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Nothing wrong with that file at all.

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It is also the small details where Apple excels, like the Magsafe Power unit, with magnetic plug that keeps the Laptop from falling off the table once you stumble over the power cord

This is indeed a very good feature that I had forgotten about.

Or the fantastic track pad, which is the first one I experienced that makes the use of a mouse unnecessary.

Hmm. I detest the Apple trackpad. It's totally unusable for me.

I can (just about) use the trackpad on my PC laptop though I hate that also and normally only use a mouse with it.

Ah no, that's not normal. With your sync speed you should be getting nearer ten times that.

Leaving aside the possibility of running cables in your (finished) house, picture quality on a decent video sender is usually pretty similar to using a cable assuming that you dont have many concrete walls/floors between the two. So it largely depends on how far away the TVs are and what's inbetween. Perhaps you could describe the house better?

The other advantage of a video sender over cable is that it allows you to change channels from the second location (but you always only get the same channel in both places, of course). There are devices that can add this function to a cable-based system aslo. The Powermid for example.

The final advantage of a video sender is that it provides stereo sound which RF cable will not.

Why did you not just deposit the euro's straight into your bank instead of going to all that trouble ?

I got a much better rate at the money changer than I would have at the bank. About 40 satang per Euro, I think.

Just use a wireless video sender with return remote control path.

250B/month will be expensive in the long run.

I'm supposed to be on a 6Mb line but my speedtests are like 400k download

400k WHAT?

400Kbytes would be entirely normal for your line. 400Kbits would not.

Per ardua ad astra.

I'll vote for that.

Enough for me to get away.

I bought my house from Alan Bolton and can tell you it is no longer listed on their website.

Nor indeed are any condos in the (popular) buildings I am interested in. I'm not sure why?

What's wrong with Jomtien?

Seems adequate to me.

You hear stories of 20 year old men being convicted of sex crimes with their 17 year old girlfriend,

Worse. You hear facts about persons under the age of 18 being accused of sending nude pictures of themselves to their partners, also under 18, and possibly ending up on the sex-offenders' register as a result.

America's morals are totally corrupt and perverted. They have abdicated any right at all to dictate their nonsense elsewhere.

I wont even start on American religion which defies any sensible analysis at all.

Doesn't anyone know or like..... S C H N A P P E R?

Red Snapper (if that's what you mean) is delicious. Used to buy frozen fillets (from Thailand or Senegal) all the time back in Europe. Very cheap indeed. The frozen ones were small and I always used to just fry them in oil (no flour needed) and serve on green salad but I dare say they would be good in batter also, if larger.

I just looked out of my window but there are no Cambodian tanks in view yet. Yawn.

Let me know when they get to Bang Saray.

the added on Satangs serve a purpose. it gives a handful of bored and frustrated farangs a reason to bitch about Thailand in a public forum.

What do you know? It worked!

Nice to see something effective.

To help the OP, try this website. I have not worked with them personally, but it contains a pretty decent listing of the various housing developments in the area (along with condos).

http://www.jomtien-p...dex.php?p=index

Far more than half the properties listed on that site are sold or otherwise not available. This is VERY annoying and hugely time-wasting. This agency is not the only one with this fault though. Most of them have it. They should all wake up.

The actual people working in that company (that I have dealt with) are very professional and as such I recommend them.

A property, any property, is worth precisely what someone will pay for it.

Property in general can be valued at the average price that is currently being paid for similar properties; not the price that was being paid x years ago, or the price that will be paid y years hence.

A property, any property, that is on sale for more than 2 months is priced above its worth or is just not being marketed.

Combine the above and it is very clear that much property in Pattaya is GROSSLY overvalued with vendors waiting years for a loony to come along and pay what they are asking for it.

At the same time, I am astounded by the lackadaisical approach of many agents and vendors. Some of them just dont seem to care whether the properties sell at all. This is reflected in the complete inability of many agents to respond to a simple request for information about properties, their websites that contain many properties that are no longer available (in some cases much more than 50%), and the impossibility of contacting many vendors because they simply cant be bothered to answer the phone or reply to emails. Very third-rate, with just one or two glaring exceptions.

Here is what the internet speed is now;

57 Megabits?

(Falls out of chair laughing.)

