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The manufacturer or the consumer? The manufacturer very likely doesn't care (if you need another new TV, that's another potential sale...) and let's face it, a lot of consumers just buy whatever the person in $shop tells them to, and in lots of those shops the salesman knows little more than what's written on the box about the product.

It sounds like you'd be better off doing it the other way round - junk on internal HDD, current on an external SSD - as USB3 has faster transfer rates than SATA II

OK well not too bad, I can live with external storage. Not ideal but not "new console" bad!

... you can't do that?

BTW, the XBone has dropped another few quid on Amazon, now £219.99 for the 500GB with Ori and Rare Replay

Yeah I will do eventually, even have a spare switch lying around to connect up all the devices in my lounge when I get around to buying one, just an expensive time of year and can't justify the spend when the WiFi works - for now!

@Garacesh - be tough to beat that for your friend looking for a laptop

Already using the one I own to connect a second router and extend the wireless range to the top floor. This is probably what I will do eventually, but cost

Convenience - I simply don't have an easy way of running a wire from my router to my PS4 at the moment. I'll sort it eventually, but it's not doable at the moment.

How about a 10" Linx tablet? I know that's smaller, but she might be swayed by the fact it doubles as a tablet... it's very cheap! Linx 1010 32GB with Keyboard and Antivirus - Ebuyer

BTW, Xbone streaming to Windows 10 is fantastic, leagues ahead of Playstation's offering IME - very likely due to the historically awful WiFi performance of Playstation consoles!

I picked up a 500GB PS4 with Uncharted Collection, LBP3 and a 2 month NowTV voucher for £250 which I was happy with (from Game, it was in store but I think online deal was similar). Amazon have some refurbs for £199 (console only). TechRadar seem to catch most console deals IME: The best Cyber Monday deals: PS4, Xbox One, TVs and laptops | TechRadar

Agreed, pretty poor turn out this year I thought. TVs seemed to see the biggest savings, Jessops have had some good deals on mid-high end cameras too (not much on the budget end I was looking for though!) Last year, I got most of my christmas shopping done, have hardly bought anything this year (apart from an XB1 for myself... oops!)

AKG K451 - they're some of the best headphones I've ever used (What Hi-Fi agree) and an absolute bargain at the moment for £38: http://www.amazon.co.uk/AKG-High-Performance-Headphones-Microphone-Compatible/dp/B005LBQ7BY/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1448884320&sr=1-1&keywords=akg+headphones EDIT: BTW, it's a 'real' bargain - I paid £70 for mine and was chuffed with them at that price, would snap them up for anyone looking for a pair at this price. Just my 2p

Well I now own both consoles... turns out the black friday deals and my love of Tomb Raider were too much for my will power to handle.

