Posts by LesB

And 39.67%...

..declined to take the survey seriously and gave the silliest answers they could think of.

Odd spin...

So, the figure show that Apple's portables are less likely to fail than those made by Dell, HP and Lenovo, but your spin on this is to suggest that Macs are unreliable.

Was this article sponsored by the same MS droids responsible for the totally spontaneous and not at all arranged dance routine video?

Geographical pedantry

Newcastle Brown was always made on Tyneside, which is a bit of a generic name for places along the Tyne, though not to be confused with North Tyneside and South Tyneside, which are quite specific places.

The place it moved to is Gateshead.

It's a shell....

Quoted as "running on a Linux core".

So this differs only from things like Linpus Lite on the Aspire One in that it only runs a browser. And while a lot of things can be run in browsers, it's still a little limiting....

I remember Viglen....

They used to make pretty solid, generally reliable office PCs and (shock!) had decent support. All went a bit wrong after a while. It was the support that went first - instead of the old method (techie[1] places call, they say "engineer tomorrow?"), they introudced the "try another three sets of NT4 startup disks on that machine that won't boot, and err, dunno what to do next" method. Cheaper in the short run, bur ensured I never bought another computer from them...

I can't *quite* recall if this happened after Mr Sugar bought the company. I just prefer to think it happened in that order.