2015-08-05, 01:43
Is anyone able to test if the envy cable powers a 3.5 inch drive?
(2015-08-04, 17:46)stammie Wrote: Well my sata cable turned up today, not the one from HP but a longer Envy one from Ebay.
I just folded it over and stuck it to the top of the SSD with some insulation tape, all told it took 8 days to arrive from China so not bad at all for £8:32,
time to cancel my HP order
If anyone is interested this was the one I ordered http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301462756004?_...EBIDX%3AIT
(2015-08-05, 10:44)sausage Wrote: Hello folks, just gone for one of these myself. Got a offer of £86.02 from bespoke offers, and Topcashback has tracked at £13.06 so that effectively makes it just under £73 which was too cheap to turn down really.
(2015-08-05, 10:57)Mark142 Wrote: That is good. Worthy of a mention on the opening post.
(2015-08-04, 11:51)Methanoid Wrote:(2015-07-31, 22:49)stammie Wrote: With regard to updating to Windows 10 I would advise anyone to create a recovery disk/USB first (it was a quite simple and painless task to do a fresh install of 8.1 with Bing on my new SSD using the recovery USB I made the other day).
I've also read in several places that you need to first choose to upgrade to 10 then your 8.1 key will be converted to a 10 key, after that you can do a fresh install of 10 if you wish and your new key will be recognised.
That being said I've run into no issues on my Surface 3 which has just been upgraded rather than having a fresh install, sticking to the "if it aint broke don't fix it" mantra I'm going to leave it as is rather than going through the rigmarole of a fresh installation, hard drive space aside this may be good policy for the G1.
I have seen reports of UPGRADES to Windows 10 but no reports of clean install Win 10. Mine upgraded fine and it also re-sizes the Wimboot partition from 8Gb to under 1Gb...which is handy but I would prefer to do a clean install. Anyone done that? I might have used wrong Rufus options when making my USB stick but my 260 doesnt pick up the USB stick to boot from it...
(2015-08-05, 11:52)Mark142 Wrote: I'll let you know what price I get. I requested 2
(2015-08-04, 12:10)MediaPi Wrote:(2015-08-04, 10:44)Methanoid Wrote: FYI, I am getting £92 Flubits.. and perversely.. £193 for two and similar silly price for 3... How can it be MORE than twice the price for two?
we've got the unique insight into what offers other users are getting for a product, not just on a single occasion but over a timeline. Seems like flubit do not favour multiple orders and give you less priority on best offers in a batch order, when using their algorithm.
keep resubmitting orders till you get close to £88. But stocks are starting to get low, we knew that was coming anyway since its end of line product.
Its funny that BT/dabs have had this for £100 also. they must be thinking "why is no one getting it from us"? LOL does flubit get the same deal with BT? has anyone tried flubit with BT? I'm assuming flubit really only work with amazon and on some occasions ebuyer
(2015-08-05, 12:43)sausage Wrote: Glad the info is of use.I did not realise bespoke and flubit are the same. I'll see what I get. I can always reject and re submit.
(2015-08-05, 11:52)Mark142 Wrote: I'll let you know what price I get. I requested 2
Mark, you might be better off going for the two separately as reading thought the old posts here and at hotukdeals Flubit give far worse prices for multiple units rather than just one (I know it doesn't make sense but that is what everyone has said). As Bespoke Offers is powered by Flubit anyway I suspect you'll get a higher unit price on two that you would for buying two separately. I could be wrong but it seems that's always been the case in the past.
(2015-08-05, 12:41)psionguy Wrote:(2015-08-04, 11:51)Methanoid Wrote:(2015-07-31, 22:49)stammie Wrote: With regard to updating to Windows 10 I would advise anyone to create a recovery disk/USB first (it was a quite simple and painless task to do a fresh install of 8.1 with Bing on my new SSD using the recovery USB I made the other day).
I've also read in several places that you need to first choose to upgrade to 10 then your 8.1 key will be converted to a 10 key, after that you can do a fresh install of 10 if you wish and your new key will be recognised.
That being said I've run into no issues on my Surface 3 which has just been upgraded rather than having a fresh install, sticking to the "if it aint broke don't fix it" mantra I'm going to leave it as is rather than going through the rigmarole of a fresh installation, hard drive space aside this may be good policy for the G1.
I have seen reports of UPGRADES to Windows 10 but no reports of clean install Win 10. Mine upgraded fine and it also re-sizes the Wimboot partition from 8Gb to under 1Gb...which is handy but I would prefer to do a clean install. Anyone done that? I might have used wrong Rufus options when making my USB stick but my 260 doesnt pick up the USB stick to boot from it...
Would be interested to know how much spare space you had prior to your upgrade, recommendation is 20gb?
(2015-08-05, 12:44)psionguy Wrote:(2015-08-04, 12:10)MediaPi Wrote:(2015-08-04, 10:44)Methanoid Wrote: FYI, I am getting £92 Flubits.. and perversely.. £193 for two and similar silly price for 3... How can it be MORE than twice the price for two?
we've got the unique insight into what offers other users are getting for a product, not just on a single occasion but over a timeline. Seems like flubit do not favour multiple orders and give you less priority on best offers in a batch order, when using their algorithm.
keep resubmitting orders till you get close to £88. But stocks are starting to get low, we knew that was coming anyway since its end of line product.
Its funny that BT/dabs have had this for £100 also. they must be thinking "why is no one getting it from us"? LOL does flubit get the same deal with BT? has anyone tried flubit with BT? I'm assuming flubit really only work with amazon and on some occasions ebuyer
I used Ebuyer with Flubits and got it for £84, but did have a nightmare getting it delivered.