[quote:3496ace15f="WaypointCharlie"]SRS are doing it in black for £395 with 2 year guarantee

]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PENTAX-K-50-18-55mm-WR-NEW-BLACK-UK-STOCK-2-YEAR-GTEE-...

I hope you bought one!

Their extended guarantee looks good 3 years inc. accidental damage for £30 assuming that it's tagged onto the normal 2 years i.e. 5 years total.

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It's a web only (home delivery offer) you can't have it sent to a store. They aren't in stock either hence the quoted 21 days.

Won't the purchase date be the dispatch date? i.e. up to 21 days?
They don't take the money from your card until it's dispatched.
So I can't see it qualifying for cashback unless you can go and pay
for it at a store before the 10th.

It looks to have a fold out beer tent at the back to me
I wonder where we are supposed to keep the barrels

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None of the previous Windows OS were slow..... It was the hardware that was slow
If you put 32 bit Windows NT on modern hardware everyone would complain
that it was too fast.... at 8 MB total it would load in about 2 secs.

My main reason for liking XP Pro is that the best filemanager ever made plus
FM stepup runs well on it. It runs on W7, but confirm copy doesn't work the
same as it doesn't work with Explorer. So you accidentally move
files to where they don't belong.

Windows File Manager available free from.......

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~davidsch/vistafm/

http://www.brydon.net/winfile/default.asp

Try opening about 50 network drives in Explorer

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I forgot to mention that there is also a free CD/DVD bootable version of Minitool PW (probably Linux) which would have let you
GPT format the 3TB drive without W7 getting in the way.

The 2TB will probably be easier to BUP etc.

It was to avoid confusion. (Who Microsoft avoid confusion! ) They had already used 9x with 95 and 98.

I don't really like any of them and will stay with XP Pro for general use and W7 64bit for editing.

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There isn't much in it with the better ones and there are some slow i7's

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4993/11/intel-core-i3-4330--i5-4440-review-affor...

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Minitool PW can....

Convert disk type between MBR and GPT without data loss to support 3TB hard disk.

So no need to delete partitions to change them although with MBR you will only be able to access 2TB.

Is the drive brand new and could it have been previously formatted for a Mac?

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