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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    Cyber Monday saw me order a Dell Inspiron 15 with a Ryzen 7 5700u, 512gb M2 SSD and 8gb ddr4 3200mhz for £500. Memory was only 1 stick single channel but amazon had a matching stick of crucial memory for £21 so I'll run 16gb in dual channel.

    Should be here today, only downside is it comes with Windows 11 plus Mcaffe and whatever other nonsense I'll have to uninstall.

    Still, will keep me playing Football Manager and Openttd long past the point where my mobility prohibits me from getting to my desktop.

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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    I spent a lot of last week trying to find a gaming monitor for my Windows PC as I was getting desperate because I was using a work second monitor temporarily. It was a massively frustrating effort as prices for the monitors in my short-list were exactly the same across all of the major retailers, down the exact pound and pence!

    Eventually I stumbled upon a Samsung 1440p monitor on ao.com that had an additional 10% discount. It's this one here:

    https://ao.com/product/lc32g55tqwrxx...88921-258.aspx

    I ended up paying £269.10 with free delivery. It does the job although it is clearly a budget monitor and quite cheaply made. However, it has exceeded my expectations for picture quality and an immersive gaming experience.

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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    Quote Originally Posted by spacein_vader View Post
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    Should be here today, only downside is it comes with Windows 11 plus Mcaffe and whatever other nonsense I'll have to uninstall.

    ....
    Something nags at the back of my mind about MS allowing a downgrade in that situation, back to W10 (if that's what you want) but not for very long. IIRC, it's something like a 14-day window of opportunity, so if you're thinking of it, don't hang around on it. Or I might just be imagining I read that somewhere.
    A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".

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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    I bought a Ninja Foodi 11 in 1 as I was after a new airfryer and all the other features made it worth the purchase. Was after some computer speakers but I didn't pull the trigger sadly.

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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    I also forgot I picked up a bottle of Nikka from the Barrel,as there was a 20% event on Amazon Warehouse so got around £10 off it.

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    Re: Did you buy anything on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

    A few SSDs, SFX PSU, gaming mouse, Wireless IEMs, Whisky, some smellies and an ebike. That took care of a fair few xmas presents this year.

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