, lexar) and some which come with the 3d nand.

I'm not looking to buy one. I was just wondering if those Chinese ssd are any good.

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[Chary]

 

[WD_GASTER2]

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