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The new LT arrived this morning. The delivery was 5 minutes into the specified hour. It was double packed, inner & outer cartons, plenty of foam & polyeurathane. Unpacked it and eventually found the on button & it burst into life with the registration screen. Activated W7 Prof', activated my wireless connection, all OK. Then downloaded MSE, sent a couple of emails, had lots of typing errors, I think it's because the keypad was higher than normal, but will check that out, noticed you had to press two keys to delete text, hadn't seen that before. This afternoon I tried the TV on the HDMI & VGA connections, HDMI worked perfectly until I tried to turn off the LT screen, the screen turned off Func/F7 but the show I was running threw a wobbler, flicking on & off, Tried altering the res' & the screen selector in control panel, but the problem persisted, further investigation needed. Tried the VGA connection to the TV, that was fine, then tried it on the projector & couldn't get a picture, after a lot of messing around, found I'd plugged into the wrong VGA socket, changed it & all's well. So to sum up 75% satisfaction but need to check those two glitches before ringing support. :unsure::huh::P

Yachtsman1.

Think we need an old age emoticon. :(

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I recall needing a new laptop 3 years ago as I was leaving the UK for Australia, so I took a heavily animated slide show on a stick around the stores and ran the slide show on the demo models. I didn't want to part with my cash untill I actually saw the thing working and we tried dozens of laptops. I found that some of the most expensive and high tech laptops didn't perform very well at all, while some lower down the spec range did. You would expect the higher specs to always produce the goods, but it must have something to do with compatability of the componants too.

If I were buying a laptop to show PTE shows as I suspect you are, I would want to see it running some animation first. Put it under a bit of pressure and see how it copes. It is clear that the power we want is not understood in the market place.

Later in Australia I did exactly the same thing when I needed another laptop.

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Hi Barry

Impossible in my case, the laptop was built to my spec', see earlier posts.

Yachtsman1 http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

Yes I appreciate that and thought about that route myself, but I didn't want to risk getting something I then wasn't happy with. I still think laptops suck, but needs must.

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If you cast your mind back 2 years when I bought my custom desk top I designed it to be portable, or so I thought, In practice though it's such a fag disconnecting & re-connecting it hasn't been put to that use. In the picture, mine didn't have the monitor & clear sides.

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Follow up on the two supposed snags on the new LT. The typing issue was user induced, having got out of the habit of using the LT platen mouse, I re-adjusted my typing position to prevent my wrists/sleeves fouling the mouse & all's well on that front. Haven't tried to simulate the HDMI flicker phenomena, will give it another go later.

Yachtsman1. :)

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