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Now will you lot start your own topic in Chat Central - 'Eeee I never knew that' You will have Brian to answer to if you keep drifting off the original topic! “Et tu, Brute?” -------------------------------- As for Nos 23 & 24 "Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 hours ago, John Fox (foxy) said: Canny lass, have you not noticed the deliberate mistake with numbers 23 and 24 13 hours ago Canny Lass replied I looked at 23 and thought: that's the double of Eric Burns - must be a relation! I didn't spot Brian though! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updates I have to do :- Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey. No 25 = Yvonne Brown Julius Caeser (aka I Brutus, or is it, Eee Brutus ) So is 23 Eric Burns (not Brian Burns) & 24 Brian Goodall (not Eric Goodall) ? “I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.” And I says :- “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones”

Last update of the day = Act 5, Scene 1, Page 6 :- “O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! But it sufficeth that the day will end And then the end is known.”

The 'dig up your plants veg' bit had me wondering too. I need at least another month before I can even get my radishes up. Hackles, on the other hand, are up already.

The #1 thing to know is exactly what powers it. If you don't find this out BEFORE you part with your money you are building for a disappointment, and could end up with something that's almost obsolete before you hit the on switch. If the device is Intel powered this is relatively easy: The site http://ark.intel.com/ has all the Intel products that you will ever encounter, even very old ones and ones that haven't been released yet. Get the CPU model number from the manufacturers specification and paste it in to the search window there. There's one thing - and really only one thing - you need to look for and that's the line that says Lithography. As of today's date if that line doesn't say 14 nm you are buying an obsolescent product with much lower battery life than you need to. The shop simply won't tell you this, as they need to move this product on quickly! Here 22 nm is NOT better it is worse, and 32 nm is an antique! There's another website (though it's not the only one here) that is good to check with, and that's https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ This site will give you a fairly good idea of how much performance you can expect from that CPU. They quote this as a PassMark figure. PassMarks of less than 500 are really poor these days, and even a tablet should have one going on towards 1000. This site helps you compare prospective purchases for computing power. Intel's own designators (e.g. i3, i5, i7, Core M, Celeron, etc.) are simply a marketing exercise, and not to be taken too seriously. Of course the car isn't just the engine, and there are other things to consider; particularly the amount of RAM memory (and whether it is permanently soldered-in or upgradeable). But, the above can help you rapidly weed out the stuff you shouldn't even be considering.