can anyone help me with this, my lad wants a laptop and pvr for xmas but thats costing way to much so could i run a pvr of a netbook?

I dont know anything about pvr's and was just wondering if a netbook would support the running of one.

When you record stuff does it save to the pvr or your netbook (he is wanting to record cod live games).



Posted this in games thread incase some people use pvr without recording gameplay

As a technology Luddite can anyone help me with this.



My wife wants an iPad for Xmas and I have been looking at the new ones, but some are WiFi and others are WiFi & 3G. If I bought the latter I know I can use the WiFi bit through my system at home, but what does the 3G do and do you have to pay monthly fees as in a phone to use it out of the house.



Thanks (and explanation will need to be written for a 55 yr old, not a 15 yr old

Apart from one that comes with a HDD built in they record to the computer and take up a lot of space and on top of that to render it etc you need a good computer so a netbook would be pretty much useless for the job.







For the 3G you would need a sim card and data plan.

Cheers, I'll skip that one and get the WiFi only I think as its £100 dearer.

It's highly likely nowadays that she'll be somewhere near a free WiFi service of some kind, certainly most of the times she'll actually want to use it.

My thoughts as well. I saw people using them in the hotel in Mexico and Egypt, so around UK should be good for free signals. I have seen other similar things (not Apple), which seem a lot cheaper, might need to do a bit of research.

And you can always connect to a mobile phone for the odd time you need 3G

indeed

Been thinking of getting something to convert my tv into a "smart tv"



I've seen that you can get a raspberry pi system and install xbmc on it for things like iplayer and 4od



there are also android boxes available.



Ideally I'd like something cheapish and capable of streaming flash video's, Don't think the raspberry pi supports flash and I'm not sure about the android boxes either as it seems flash isn't supported anymore.



My tv has a usb connection which supports most video files so being able to play files from it isn't to much of an issue.



anyone got anything similar? at the moment I just connect to my pc through hdmi but my desktop has a 650w psu and is quite noisy so seems a bit overkill to be switched on for long periods just for watching media (plus my mothers not happy about the increasing leccy bill!)

Going to New York in about 12 days and was thinking about picking up the new IPad Mini while I'm over there. The only thing which will be different is the plug adaptor right? Which I could then buy one back here?

Another not sure wether I would be better off with a 32gb version or just the 16gb?

Would it be really worth while me purchasing it from over there or buy one from the UK?

They don't come with the wall plug.

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"They don't come with the wall plug.'" Eh? They do come with a wall plug, so yes if you buy one in the US you will have to either buy a travel adapter for over here or buy a replacement which are £15 from Apple. store.apple.com/uk/product/MD812 ... r?fnode=3c

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"They don't come with the wall plug.'" Eh? They do come with a wall plug, so yes if you buy one in the US you will have to either buy a travel adapter for over here or buy a replacement which are £15 from Apple. store.apple.com/uk/product/MD812 ... r?fnode=3c