Back in September 2016 I bought a Cosmos laptop from PCS. It cost £700 and runs Linux Mint. It's been great. Occasionally it gets a bit hot and fan gets loud. But otherwise, it's fine. I now use it for personal email, web browsing, iPlayer, Amazon Prime movies, and once a week I run an awk...
We just got a new Lafite III 14" Win10, i5, 2x 8Gb RAM, 250Gb M.2 and 2Tb SATA SSD. While setting up the laptop we've had some errors. I don't have full details, as my wife was using it at the time, but she says that when using Firefox she got messages (BSOD) that said low memory, and it...
A replacement for my dead Dell 17" Core 2 duo. I will run Linux Mint. Not really into gaming. I have a 250Gb SSD that I'll add, and at some point in future I'll add another 8Gb ram, or replace it with 2 x 16Gb. I've already placed the order for the Cosmos, but parts will take a few weeks to...
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/cosmosIV-17/ configured with i5, DDR3 8GB ram, NVIDIA GT 940M
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https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/cosmosV-17/ configured with i5, DDR4 8GB ram, NVIDIA GT 950M
Are both the same price (£634 on my spec with no OS, a 120GB M.2, plus arctic...
My laptop died. 17" Dell Inspiron 1750 (Core 2 duo T9600, EDIT: 4gb, not 8GB ram) running Linux Mint on a SSD.
The Cosmos IV i7 8gb (DDR3) seems a good value replacement, and I'll use my SSD in there.
I don't need portability (laptop gets moved to a table in evenings, runs on mains AC, and...
