Ad says 'order in' which means it's not in stock.

More than likely [by now] it's a 'captcha' to suck you in.

Over this week I've been 'reviving' 2 laptops with clean installs of Win 7 Home Premium.

One needed more ram [a second 2gig stick] and I found one online at 'laptops online' or whatever...grand total of $22 [used - it's an old format] and yesterday it arrived.....

....in a box big enough to hold a computer keyboard....[it literally was a keyboard box].

Inside was a roll of bubble wrap and inside that was a zip-lock bag and a stick of laptop ram....

 Ya just gotta love packaging....

That's exactly what it is... a come in spinner to sell you some other stuff you didn't really want/go there for

Well it didn't suck me in.... was there checking out PCIE to SATA cards, not that I found what I was looking for exactly.

Somebody 'll have it, though, just gotta keep looking... otherwise the Techbuy offering will suffice.

I've just read through this thread for the first time. I had no clue how far this tech had come!

*falls off chair...lights out*

Took 5 months, but I finally had confidence to relocate the machine properly on the desk so it doesn't dominate the entire office area quite so much.

Of course that meant redoing all the connections/cabling but it's now quite a bit tidier than it was.

I'll upload a pic of the resulting desktop layout shortly...

Added that ASUS Blu-ray burner I was going to....too...

Finally, Jafo's caught up with burner tech....  he's got a Bluray, hooray, hooray!!!! 

Tis sad, though.... that he waited so long and the next new thing is just around the corner.

Define next new thing. 

Uvah

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Added that ASUS Blu-ray burner I was going to....too.

Finally, Jafo's caught up with burner tech....  he's got a Bluray, hooray, hooray!!!! 

Tis sad, though.... that he waited so long and the next new thing is just around the corner.

Define next new thing. 

Um!!!  Pink-Ray... which burns discs 50% faster and leaves the room smelling of roses.

Seriously, I haven't a clue as the what the next new thing is, but I do know that if you wait around too long to buy/try it out, it's obsolete before you know it.  It's like the CPU Jafo has in this rig, the Intel Core i7 5960X, it isn't that old in terms of shelf life for a high-end CPU, yet it will be superceded and likely upstaged by the Skylake range in just a few months.  And it's not like one can just swap out the 5960X for a Skylake successor.  Skylake will have a different socket altogether, meaning that 2011/2011v3 motherboards will be old hat, too.

I was going to build a similar specced rig with the same CPU around August, but considerations regarding my health have come up and it's probably off the drawing board until mid-2016, by which time the Skylake series and respective hardware will have taken over as the tech to get... that is unless AMD's Zen range surprises everybody.

Actually, blu-ray is the next standard, most likely.  It will be h.265 instead of h.264 encoded, sporting 4k resolution compression on existing discs and requiring higher end processing power than the current players have.  Jafo's burner, being on a PC, will rely on his cpu/gpu and software kit, thus still be viable for 4k discs.

If they stick with h.264, they'll need a new disc though.  4k isn't likely to see widespread adoption any time soon though, it will likely be several years to get a decent number of people to abandon their 1080 televisions for a better picture most people are too blind to see anyway.  Blu-rays are already stagnant as is, they can't seem to do much better than 30% market share in physical disc movie sales.

I just wanted something that'd outlive me....it's a M-disk burner that supposedly lasts 1000 years....

Of course....if the disks don't last that long I'll be first in line to claim under warranty.....and sue for misleading advertising....

...or just to haunt whom-ever has survived that long...

Even though I can't do the high end stuff I can do an alternative. I set myself a budget and within ten months I'll have a decent laptop to work with. All I'll need after that is a 50 inch monitor or 48 inch, whichever comes first. I have a complete surround sound system, an external drive for the HD from my first laptop and a blank 1 TB HD. The TV/Monitor won't be hard to do. The local Kmart has a lease plan than lets you pay over time. I could have one in six to seven months but be using it from day one. Then its just a matter of hooking it all up.

Hijack unintentional. Lol

Just a heads-up that many times those lease plans translate to an expensive borrowing rate (in general, not just KMart in particular).  Just make sure you know how much it'll cost you vs. just waiting to get the tv and go from there.  Hate to see anybody get gouged without knowing it.

Yeah, precisely!  Sometimes an item purchased this way can cost almost twice as much, what with interested calculated on monthly balances... and penalty rates can apply for missed payments.  I know somebody who learnt this leasing thing the hard way, with a $1395 TV costing her almost $2200 by the time it's paid out.... and should she miss a payment for whatever reason, interest for that particular month is calculated as double, thus increasing the balance payable and eventual payout figure.

Given that the price of flat screen TVs has dropped considerably, and therefore making them more affordable these days, Uvah, you might want to consider looking at a lay-by purchase instead.  That way there is no interest and no penalty payments to worry about.  I generally save for things I want or need and pay cash on the day [discount for cash can save quite a bit], but for more expensive items that are too big to do in one hit, I'll always use the lay-by method because I hate paying out money for nothing,  True, you don't get your purchase then and there, but waiting those extra weeks/months can save a shipload of money at the end of the day.... and let's face it, when you don't have a lot to begin with, it's far better in your pocket than theirs.

Okay, that's Economics 101 for today, you will be returned to regular viewing shortly.

Believe me, I'm in no hurry. I ask a lot of questions first. Now...getting back to Jafo's WMD. Lol

Good, I'm glad to hear it, and it's better when you're in no hurry.  I've seen people who want it all now get into so much financial trouble. usually because some smooth talking salesperson talked them into taking stuff out on credit they really couldn't afford.

As for flat screen TVs, you can get a pretty decent 32" for under $400 here in Aus these days.  Now I'm not sure of US prices, but I imagine that with a healthy deposit you could lay-by a 32" TV and pay it off in a couple of months or so.  That's what I do when lay-bying things, pay a decent deposit to cut down the balance payable, then formulate a budget to reduce the amount in affordable increments until fully paid.  A lot of people opt for credit because they don't like the lay-by system, but for mine it is the easiest and most cost effective way to purchase goods with larger than usual price tags

Anyway, I'm sure you'll figure it out and do what's best for you.