Crucial Criteria for choosing equipment.

Lordy.UK wrote:
Subsequently when buying monitors I have always paid a
bit more for a known name.

Last time I checked "Samsung" *was* a known name...



This is just Skoda-nomics in action.

There still exists a lot of snobbery against LG and Samsung in the UK
consumer mindset. Some folks won't even touch a Humax or Topfield, even
though their machine are currently top in the field, because the name
strays outside their comfort zone of Panasonic and Sony.

Then, take a look at the sets with most reported user issues in this and
newsgroups - Panasonic and Sony. Nothing really wrong with the sets -
it's just that the equipment is often too complicated for the user's
application and money has been wasted...

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"johngood_____" wrote in message
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Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop
computer, I saw that somebody cut through the endless, "thats a good make
or that's not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the
heart of the matter.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main
makers, AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had inside it. Then after that
perhaps other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an
insightful way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new
set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the
market?

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very few
makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most of the
famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

do not buy a plasma. they will run up your electric bill way high.
i'll check with dh, a broadcast engineer and see what he has to say.

In article , Adrian C wrote:
There still exists a lot of snobbery against LG and Samsung in the UK*
consumer mindset.

Really? I've got an LG washing machine and it's excellent. As far as I
know they're the only brand that have the main motor integral with the
drum instead of sticking out on a bracket with a rubber drive belt. The
whole assembly is mechanically much better balanced so it doesn't give
that "kick" whenever the drum starts, and is very quiet. I'm certainly
not snobbish about revolutionary designs that actually improve things.

Rod.

I think laptops is a bad thing to look at if its only the processor which is
considered. There is quality of build, susceptibility to muck and rubbish
causing overheating, and of course the hardware inside attached to the
processor, ie, how much ram is pinched by other parts rather than having
dedicated ram, and does it slow down on battery to keep battery life
artificially high.

With TVs, and although I can no longer see enough to tell, I'm a great fan
of actually watching them first.

Depends on which sort of flat display you go for of course as well.

I'm told by those who have bought, that to them, Panasonic and Sony seem
the best lcd, but I have no idea who actually makes the panels.

Brian

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"johngood_____" wrote in message
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Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop
computer, I saw that somebody cut through the endless, "thats a good make
or that's not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the
heart of the matter.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main
makers, AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had inside it. Then after that
perhaps other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an
insightful way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new
set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the
market?

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very few
makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most of the
famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

Any information around this I would be grateful for. Also I've heard that
the sound of the set is relatively uninportant, since it will be
drastically improved by feeding the sound out through and audio
amplifier?

Grateful for any advice on the above and the few criteria you yourself
would consider first. Thanks

Normally, your rights are with the retailer not the manufacturer. I'd be
onto whoever sold it and get a new one.

Brian

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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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"David" wrote in message
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Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on
thier
lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only mention laptops of £600/700 +,
I
think they written by people with pots of money.


I was really talking with respect to the TV monitor screens in the post.

Up until a week ago I thought Samsung equipment was good. I was about to
buy
250 of their laptops for work, but a stunningly nightmarish support call
to
them recently means I won't EVER purchase anything from them again. I used
to be impressed by them too.

Their Scottish helpdesk told me to get lost over a faulty monitor, even
though it was only 6 months old and displayed a vertical line with 4
different computers (2 new Vista, 2 oldish XP). Monitor had to go in bin,
as
the user couldn't work with it.

Caveat Emptor.



Same here sam can go and get sung!! not again!..


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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:58:02 GMT, "AllEmailDeletedImmediately"
wrote:


"johngood_____" wrote in message
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Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop
computer, I saw that somebody cut through the endless, "thats a good make
or that's not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the
heart of the matter.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main
makers, AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had inside it. Then after that
perhaps other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an
insightful way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new
set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the
market?

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very few
makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most of the
famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

do not buy a plasma. they will run up your electric bill way high.
i'll check with dh, a broadcast engineer and see what he has to say.

That's what worried me about owning a plasma, but I can't say I've
noticed much difference when the bill came through.

Marky P.

Roderick Stewart wrote:
I'm certainly
not snobbish about revolutionary designs that actually improve things.


That will be you. The shiny shiny technophone and elderly set are a
different breed ...

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:53:33 UTC, "Brian" wrote:

Their Scottish helpdesk told me to get lost over a faulty monitor, even
though it was only 6 months old and displayed a vertical line with 4
different computers (2 new Vista, 2 oldish XP). Monitor had to go in bin,
as
the user couldn't work with it.

Caveat Emptor.


Well you should not have given up. If the monitor was not more than 6 months
old, the sale of goods act - specifically the "provision of goods and
services regulations 2002" specifically state that any fault which manifests
itself within the first 6 months is deemd to have been there when supplied
new, and it is up to the supplier to PROVE that it was not.

Ah but does the SOG and Distance regs cover *company* purchases? -
which I gather this was given the OP mentioned buying 250 laptops!

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"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Roderick Stewart wrote:
I'm certainly
not snobbish about revolutionary designs that actually improve things.


That will be you. The shiny shiny technophone and elderly set are a
different breed ...



Maybe they should take heed of this:

Costly kitchen appliances 'less reliable':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ncosts103.xml

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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Johnny B Good
scribeth thus

Well two second-hand Latitudes at £145 each have more then fulfilled the
requirement)

Where did you find those? I've been thinking that buying an HP 530 (from
Dabs) would be better value for money than any of the 2nd hand laptops that
I have found so far.


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