We are going to host a keyboard and mouse vs Xbox controller competition soon. We are going to settle the long debate of PC vs Xbox. We think that using a keyboard and mouse is far superior to using a control pad, Xbox players think different, so we are going to host a competition. We don’t have a date set yet but we will update and so as we have something confirmed.

Such PC’s start from around £500.

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Prices for hard drives have jumped by as much as 50 percent within one week, market research firm IHS said. About a quarter of all hard drives are manufactured in Thailand and it appears that all major vendors are affected in some way.

Western Digital previously said that it may see a revenue decline of about 60 percent in the current quarter and told German publication Golem.de that it will be able to produce only 22 to 26 million drives this quarter, instead of the planned 58 million units. A spokesperson said that WD “currently waits for the factories to dry” to be able to restart its manufacturing tools. What makes matters worse are the usually thin profit margins in the HDD industry, which means that manufacturers typically have only five to seven days of material supply.

A Seagate manager told CRN India that the company expects and “acute” shortage of drives and that the manufacturer expects prices to increase. However, there was no information how sharp this increase can be. Both WD and Seagate said that the floods in Thailand have created a problem for the industry that will take several quarters to resolve.

Thank you to TomsHardware & Golum.de for this information!

Annoyingly we have fell victim to the oil slick, newton rings problem.

We have been reading online that you may be able to fix the problem by putting the tab in the fridge for an hour or so. We think this is totally unacceptable! We bought the 16gb WiFi version for £400.00 not something that I fancy having to put in the fridge every now and again. We have also heard that putting a sucker on the screen and gently pulling may also temporarily fix the problem.

We took our tab back to PC World (where we bought it from) on Monday 3rd October. Annoyingly they wouldn’t swap it for a new one as we’ve had it for more than 21 days. So I was told they would get it sent back to Samsung urgently as they “understand my frustrations” and I need it back for work!

I have just been to PC World (Friday 07th Oct) (as they wouldn’t answer their phone) to see how they are getting on with my tab. I was so annoyed to find out that it still has not been sent off to Samsung. The cheeky guy behind the counter even said to me when I handed over my booking form “Oh yeah its the Samsung Galaxy Tab with the broken screen isn’t it?” I said “NO! It’s the stupid manufacturing defect!”

I then went to have a look at some of the other tabs as I want to get myself an Asus EEE Transformer with the dock. I saw their Samsung Galaxy Tab on display and was amazed to see that the one they had on display actually has the same oil slick problem!!!!

So we took a video of the problem which can be viewed by clicking the link below. Please like the video and / or leave a comment if you are also facing the same problem!

- Taken from Samsung Galaxy Oil Slick Problem

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1: Earth Yourself
2: Disconnect battery & charger.
3: Expose motherboard, by removing the back panel.
4: Remove RAM from the back of the motherboard.
5: Put the RAM you took from the back into the other slot on the front of the motherboard, under the keyboard.
6: Look for the soldered points hightlighted on the photo below

7:  Turn the laptop upside-down.
8: Open the lid (so you can access the power button).
9: Plug the charger into the laptop.
10: Take a length of wire and short out the two points highlighted.  The two points are quite large blobs of solder.
11: They are labelled PJP6 & PJP8. Not too sure about the numbers, but definately similar.
12: Turn the laptop on — still holding the wire in place.
13: Leave for 5 seconds or so.
14: Remove jumping wire.

Laptop should boot when you remove the jumping wire.  No BIOS/CMOS/Power On passwords!

HP is recognising what the world has recognised, which is hardware in terms of consumers is not a huge growth business anymore.

We had a walk through the City Center and captured West Midlands Police doing a brilliant job — LINK: http://goo.gl/cBloY

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As we had to close early on Tuesday and Wednesday, we apologize for any inconvenience caused.

This usually only happens in summer months of July and August, the best advise we can give is to ignore it, do not squash it. It will go in a few days time.  Taking your laptop apart will not help as the bug will actually be inside the screen.

Some advice we have seen on other forums is to turn off the laptop, put a bright desk lamp next to your screen, the theory is that the bug will be attracted to the light from the lamp. It seems to work.

Let us know how you get on.