Tag: hardware

  • Microsoft ruins Christmas!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I decided a while back to treat myself to a games console for Christmas and after some discussion, I settled on an Xbox 360. I would have bought a Wii except it doesn’t have a usable optical drive and we don’t have a DVD drive so I wanted the games console to double as a…

  • Komplett refunds me!

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    Tom Raftery
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    In a previous post about consumer rights, I mentioned how I had asked Komplett for a refund for a faulty drive they had sent me. Having read on the Consumer Association of Ireland website that I was entitled to a refund, not just the options of repair/replace which were offered on the Komplett website, I…

  • Your rights as a consumer

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    Tom Raftery
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    I bought a Western Digital My Book 1tb external hard drive recently from Komplett.ie and it was dead on arrival. I checked the Komplett site and was led to a page with instructions on returns I followed the instructions and received an RMA several days later. I posted back the drive and a week later…

  • Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II sucks!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I bought a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II external hard drive recently. This is a 1TB external drive. It wasn’t cheap. It was delivered last Friday and I went about installing it on Saturday. It doesn’t work. The lights come on when it is powered up but it doesn’t appear on the computer’s…

  • Dell's hellish batteries recalled

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    Tom Raftery
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    According to a report in the New York Times today, Dell is recalling over 4 million laptop batteries because of their propensity to catch fire or explode! Up to now the advice has been if you think your battery might be one of those likely to catch fire, take it out of the laptop and…

  • Flash-based laptops coming soon?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wrote a speculative post last September saying that laptops with flash drives instead of hard disk would ship in 2006. According to an article in Gearlog, Asus has just started shipping a flash based laptop! It is still very expensive The disk alone is being sold at DVnation for a painful $1199, which is…