OT. Philips Computers at Tesco

"David" wrote in message
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Asking here as many have experiece of problems with Philips TVs, DVDRs and
Videos etc. like myself.
But did not realise they were into computers untill I saw a couple of
packages in Tesco. Anyone have experiece of them?
Are they better reliability than thier domestic consumer products?

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David

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I bought a computer from Tesco last September. It was made by iQon in
Ireland, with good quality components (except for the speakers!) including a
17" Philips LCD monitor and DVD recorder, 512 Mb Ram, 160 GB HDD, AMD Athlon
3000+ CPU etc. iQon organised a service engineer to visit within a day or
two when the machine died after a few weeks. He brought a replacement
processor, but had to take the PC back to base to replace the motherboard,
returning with the repaired PC a week later. We are well out in the sticks,
but they used the same outfit as services Tesco's own computer systems (also
Boots), so if there is a Tesco or Boots anywhere near, you should get
reasonably quick service. The machine has worked without a glitch since
then.

TM

"Trevor Morris" wrote in message
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I bought a computer from Tesco last September. It was made by iQon in
Ireland, with good quality components (except for the speakers!) including
a
17" Philips LCD monitor and DVD recorder, 512 Mb Ram, 160 GB HDD, AMD
Athlon
3000+ CPU etc. iQon organised a service engineer to visit within a day or
two when the machine died after a few weeks. He brought a replacement
processor, but had to take the PC back to base to replace the motherboard,
returning with the repaired PC a week later. We are well out in the
sticks,
but they used the same outfit as services Tesco's own computer systems
(also
Boots), so if there is a Tesco or Boots anywhere near, you should get
reasonably quick service. The machine has worked without a glitch since
then.


We got a flyer of Tesco today through letter box one of the items
highlighted is one of the packages I saw in the store.
It does indeed say Iqon power PC, Philips FS monitor and Lexmark
scanner/printer. I'm now wondering if the box I saw in store had the word
'Philips' on it printed in such a way as to give the impression that it was
all Philips, I will check this w/e when shopping.

Can I ask you/others a question should I go for new PC. Do the instructions
assume you are completely new to computers, I ask as I would wish to
transfer stored info. from this to the new. Such as my letters in my word
proceessor (Lotus Wordpro) and items in Lotus123. Items from OE,
sent/rec'd./ address book. Kodak photos. I'm not a computer expert, so
maybe someone would piont me to a web site for these answers and/or a more
appropiate NG.

Thanks to all for thier answers to my OP.
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Regards,
David

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David wrote:
"Trevor Morris" wrote in message
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I bought a computer from Tesco last September. It was made by iQon
in Ireland, with good quality components (except for the speakers!)
including a 17" Philips LCD monitor and DVD recorder, 512 Mb Ram,
160 GB HDD, AMD Athlon 3000+ CPU etc. iQon organised a service
engineer to visit within a day or two when the machine died after a
few weeks. He brought a replacement processor, but had to take the
PC back to base to replace the motherboard, returning with the
repaired PC a week later. We are well out in the sticks, but they
used the same outfit as services Tesco's own computer systems (also
Boots), so if there is a Tesco or Boots anywhere near, you should
get reasonably quick service. The machine has worked without a
glitch since then.


We got a flyer of Tesco today through letter box one of the items
highlighted is one of the packages I saw in the store.
It does indeed say Iqon power PC, Philips FS monitor and Lexmark
scanner/printer. I'm now wondering if the box I saw in store had the
word 'Philips' on it printed in such a way as to give the impression
that it was all Philips, I will check this w/e when shopping.

Can I ask you/others a question should I go for new PC. Do the
instructions assume you are completely new to computers, I ask as I
would wish to transfer stored info. from this to the new. Such as my
letters in my word proceessor (Lotus Wordpro) and items in Lotus123.
Items from OE, sent/rec'd./ address book. Kodak photos. I'm not a
computer expert, so maybe someone would piont me to a web site for
these answers and/or a more appropiate NG.

Thanks to all for thier answers to my OP.

If your current computer is running Windows XP, I believe it's quite
easy to transfer your files using the file and settings transfr wizard.
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Adrian

"David" wrote in message
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"Trevor Morris" wrote in message
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I bought a computer from Tesco last September. It was made by iQon in
Ireland, with good quality components (except for the speakers!)
including
a
17" Philips LCD monitor and DVD recorder, 512 Mb Ram, 160 GB HDD, AMD
Athlon
3000+ CPU etc. iQon organised a service engineer to visit within a day
or
two when the machine died after a few weeks. He brought a replacement
processor, but had to take the PC back to base to replace the
motherboard,
returning with the repaired PC a week later. We are well out in the
sticks,
but they used the same outfit as services Tesco's own computer systems
(also
Boots), so if there is a Tesco or Boots anywhere near, you should get
reasonably quick service. The machine has worked without a glitch since
then.


