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Thank you for testing folks, appreciate it. And thanks @Stonehedge. Note to self: In future, if in doubt with anything, PM Stonehedge directly! You know everything, sir!

Can some of you do me a quick favour? I am about to start teaching Adobe Premiere Rush, which is the mobile version of the Pro. I have Apple devices through and through and so downloading is not a problem. Have tried a few colleagues with Sony, Samsung and a couple of other Android phones and they have all had problems downloading or even searching Premiere Rush through their play store.

Can you try to download the app for me and let me know if it’s a straight forward affair?

If not, can you screen grab what you can see?

My pic shows you what the app logo looks like.
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Until her boyfriend complaints that it can’t do Photoshop and it’s not a Mac. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Didn’t think about your type of job... 😬 get a refurbished Dell and do that trick where you order and cancel so they call you to offer a discount? Not sure if it’d work with refurbished units. But folks were just talking about order and cancel and they got discount.

Otherwise, if it’s just for Internet, a friend bought a laptop for £199, it can’t do anything heavy obvs, but she seems happy enough using it to write, Internet and the odd bits of movies.

Fair point. I was just thinking the amount people at our work who use their work issued laptops for everything. Half the people Ben carry theirs with them everywhere as if they were their personal laptops...

Why can’t you use your work laptop for personal stuff? Everyone does that, no?

Got Patch a cat tree by the window so she could sit and watch the world goes by.

She is like - what the fuck?

They don’t do them anymore. When they offered to trade in my old ones I asked. Can’t remember the reason.

Tell them you really can’t afford it unless they knock another 10% off...

Not buying another computer of any kind for at least 3 or 4 years now... so they can give me all the discount all they want... but I will be sure to tell my students as Alienware seems to be very popular with those who do VR/AR...

They are certainly keen to collect your details, when I was still deciding on Alienware vs custom build. I emailed them with a couple of quesitons re: upgrades, nothing they couldn't just answer there and then, but they insisted I need to give them my phone number and full address and when I emailed back to ask why, they never bothered replying...

Really? Dell does that? That’s interesting! 🤔

I think we should all post our referral codes on the top page and people have to roll a dice and pick that one.

It’d be fun!

@MCamb! Your turn! The codes I have will last me the rest of this year.

What Sumo says... I just buy these things because they look nice... :-P

By the way, if you are after a full sized keyboard with the number pad, they had a KS few month back for that and it might be available on their website by now...

I do have 1 quesiton, when OCUK tested the PC, they must have connected a couple of their Bluetooth devices to my PC - Damien's iPhone and a pair of headphones. No matter what I do, I cannot remove them. I have already uninstalled them from the Device Manager, ran Bluetooth troubleshoot and restarted the machine, but they are still hanging around...

Any other idea?

PC came back yesterday, front USB ports now both work as expected.

Bluetooth seems OK so far, will have to test it for a couple of days to be certain.

Had a slight issue with reactivating Win 10 as I didn't know I had to deactivate it first if you need to replace major parts, motherboard is one of them. However, a phone call to Microsoft sorted it less than 10 mins, so all good.

Also, strangely, or not, the sluggish mouse thing when the USB receiver was pluged into the back is also gone... not sure how this is resovled, same mouse, same placement of the PC... oh well...

So keeping fingers' crossed Bluetooth is resovled properly.

Thanks everyone for your help and espeically thanks for pushing me to send it back right away and the tip on insisting on the 30 days returns / refudn rights, otherwise, OCUK would just send my PC back and say no fault found, charge me a tenner for 'testing', which is still what they believe with the old MSI motherbaord...

Too often. Patch is a professional vomit-nator

Thanks. I am more thinking about catching the train from Euston. Going to Euston from home is a bit annoying and cycling is straightforward...

A somewhat weird question - anyone knows anyone who studies or works at Coventry University, the campus that is actually in Coventry.

I need to go for a conference next month and thinking of cycling to and from the station otherwise it’d be a combo of walk / tube / bus / train, which would kill me...

Wanna know if around the campus I am going is generally safe to lock up bikes / if there are usually enough places to lock up bikes etc etc

I’d cycle all the way if I could...

Night night...

This is it, if it’s the case the I don’t want to send it back again as they are actually working on it tomorrow or Tue. They have now had it longer than I have. If it wasn’t for the discount the agreed and the fact that I can’t return the Win 10 copy. I would have asked for a refund...

So I should get my PC back in a couple of days but I suddenly have a thought to the problem of the front USB ports, and sorry if some of you have already stated the obvious before (other than my wasting my time on this build)...

As I have said before, they work independently fine but when I put in 2 things, only 1 port works. It’s not a power drain issue as the combo I tested are a mouse with a flash drive or something... Some of you have said it’s a dodgy cable, but isn’t that one of the cables from the case itself? So swapping the motherboard wouldn’t solve the issue then? When I first spoke to OC, they said it was missing pins on the motherboards so which is which? Like I said, the ports work perfectly fine as long as only 1 of them is in use and when I looked inside the case, I think I saw 2 separate cables from the front ports... and I presume the pins are on the motherboard not the cables?

They are still going to swap the motherboard as the Bluetooth definitely is related to the motherboard...

And I am not doing very well with our forum cats pronouns, am I....

Got another kitty’s gender wrong...

Think I need some training... 😳