Has anyone on here got any opinions on a Chromebook? A non-tech-savy relative wants a laptop and has asked for recommendations, asking for the price to be as low as possible, so the Mrs asked if the Chromebooks are any good. They seem a nice concept.

Great if you have a permanent internet connection, useless if you don't.
A Netbook for under £200 would be the way to go.

Anyone recommend a free site whereby I can store a few files? Less than 1GB of storage needed.

It'll provide me with a backup of these files but mainly I want to be able to access them from any PC that's connected to the internet.

Dropbox
Google Drive
Sky Drive

Or you could just Google it...

Thnx.


I was rather hoping for personal opinion on which sites were considered the best in terms of usability.

15-inch: 2.6GHz Retina display
2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
8GB 1600MHz memory
512GB flash storage1
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
Built-in battery (7 hours)2
Dispatched: 3-4 weeks
Free Delivery
£2,299.00

Wow, you'd discovered they do more than the base model...

Anyone who pays £2k+ for a laptop wants their bumps read.

£1k would have me asking questions!!

using Internet Explorer which is often sticking and message to show 'not responding' - can anyone help please.

Quote ="sir adrian morley"using Internet Explorer which is often sticking and message to show 'not responding' - can anyone help please. '" Yup... www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?src=amo www.apple.com/safari/download/ https://www.google.com/chrome/

Quote ="sir adrian morley"using Internet Explorer which is often sticking and message to show 'not responding' - can anyone help please. '" Yup... www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?src=amo www.apple.com/safari/download/ https://www.google.com/chrome/

Quote ="Big Graeme"Yup... www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?src=amo www.apple.com/safari/download/ https://www.google.com/chrome/'" www.comodo.com/home/browsers-too ... rowser.php This too, I've been using it for a while now and it's incredibly fast - based on Chrome so has the Google store too.

Quote ="Big Graeme"Yup... www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?src=amo www.apple.com/safari/download/ https://www.google.com/chrome/'" www.comodo.com/home/browsers-too ... rowser.php This too, I've been using it for a while now and it's incredibly fast - based on Chrome so has the Google store too.

Do i have to remove internet explorer before I install any of these. ?

No, you can install them alongside each other. Each one will probably initially ask if you want to set it as the default browser though.

If you want to carry on trying with IE have you tried Internet Options -> Advanced Tab -> Reset Internet Explorer Settings ? This might not be an available option if you are using an older version.

Usual outcome when it comes to tech prices is that £ = $, despite the exchange rate. I would wager it'll come out more like £2199 when it comes over here.

Oh, and good luck trying to swap out the battery, RAM or hard drive.

I heard about this, are they secured in now?

May have to stick with old Macbook for a while!

RAM is soldered to the systemboard and you have to strip the thing down to get at the hard drive or battery.

Looking at the specs of it...why do they list the graphics from the Ivybridge CPU as well as the Nvidia dedicated graphics? As long as the Nvidia GPU is installed there is really no reason at all to use the on board Intel graphics.

Doesn't the Ivybridge CPU do some of the GPU processing on board before passing it to the chipset?

What's the best way to quickly learn how to use pivot tables?

Currently use Excel 2010 but not much with pivots, but have a test next week on Excel 2003 and they will be part of the test!!! :/

there are some fairly good online tutorials on the Microsoft Website iirc, will see if I can dig them up.

is the test on 2003 as the menu's are different (and a lot easier imho) for Pivot Table in the older versions.

[url=http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/19/excel-pivot-tables-tutorial/A quick Google returned this[/url covers the basics.

[url=http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/me/mes9p5.htmlThis is pretty good too[/url

Cheers, appreciate that.

Yeah, it's on 2003, which I have used before but not to create pivot tables. Have done a few in 2010 about 12 months ago, but as you say, the menus are quite different aren't they, which is one of my main concerns about doing them...

the second one is more straight forward, they are fairly easy when you know how they work, what level test/exam is it, you might need V/Hlookup as well which some people come a cropper on.

My firefox is struggling with Google. It won't find any pages on it. I've checked my firewall and it's not listed as a blocked site.

Also, I can't access my Virgin email.

Any ideas?