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Doing a complete rebuild of my pc and decided to dump vista - best place to buy for best price? £130 on amazon (ouch) - any reason not to buy the OEM editions?

We all know 360 has issues but a LOT of podcasts I listen to have started moaning about the ps3 download and update service saying this can often take hours due to the set up of the ps3, where as th 360 equivalent would be a couple of minutes. Also that games take an unusual amount of time to install to harddrive - I know the 360 is dvd and ps3 blueray but x-platform games aren't that much different.

Also that voice chat playing games isn't possible, that they are introducing text chat instead (something that I think kick started the moan over yet another huge and long update).

Anyone else validate these concerns?

My PC after about an hour has suddenly stopped all net traffic. I can only resolve it by restarting the pc. Other machines, both wireless and wired can still get out through my router. I have tried disabling and uninstalling the wireless adapter to no effect. I have even tried uninstalling my browsers.

It is driving me nuts. I can ping some addresses sometimes but not others. I can't figure out the cause. I have no malware, spyware or adware or viruses that I can find.

Any suggestions please? Tried searching the net but get a lot of similar but not thee same problems or solutions I've already tried.

Wondering what the best apps to get were - games, utilities, rss feeds etc.

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wanting some point and click games that are compatible with windows vista (my moment of silence isn't).

I loved the old disc world and blade runner p&c - currently have serbia and the longest journey.

Sec requirements not really an issue (my pc can run crysis). Cheers.

am looking for a pc to allow me to manage my digital photos, music, a little home working (on reasonable complicated and big excel sheets at 10mb a piece), as well as a little gaming (I'm not talking crysis or anything that extreme (I have a 360 and other stuff for gaming) just some good old point and click stuff (like the new sherlock homes games) and odd RTS game).

My price range is £400 - I know I could build one for that but have neither the time (our existing machine is on it's last legs) or the knowledge so opinions / alternatives appreciated.

Oh and we are keeping our old monitor.

Looking for a bew pc with 4g - don't need anything else just hte pc. Want more than 2gb just to be a little future proof - like games and internet and media uses. hard drive not a big thing as may buy a back up (remote or lca.). Any recomendations?

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Looking to get this camera but can't get an answer on when it is in shops. Anyone know? I have tried contacting Nikon and had no reponse and retailers like Amazon seem to think it came and went in Jan (on the day it was announced).

I have SLR but would like a good compact digital for taking to the pub, park, parties etc. I want something with an optical zoom too. I was looking at the Samsung NV11 as I love the 5x optical zoom and the design is great. However I hear the photo quality isn't great, especially indoors (main place it will be used). The size was perfect for me to handle.

Our budget is about £180 and we live in London so any shops (I know tottenham court road is good but they're always busy when you want to ask with a queue of customers) would be great too.

He is 5 months old, so still a kitten, but tends to - out of the blue - have a nibble at our hands and feet. It usually happens when he's purring and this I don't get. I understand when we hold him and he wants to get down, but not sure why he is so purrie when he does this. He is usualy sitting with us quite happy at the time. Any idea how to stop him or if he will grow out of it?

I have checked for viruses, spyware etc but nothing. Just sometimes decides to kill my computer

My wife is looking to get fit for a charity assault course next year and wanted to take part in some kind of circuit training rather than simply relying on gyms. Any groups or other suggestions appreciated.

Need a new box for our spare room as our old one died. anyone any recomendations? I live in London so offers in stores appreciated too.

I have a W950i mobile and I want to put a few films on there for a long journey from my purchased dvd collection. I've never done this before so any software and advice would be great. Thanks.

I know there is a RSS built into the Opera browser but that means synching over my mobile network (£). I looked at AvantGo that can synch by connecting my phone to my pc, but it isn't compatable with my phone. Does anyone know of any other software I could use?

The operating system is Symbian UIQ 3.0 with a 9.1 interface.

I've just got a new w950i mobile and am transferring some cd's - it has 4gig of memory. However what's the most suitable transfer rate where no loss of sound can be noticed (it's a great msic player but it's still a mobile) andthe file size? I am currently using 96kbps.

I'm more used to ogg files (can get away with approx 40kbps plus the size is smaller & quality higher than mp3) and have little experience of mp3 size & quality issues.

Got a fish kettle as a wedding present & would love to use it. Any 'recipes' or tips welcome. Looking to cook for two but happy if leftovers of the fish.

(First sorry for the spelling). I'm approaching thirty (!?!) and am starting to notice that the police are looking younger and the noise they call music (Kerrang forever in my opinion). But I look younger than ever (and more hair) on my avataar...

We're off to see Billy Elliot tonight (5th October) and wanted to go for dinner first - but this is a part of London I'm not too familiar with. Would also like the place to be cheap (I know many restaurants do pre-theatre menus of in at six and out in time for the show). Type of food un-important - we'll eat anything :-)