Jump to content
NEurope

MoogleViper

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    18,293

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by MoogleViper

  3. Posted

    What do you do if you're in a popular Italian restaurant chain, and they serve you a pizza on a large plate, and it hasn't been cut up?

     

    Do you just rip it apart with your bare hands and tear into it with your teeth? Meanwhile you're inlaws are crying and your wife is telling her mother that she regrets ever marrying you.

     

    I cut it into slices with a knife, and then use my hands to eat those slices.

  7. Posted

    Can you find an equally specced laptop that looks (this is important to a lot of people although obviously looks are subjective) and performs the same as a MacBook?

     

    Similar specced, yes, look and feel maybe not so.

     

    I don't personally like the look of Macbooks, nor do I consider visuals a particularly important aspect, so clearly I'm not the key customer for Apple. I will admit that Macs do have a great feel to them. The cases being made from a single piece of metal rather than various bits cobbled together does feel very nice.

     

    Personally I think of macbooks vs. other laptops as a similar state to german cars vs. japanese cars. When people talk about german cars they talk about reliability and build quality. However all evidence shows that companies like Lexus, Toyota, Honda, Suzuki have the best reliability, whereas BMWs and Mercedes aren't that reliable at all (VAG are still pretty reliable, and Merc have improved in the last 5-10 years). But with a german car you do get prestige, badge image, luxurious design and feel etc.

     

    In conclusion I think Happenstance should buy a Toyota Yaris.

  9. Posted

    I'm not a fan of Macbooks. They have some uses (various design and programming applications) but generally I think the whole build quality issue is propogated by people who went from a £300 Dell to a £2000 Macbook.

     

    I've never had one myself. My girlfriend has a Macbook Pro from 2011. She thinks it's really good that it's still going. However it's really slow, she's had to replace the charger 5 times now (at about £60 a time), and now the trackpad doesn't work which she thinks is due to a swollen battery (apparently a common issue with Macbooks) so now needs a new battery. So she's spent over £300 just to keep an old laptop working.

     

    I have 2006/7 Dell Vostro that I bought second hand for £75 in 2010. It's a bit sluggish but works fine. The only issue is that the battery doesn't connect very well, so you sometimes have to disconnect and reconnect the battery a few times before it will register (also the battery life is shit).

     

    Most of the stuff about Apple quality is nonsense and not backed up by evidence. If you have a specific requirement for a Mac then go for it. Otherwise save your money and get something just as good for half the price.

  10. Posted

    Unless you want to buy a property prior to April 2018. An important distinction to make.

     

    True. If you're not sure when you want to buy it's probably a better idea to wait until around Feb 2018 and change it then. You'll still have 2 months to top up the difference (£2400 max per year for H2B compared to £4k per year for LISA).

  12. Posted

    Anyone with a Help to Buy ISA should change it into a LISA come April. The bonus is the same, but you can invest more each year, don't have to invest it in each month, and can be used towards a house with a bigger value. The Help to Buy ISA is capped at properties with a value under £250k outside London. Here that will get you a 1 bed flat and nothing more. Whereas the LISA can be used on properties up to £450k.

  19. Posted

    My bloody boss! We have a big development committee meeting coming up next week with all the governors for the school so I wrote up an agenda and a load of information they would need. She then decides none of it is needed and I should just send out an email saying "looking forward to seeing you on Monday". The chair of governors sends a really angry email back asking why we arent sending out all the usual information so my boss rings me on my day off and acts like I never told her to do it in the first place and asks me to put together all the stuff!

     

    Did you mention the agenda to them in person or via email?

     

    This is why I always try to send stuff via email. Need to keep a record.

×