1. The easiest way to achieve this (well, the way I do it at least!) is to export them already sorted like this from SIMS, then if you sort by 'Date Created' in explorer, you'll be able to see where each group starts/ends. Sort them in to folders, then run each folder through the script - it automatically does them alphabetically. An alternative is to use this version of the script, which should print by date created (untested, try a small subset first). Will still need you to order them in SIMS first, but cuts out the folder moving step: Option Explicit 'folder properties Const adDate = 7 Const adVarChar = 200 Dim Arg 'Script argument Dim FSO 'File System Object Dim oFol 'Folder object Dim oFil 'File object Dim oFils 'Files Dim myWord 'Word object Dim filePath 'Path to file (need for Word to open the file) 'Check arguments If WScript.Arguments.Length < 1 Then MsgBox "Drag a folder containing Word XML files onto this script", vbOKOnly, "Error!" WScript.Quit End If Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Arg = WScript.Arguments(0) If FSO.FolderExists(Arg) = False Then MsgBox "Drag and drop a folder onto this script to print the contents." Set FSO = Nothing WScript.Quit End If 'Get folder information Set oFol = FSO.GetFolder(Arg) Set rsFolder = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") With rsFolder.Fields .Append "Path", adVarChar, 200 .Append "Name", adVarChar, 200 .Append "DateLastModified", adDate End With rsFolder.Open() Set oFils = oFol.Files For Each oFil in oFils rsFolder.AddNew rsFolder("Path") = oFil rsFolder("Name") = oFil.Name rsFolder("DateCreated") = oFil.DateCreated Next rsFolder.Sort = "DateCreated ASC" Set myWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") myWord.Visible = True rsFolder.MoveFirst() While Not rsFolder.EOF If rsFolder("Name").Value <> "IndRepBaseTemplate.dot" Then filePath = rsFolder("Path").Value myWord.Documents.Open filePath, False, True, False, , , False, , , 8, , True myWord.ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout = False myWord.PrintOut False myWord.Documents.Close False End If Wend myWord.Application.Quit False Set myWord = Nothing Set oFils = Nothing Set oFol = Nothing MsgBox "Complete!", vbOKOnly, "Printing done" The interesting bit here is the 'rsFolder' part, which creates a sortable recordset of the file details - that's what you'll want to play with to alter the sorting used (assuming it works of course!) 2. unfortunately not - I had to ask our IT team to exclude my PC from the automatic shutdown for this reason (I run them overnight)

Seems a bit of a weak list for PS4 for Christmas though... maybe they'll ramp it up in January to entice people shopping in the sales? I suppose there's argument that anyone being bought a console for Christmas will already have chosen which console. I wish my PS3 hadn't died, it gets much better games out of PSN!

How well does that work? PS4 can do similar (only to the Vita, PSTV or a Sony Android device though) but the latency is shocking (on WiFi at least), most games are unplayable.

PS4, just for Rocket League (in all seriousness, it's an amazing game, currently PS4 & PC only but devs have promised other platforms so XB1 very likely in future) I have a PS4 and love it, but then I'm not "in to" any of the XB exclusives apart from Tomb Raider, but that's only a timed exclusive and I'm patient. The DualShock can be significantly improved by swapping the thumb sticks for XB1 thumb sticks, but it's still not as good as the XB1 pad unfortunately, that's it's only let down for me.

It's a completely different beast to an Arduino, much more powerful. You can get a WiFi dongle for a couple of quid if you need networking. This is a full PC on a stick, so it's a fantastic, cheap device to give to kids (or anyone else for that matter) who wants to learn to code in a 'safe' environment (by that I mean the worst case scenario is you reflash the SD card and they're up and running again) Personally, I'll be picking up a couple for some embedded computing (things like home automation, noticeboards etc.) to plonk around the house. They're cheap enough to just mess around with, worst case scenario I've 'wasted' £4. Arduino are great bits of kit, but they're not comparable to a Pi - neither is inherently 'better' than the other, they're just different.

Aside from the free Pi Zero, the MagPi is an awesome magazine - they're bringing back the days you'd sit in front of your computer typing in code from a magazine to make a game and I love it

You'll want to look at the 'School > Class/Group' focus areas in report designer. You can filter down by class or group name (depends how they were set up as to where they'll appear; only timetabled classes will appear in 'Class', whereas all groups will show in 'Group'), set the effective date if you want to look at the group retrospectively.

to Edugeek There are two ways to do it: - on the marksheet, right click the result and select 'View/Edit Result History', then select the result to delete and click the red 'X' - to delete a range of results, go to 'Tools > Performance > Assessment > System Utilities > Results', select 'Delete a selection of Results' then carefully follow the wizard to delete the results in question

Have you checked the LVDS ribbon is properly connected and undamaged?

I've never found an automatic way of doing this unfortunately. I add an aspect to each template, '[subject] Report Author', and staff fill that in. Also avoids any issues over some staff preferring Ms/Miss, or first/second/twelfth initial adding - they can put what they like! Do check it though before you go to print; I have had staff put just their first name!