Am an iPhone 7 user. Had it since they were released and in recent weeks the battery is starting to wobble. It is also heating up after extended use.
Last week the screen on my Macbook Air buggered as well.
New laptop will be a Dell XPS or an HP Spectre depending on the deal I can find.
As for the phone, I hate Android so will end up staying with the iPhone for iOS alone.
As for an 8 or X? Forget it.
I bought the Dell XPS 15 last year. 4k screen, 16gb ram. Does absolutely everything you could possibly want it to do without ever troubling it, including editing 4k video. Can certainly recommend it but thats just opening up another can of worms on here!
I've had a Dell XPS 15 in 2011 and it has down everything I could have asked from it and has never gone wrong. I've had to reinstall the OS a couple of times, mainly, I believe, as I installed too much junk over time. I did buy an i7 so as to future proof it as much as possible but it cost me less than £700 - can't remember now but it definitely started with a 6.
I expect it to pack up at any time based on the average life of a lap top, but I have felt like this for years and it just keeps going. No replacements ever needed, all be it that I attach it to external monitors and have a separate keyboard and mouse.
I think, though, that most of these machines will last for ever these days - it's more likely that they will become obsolete when software and peripherals move on and don't support them.
Am an iPhone 7 user. Had it since they were released and in recent weeks the battery is starting to wobble. It is also heating up after extended use.
Last week the screen on my Macbook Air buggered as well.
New laptop will be a Dell XPS or an HP Spectre depending on the deal I can find.
As for the phone, I hate Android so will end up staying with the iPhone for iOS alone.
As for an 8 or X? Forget it.
I bought the Dell XPS 15 last year. 4k screen, 16gb ram. Does absolutely everything you could possibly want it to do without ever troubling it, including editing 4k video. Can certainly recommend it but thats just opening up another can of worms on here!
I've had a Dell XPS 15 in 2011 and it has down everything I could have asked from it and has never gone wrong. I've had to reinstall the OS a couple of times, mainly, I believe, as I installed too much junk over time. I did buy an i7 so as to future proof it as much as possible but it cost me less than £700 - can't remember now but it definitely started with a 6.
I expect it to pack up at any time based on the average life of a lap top, but I have felt like this for years and it just keeps going. No replacements ever needed, all be it that I attach it to external monitors and have a separate keyboard and mouse.
I think, though, that most of these machines will last for ever these days - it's more likely that they will become obsolete when software and peripherals move on and don't support them.
That's the crux of the matter isn't it. My Dell desktop is 11 next month. In human years, that's about 220 years old! In order to survive, it has needed a new hard drive (old one too small), new RAM and a new operating system. So, in a way it's a lot like Trigger's broom! But I'm waiting for it to just fall over one day as each new update for my OS seems to come with increasingly dire warnings about possible incompatibility with ancient machines.
Cabbles Snr - not that I got my name from him, has a pay as you go phone from a by gone year.
I once forgot that it doesn't take picture messages and accidentally sent him a picture message via text that i sent to a few others who have smart phones. It completely jammed his phone and it couldn't access his text messages from then on in
I had a baby ericsson. It was 99 I think. Quite a nifty little design but I remember buying credit for it (I was at 6th form at the time) £10, I swear it was gone in one phone call
I had a baby ericsson. It was 99 I think. Quite a nifty little design but I remember buying credit for it (I was at 6th form at the time) £10, I swear it was gone in one phone call
The Panasonic range. Started with a GD10 and moved up over the years until my phone was smaller than my little Jimmy. Putting the SIM card in was almost impossible!
I remember when I first encountered the word 'lol' over a text. Thought it meant lots of love, so I'd put randoms lols at the end of sentences to some girl. Didn't end well.
Remember walking into the Princess of Wales, aged about 23 with my first work mobile phone. I felt the dogs bollocks....
That's a satellite phone is it not? I had occasional use of one of those when in areas with poor regular mobile coverage! Weighed a ton. My regular jobbie was a Motorola DynaTAC brick. This was a phone provided by work, I could never have afforded one myself. I think it cost around £2.5k back then and you needed to lump around a spare battery because talk time was so limited. I thought I was well smart; everyone else thought I was a twat.
Despite not, really, wanting a new phone I ordered one as I think it makes financial sense to upgrade now before my current phone loses all of it’s second hand value.
From starting at 8am they still seem to be able to deliver them in six weeks which suggests that they aren’t in as much short supply as was rumoured. Probably a load rubbish so boost sales.
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I expect it to pack up at any time based on the average life of a lap top, but I have felt like this for years and it just keeps going. No replacements ever needed, all be it that I attach it to external monitors and have a separate keyboard and mouse.
I think, though, that most of these machines will last for ever these days - it's more likely that they will become obsolete when software and peripherals move on and don't support them.
I once forgot that it doesn't take picture messages and accidentally sent him a picture message via text that i sent to a few others who have smart phones. It completely jammed his phone and it couldn't access his text messages from then on in
I was in stitches
I had a baby ericsson. It was 99 I think. Quite a nifty little design but I remember buying credit for it (I was at 6th form at the time) £10, I swear it was gone in one phone call
I thought I was the shit when I got that.
And quite painful.
Or you made a phone call and ended up with £x.99 left, so you were always 1p off sending one last text.
I thought I was well smart; everyone else thought I was a twat.
Ridiculous how many I have got through!
This was the first I owned a hand me down:
Mine was grey though
Smiley winky thing.
From starting at 8am they still seem to be able to deliver them in six weeks which suggests that they aren’t in as much short supply as was rumoured. Probably a load rubbish so boost sales.
Was this directly from Apple or via upgrade?