I got an email from Aria this morning with what looked a very good price on a Samsung 120GB SSD. The 2.5 inch solid state drive they were offering was the 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD ( manufactures part number: MZ-7TE120BW ). The Samsung 840 EVO range of SSDs come in a range of capacities up to 1TB, the 120GB version is the smallest […]
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German supermarket chain a re advertising that they will be selling a Parkside soldering station for just £8.99 from the 22nd of January 2015. This seems an extraordinary low price, especially when compared to major brand soldering equipped such as Weller and Antex available from retailers such as Farnell and Maplin. I tried to find a review of this Lidl […]
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The electrical equipment you want to use is fitted with a continental style moulded mains plug and you are faced with a British three pin mains socket, what do you do? If it is just a one off you may get away with using a travel adaptor but this really is not an acceptable permanent solution. You could just remove […]
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I recently wrote about an old Sony salespersons training video that demonstrated the Sony LV-1901 combined Betamax video recorder and Triniton TV. I have since found the review below of the vintage Sony LV-1901.
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Misco are advertising refurbished Dell Latitude D531 laptop computers with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium for sale on their website. It comes with a twelve month warranty and a brand new 6 cell 4400mah battery making it one of the more interesting refurbished laptop deals I have seen. Having said that the Dell Latitude D series was superseded by the […]
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A few days ago I wrote about the basic desktop computer the Acer XC-603 being on offer at a reasonable price. Since then I have spotted an offer at Ebuyer that looks even more competitive. As I write this they are selling the Lenovo E50 desktop PC preloaded with Microsoft Windows 8.1 for just £149.99 with free next day delivery. […]
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I caught an advert for Currys on television yesterday and the item that caught my eye was a Shark upright vacuum cleaner. A look at their website revealed the model being promoted to be the Shark Rotator NV500 Lift-Away Upright Bagless Vacuum Cleaner. The product description reveals the Shark NV500 uses cyclonic technology and claims that unlike conventional vacuum cleaners […]
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Aldi are advertising that they will be selling a Vax Rapide Spring Clean Carpet Washer from Thursday 15th January 2015. Aldi do not give a model number but looking at the specifications they give for the Vax carpet cleaner they are advertising they seem to match the Vax W91-RS-B-A Rapide Spring Clean Carpet Cleaner. Looking at what others are charging […]
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Looking at the Currys January web site they are offering the graphite coloured Samsung ecobubble WF80F5E2W4X washing machine with 8Kg wash load and 1400rpm spin speed. The price saving advertised by Currys for this Samsung washing machine but a search came up with AO.com charging the same price for the white Samsung Ecobubble WF80F5E0W4W washing machine with the same wash […]
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A sales brochure for the office supplies company Staples fell out of my newspaper recently and on the back page was offered a desktop computer and monitor bundle for just £299.99. The desktop computer is the Acer XC-603 and the monitor a 21.5″ Acer S series model with 1920x 1080 full HD resolution. This looked a good deal and so […]
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