We got a flyer of Tesco today through letter box one of the items
highlighted is one of the packages I saw in the store.
It does indeed say Iqon power PC, Philips FS monitor and Lexmark
scanner/printer. I'm now wondering if the box I saw in store had the word
'Philips' on it printed in such a way as to give the impression that it
was
all Philips, I will check this w/e when shopping.

Not all the bits are made by Philips, but I doubt if anybody makes all the
bits of PCs they sell. You can look up reviews of things like the printer
using Google to see if it is any good.

Can I ask you/others a question should I go for new PC. Do the
instructions
assume you are completely new to computers,

Instructions with my iQon PC were clear but basic, assuming little or no
knowledge, but are (as always?) limited to getting you going with the new
PC. Mine was just a bare PC - no printer etc.

I ask as I would wish to
transfer stored info. from this to the new. Such as my letters in my word
proceessor (Lotus Wordpro) and items in Lotus123. Items from OE,
sent/rec'd./ address book. Kodak photos. I'm not a computer expert, so
maybe someone would piont me to a web site for these answers and/or a more
appropiate NG.

I did a Google search on "transferring data programs new computer PC" and
got lots of info.

First site was:
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/pc-m...erring-pc-part

Briefly, it can be a minefield, especially if your old PC does not have
Windows XP (and don't even consider putting XP on it if it has not - I lost
all my OE stuff that way!). Things like OE email addresses, old messages
etc can be tricky to transfer, so be warned. At least you will still have
them on the old PC, and at worst you can print out addresses etc. if they
don't transfer properly.

However, if you have a cd-rom writer on your old PC, a lot of things like
photo (.jpg?) files, WordPro documents and 123 files, should be simple to
save to CD-rom and reload on the new PC, as of course will be any of your
favourite programmes you already have on cd-rom (your Lotus software?).
NGs you might find useful are in the group "microsoft.public.windowsxp" .
Good luck!

Trevor Morris


Thanks to all for thier answers to my OP.
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Regards,
David

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"Adrian" wrote in message
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If your current computer is running Windows XP, I believe it's quite
easy to transfer your files using the file and settings transfr wizard.


It is a slow, by todays standards, Widows 95 computer upgraded to Windows
98se.
I'm now finding it is showing its age, by the fact I've just got a CD rom
with Adobe Acrobat V7 files on, but this programme will not download from
the Adobe web site, all it will give is V6.
Windows XP is needed I'm told for Adobe V7 files.

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Regards,
David

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In article , David wrote:
Can I ask you/others a question should I go for new PC. Do the instructions
assume you are completely new to computers, I ask as I would wish to
transfer stored info. from this to the new. Such as my letters in my word
proceessor (Lotus Wordpro) and items in Lotus123. Items from OE,
sent/rec'd./ address book. Kodak photos. I'm not a computer expert, so
maybe someone would piont me to a web site for these answers and/or a more
appropiate NG.

I'd suggest you get a large (few hundred GB perhaps) external USB disk drive,
which you can either buy as a complete unit from the likes of PC World, or much
cheaper if you buy the disk drive and the enclosure separately at a computer
fair. It'll be a box about the size of a paperback book. Transfer all your own
pictures and documents to this and then to the new computer. You won't need any
special software to do this - just Windows Explorer, which is part of the
system. Then after you have organised your folders on the new computer into
whatever arrangement you want, get a backup program such as "Second Copy" and
configure it to use the USB device as the backup drive. The USB drive only
needs to be switched on when you actually want to make a backup, which could be
a daily routine taking a few minutes, though how often is up to you.

Rod.

Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , David wrote:
Can I ask you/others a question should I go for new PC. Do the
instructions assume you are completely new to computers, I ask as I
would wish to transfer stored info. from this to the new. Such as
my letters in my word proceessor (Lotus Wordpro) and items in
Lotus123. Items from OE, sent/rec'd./ address book. Kodak photos.
I'm not a computer expert, so maybe someone would piont me to a web
site for these answers and/or a more appropiate NG.

I'd suggest you get a large (few hundred GB perhaps) external USB
disk drive, which you can either buy as a complete unit from the
likes of PC World, or much cheaper if you buy the disk drive and the
enclosure separately at a computer fair. It'll be a box about the
size of a paperback book. Transfer all your own pictures and
documents to this and then to the new computer. You won't need any
special software to do this - just Windows Explorer, which is part of
the system. Then after you have organised your folders on the new
computer into whatever arrangement you want, get a backup program
such as "Second Copy" and configure it to use the USB device as the
backup drive. The USB drive only needs to be switched on when you
actually want to make a backup, which could be a daily routine taking
a few minutes, though how often is up to you.

Rod.

When my old Win 98 machine died completely I put the hard drive from it,
in an external USB enclosure and was able to retrieve all the files I
needed. It's now a backup drive in the way you describe.
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Adrian