How is your PC connected to your router? If you have wifi G then you can wave goodbye to getting more than a handful of Mbits from it. Maybe much less if there are concrete walls etc between them.

Try and find a large file on True's own servers (maybe some sort of video clip?) and download that. What speed do you get?

The speedtest you tried wouldnt be indicating in bytes rather than bits, would it?

Other possibilites are that True are throttling your connection for reasons known only to them, or that there is a fault somewhere between you and the speedtest server. Try another speedtest.

I think I should be looking at anything that has an intel processor

Apple is now "Intel inside" also.

You could also install Windows on your Mac and then use it as a Windows laptop.

That would indeed make it much better.

Or just buy a good PC laptop for significantly less total cost?

With the introduction of the unibody aluminium MacBook Pro, Apple's gone back to offering the best quality laptop money can buy.

Inside the flash aluminium case are the same parts you will find in many much cheaper PCs. Apple do NOT make parts. They design boxes.

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..... buy the 3 year Apple Care ....

Precisely. More expense.

You can buy extra warranty cover for PCs and all other white and brown goods too, not that I ever would. On average, extended warranties are not worth having.

Sure, the quality of a MacBook is unsurpasses, just look at this solid aluminium body, the finish ... nobody can compete with that.

That's just the glossy case I mentioned. Inside are EXACTLY the same parts you will find in many PCs. And so every bit as reliable (or not) as a PC containing the same parts. But much more expensive.

Why are people so easily swayed by what's on the outside when what you are interested in is what's on the inside?

But, I could not use my windows software anymore, had to find the OS X software and buy it (again) and get familiar with OS X. I can be done, but needs time. I still don't know how to drag and drop a file for copying somewhere and I still don't know how to call up a different (German) keyboard.

The wireless LAN is a nuisance, half the sensitivity of my still in-use Acer and thus frequent drop outs.

I did try to warn you about the huge costs involved. Unfortunately you are only at the beginning.

Apple wifi is notoriously bad: they are incredibly sensitive to which channel you use and so I would recommend changing your router's channel. This may sort it out.

You can change the keyboard configuration from the preferences panel (and you find that either in the dock or in the menu accessible from the Apple icon top left). Once you have told it you have multiple keyboards you can pick the one you want from the icon top-right (just like Windows).

Drag and drop is the same as on Windows: open two Finder windows (small W lol) and pull the file from A to B. Or, if you have a proper mouse with two buttons, use the right-click. Yes, I detest the Apple Finder too.

The OSX file system is a nightmare: all sorts of rubbish here, there and everywhere. And all sorts of folders with similar or identical names.

About the only thing I like about OSX is Time Machine, and even that has several faults and bizarre ways of working.

Do NOT rely on either iPhoto or Time Machine as your only copy of your data as both often screw up. Ensure that you have another copy of all your important data on another device (or online) and that is backed up using third party software.

I changed a similar amount of cash from Euros to Baht in Pattaya recently. I did it in 5 separate transactions over 5 days, specifically to minimise any possible loss. Each time, once I had the Baht in a front trouser pocket I left the exchange shop (I did it in a shop rather than at a street kiosk) and went straight to the nearest branch of my bank to pay it in.

Anything else would have seemed stupid to me.

Apple products are always grossly over-priced. Having paid over the odds to buy it you then generally spend the rest of its life paying more to Apple to use it. If it goes wrong (and they do, just as often as any PC) you will pay another absurdly high price to get it fixed.

I would never buy one.

Stick with PCs. Cheap to buy, cheap to use, cheap to repair, compatible with everything. And there is NOTHING an Apple can do that a non-Apple product cant do for half the price. The only difference is that Apple usually bring it out first, put it in a glossy case and fancy box and charge accordingly. People who buy designer jeans must snap them up, and more fool them.

On the other hand there are things that Apple products arent compatible with. Apple rely on the fact that most Apple buyers are more interested in having a glossy case than owning something useful. So if you have more money than sense, and all you ever do on a computer is check email and do a bit of web-surfing, then by all means buy an Apple.

Apple products are ideally suited to be-(designer)stubbled dillettante Steve Jobs look-alikes, or the equally pointless people who call themselves "designers". Gah.