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| 12:19.46 | dick_turpin | Don't you just love being British? TV this morning after the tennis "Oh well we need to pin our hopes of winning something on Ennis then." |
| 13:17.25 | yaMatt | I'm very excited about the next GLLUG meet |
| 13:17.39 | yaMatt | just one e-mail to confirm everything, and I'll announce it |
| 13:18.59 | wethrin | It'd be good to get Gllug going again |
| 13:19.24 | wethrin | Other LUGs around the country can do well, with plenty of events |
| 13:19.36 | wethrin | London really should be able to do better |
| 13:19.55 | yaMatt | that was my thinking |
| 13:20.27 | yaMatt | I think part of the problem is that London is a bit too big |
| 13:20.55 | yaMatt | and there are loads of geek events happening every day anyway |
| 13:21.29 | dick_turpin | Plus all the best members don't actually live in London do they wethrin? |
| 13:26.28 | wethrin | dick_turpin: Indeed |
| 13:35.19 | gregj | http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5inch-Notebook-Accessory-Norton/dp/B005OK6VLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341840851&sr=8-1 |
| 13:35.23 | gregj | is it christmas yet ? |
| 13:37.41 | wethrin | http://isitchristmas.com/ |
| 13:37.47 | wethrin | apparently NO |
| 13:39.05 | yaMatt | would love to upgrade my SSD too |
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| 13:44.24 | dick_turpin | It is my birthday soon if that makes any difference? |
| 13:45.57 | gregj | wethrin: I mean, I can afford it . I'm just surprised, because link on the register said that drive is £240 |
| 13:46.10 | gregj | altho I probably need 512GB , co sI go tso much shit |
| 13:46.23 | gregj | still, cost of 512GB SSD is still less then buying new mac |
| 13:47.27 | wethrin | RRP is £240 |
| 13:47.34 | wethrin | Well, maybe |
| 13:47.40 | wethrin | There's a refurb one for £240 :) |
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| 13:51.59 | yaMatt | SSDs are coming down alarmingly fast |
| 13:52.18 | yaMatt | I expect 256GB SSDs to be under £100 by Christmas |
| 13:52.32 | yaMatt | SATA3 ones I mean |
| 13:52.48 | yaMatt | HDDs are still remaining stubornly high |
| 13:53.08 | yaMatt | they're still about £30 higher than they were this time last year |
| 13:53.58 | w1bble | spinney hard disks are still overpriced though |
| 13:54.17 | w1bble | shame cos I'd love to buy more SSD replacements |
| 13:55.26 | yaMatt | not sure about over priced, it's amazing how much storage you can get for £50, but even though the Thailand flood is well over now they are still a lot of money compared to before the flood |
| 13:56.14 | w1bble | just that, the artificial inflation of prices has held out, anybody would think it's been fixed |
| 13:58.00 | yaMatt | exactly |
| 13:58.25 | gregj | well, it is hard to let go of all that cash |
| 13:58.35 | yaMatt | I looked 3 months ago for a 2TB internal HDD, the prices are still identical |
| 13:58.37 | gregj | but at the same time, the hd prices going up actually caused few companies to flop |
| 13:58.44 | yaMatt | SSDs have dropped about 20% |
| 13:59.05 | yaMatt | gregj, not the manufacturers though ;) |
| 13:59.16 | yaMatt | gregj, were there actual reported cases of that though? |
| 13:59.48 | yaMatt | it's at the point for me where I have no faith in my my hard drives in my NAS but I can't afford new ones |
| 14:01.32 | gregj | well,I know of few companies that freezed pay raises, bonuses, etc |
| 14:02.01 | gregj | and let go some staff because of hd prices going up, and not being able to maintain margins |
| 14:02.07 | gregj | imagine if you got a product with a hd |
| 14:02.19 | gregj | and you have to sell it for 5% over the price it costs you to make it |
| 14:02.32 | gregj | and all of the sudden price of hds goes up by 100% |
| 14:02.53 | gregj | now you either force the higher price on customers, or you bit the bullet yourself - depending on the contracts you've signed |
| 14:03.38 | gregj | nobody expected prices to go as much as they did, any hardware manufacturer has this cell in the organisation that seeks the cheapest components, etc - because it is important part of the business |
| 14:04.07 | gregj | but at the same time, no one predicts prices of any important compoent to go up so much |
| 14:04.10 | gregj | for so long |
| 14:05.58 | yaMatt | ah, makes sense, yeah |
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