Recent content by phibro934

This Initia 14" is replacing a previous PC Specialist Ultranote IV 14" (four years old, heavily used). Initial thoughts are very positive. BIOS is no problem to work with, and no problem getting Debian to boot from USB stick. Debian install fine, although needed a kernel from backports for the...

I'm tired of the lack of information. There's finally been a minimal update to the RMA. Whether this translates into a system returned in the near future is a different matter. Still nothing on the complaint. As mentioned earlier, I've been generally very positive to PCS. This episode has...

I've had four laptops out of PC Specialist in recent years. Two have developed faults. The first I gave up on sending back to them (power supply issues where the connector wasn't fitted to the board properly). The second died in less than three months. Weeks waiting for repair. Endless...

"Phone or email"? Ha. Endless waits on the phone (I gave up after realising the movement in the queue meant a wait of at least 1½ hours) and emails don't get a response for days. No acknowledgement to a formal complaint either. I used to recommend PC Specialist. Now I just want my money back...

I tend to plug my laptops into a monitor, but it'd still be 1080p rather than 4k. Two further thoughts: - How much better is the 2070 Super over the 2070? - Are these likely to be any use with a VR kit, e.g., occulus rift? Never played with VR stuff, but may as well make sure it's possible....

My current games laptop is a PC Specialist build from 2014 (Optimus Series, Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ, 8GB RAM, GTX 860M). It's struggling with games now…. Seems to get worse everytime Microsoft change something in Windows. So I'm now looking for something that will...

The email suggesting I post a review has been staring at me for a week or two (or is it more?) now.... This machine's an UltraNote 14" with IPS LED 1920x1080 display. I opted for the i5 option with 12GB RAM and a 1TB ATA HD. The second image has a ruler just about visible at the bottom of the...