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I have used my Ainol Novo 7" for nearly a year. Very fast, responsive touch screen, I run many apps at once. The screen is beautiful. It does get hot while charging so I take it out of the leather cover then. No complaints.

Thank you for your feedback.

Climax,Patong.

PST

Thanks PST

For 340 Baht, I hope it's the real deal

SAMs steak house and la gritta Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Thanks for the leads.

What is the approx. cost at Sam's and at La Gritta?

For Windows, Lenovo are a good choice. Friends also like Acer and Toshiba. Avoid very cheap laptops - they are cheap for a reason... I avoid Asus, HP and Dell, as do many others.

If money is not an issue, buy a Macbook Pro. I have had many laptops and desktops over the last 20 years, most running Windows and quite a few on Linux too. Having recently got a 5 year old Macbook Pro, I must say that I love it more than anything else I have ever used... The build quality is outstanding and, to me, the operating system is a revelation. I won't be buying a Windows machine again, i'd now rather have a secondhand Mac than a new Windows machine.

I am awaiting the bombardment from Windows fanboys... No worries, I get the envy!!!

I use Linux all day at work (mint), have three Windows machine in the house, and the one Macbook Pro. Guess which I use the most? OS X is beautifully elegant and is a pleasure to use; Windows is FINE, but hardly elegant! We all have our own criteria and can make our own choices, but for me the elegance of Mac is the trump... I feel spoilt using it!

Just saying...

Thanks everybody for the replies.

As I expected, there reallly is no clear cut winner in any category.

I was just hoping a clear picture would emerge.

By the way, just looking for a mid price laptop (or inexpensive one) for my 8 year old son to use, mostly for gaming today and for my use, mostly for surfing the web and basic stuff. Nothing complicated or fancy or work related.

If you have any suggestions knowing this imformation, I would appreciate it.

I would like your opinion as to what is the best brands and service under warranty for laptops purchased in Thailand.

What is the best brand?

What is the worst brand?

What has the best service under warranty?

What has the worst service for warranty?

Thank you or your help.

I am having a hard time deciding what to buy.

Do you want to know how to make one?

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caesar_salad/

Thanks-already know how to make at home.

Looking to eat at a restaurant.

By the way, the recipe is perfect except it should also have worcestershire sauce added in as well and then it would be perfect!

Well, yes, but there are other flaws with this recipe. The eggs should be yolks only! Also, add about a teaspoon of a good dijon mustard and about the same amount of a high quality well aged balsamic vinegar. I would also double the anchovies to four filets. And if you are doing this from scratch, tableside, using filets instead of paste has greater eye appeal (who wants to see something coming out of a tube?).

I know there are no rules, but these adjustments do provide a finer finished product.

You are absolutely right.

How could I forget these important ingredients.

See, it's been soooo long since I had one

Thanks for the post

La Gaetana in town..

Thanks will give this a try.

The reason I said table side is that is usually the only way to get a real Caesar salad dressing made.

The Farang restaurant may taste good, but it is not the real Caesar dressing.

The dressing should not be white, it should be clear.

Do you want to know how to make one?

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caesar_salad/

Thanks-already know how to make at home.

Looking to eat at a restaurant.

By the way, the recipe is perfect except it should also have worcestershire sauce added in as well and then it would be perfect!

Does anybody know a restaurant in Phuket that makes a Caesar salad table side from scratch?

Thanks

I can't recommend the Ainol tablet. The store where I shop has had lots returned. I do recommend the Mach Speed Trio Stealth G2. I recently bought one and, although the display resolution is not as clear as I'd like, it's quite a good tablet. You can check it out on the Mach Speed website. Also, about three weeks ago, another poster mentioned a tablet that looked very good. You could search for his post.

Thank you for the reply. I will check it out

After much research, it looks like these 2 Chinese 10'1 inch tablets are the best.

Does anyone have any advice or knowledge of these tablets?

Pipo M9 3G Pro and the Cube U30GT2

Both sell for about $220USD

Thanks for any help

I saw an Ainol Novo 10 Forever tablet for sale on the aliexpress website.

Does anybody know anything or have any experience with this brand?

It is obviously a China made machine and uses an ATM7029 Quad Core

Price is approx. 6,000 baht.

Any advice would be helpful. Thank you

For anyone looking for a Holiday Season lunch or dinner. Foodland's, Took Lae Dee restaurants, will be offering a great looking turkey meal. It will have US Turkey, Giblet Gravy, Stuffing, Cranberry Jelly, Sweet Corn, Buttered New Potatoes, and Baby Carrots. Cost is 199 baht. I even heard possibly Apple Pie. If you haven't eaten at Took Lae Dee, they do have pretty darn good food, and a family atmosphere. This meal has been put together by an American Chef whom works for Took Lae Dee. November 28, Thanksgiving. December 24, Christmas Eve, late afternoon. December 25, Christmas Day, beginning with Lunch. Bon Appetit,

Can you please let me know where this restaurant is located.

Thank you

thanks for the dinner whats this? santa food? another american thing?

The first Thanksgiving was when the local Native Americans kept the original pilgrims alive by bringing them food and showing them how to live off the land during a hard winter.

We all know how the Native Americans were eventually paid back.........

English and India (Gandhi in jail, remember that one KB?), Australians and the Aborigines, Israelis and Palestinians, lets not go Patong Transpo woes drumbeat here o.k.?

Stoned Crab pub also having a gig in co-junct with the Navy League (back on topic).

Thank you for the revelent posts.

Does anyone know who will be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner?

dream-on-in-thailand-dot-try-work-for-your-a-living ;-)

Thanks for all your comments and advice, but most of you are missing the point.

I am not a trader of domain names and I know nothing about that business, I just wanted to see what the value of my domain name was now that I am not going to be developing it.

Just seeing if I could get any money for it, nothing more and nothing less.

To be honest, you would be lucky to sell any 3 word domain - unless the domain gets traffic, has PR, or has a large amount of exact match keyword searches.

I have sold a number of domains over the years, and most of my sales stemmed from being contacted via email through whois info, so it is important to at least make sure that your contact info is good.

If you have no interest in developing it, then I would offer it for sale on somewhere like sedo.com or dnforum.com, and if you get no interest, sell it cheap on a webmasters forum like digitalpoint.

Thanks for your post.

I originally was going to develop the site, but I now will not.

As i said, the price would be predicated on the potential for the site and the future, not the past or a parked, never developed website. That is why the value is so low, as you know.

I am a novice at this, so don't know if sedo or dnforum will work for me.

I would just like to sell this fast at a decent price.

Apparently it's only worth $16. Hardly worth the effort.

http://domainestimator.com/www.directfromthailand.com

Ha ha what a crap valuation site.

I happened to be looking at this site http://asiapropertyworld.com and put it in for a valuation. Result? Also $16 and the accompanying text said that there were no pages indexed by Google. This is a large site so I checked that as well by putting "site:http://asiapropertyworld.com" info Google with the result "About 199,000 results".

Best of all you get the same answer of $16 for ThaiVisa.com If George wants to sell based on this I'll generously round it up to $20

www.directfromthailand.com is a nice name but as has already noted something is only worth what someone else will pay for it.

Thanks for that info. It seems that website evaluation is a piece of crap.

Another website valued the domain name at $360. The link is below-

http://www.valuate.com/

As I stated before, the value is only worth what somebody else is willing to pay and everyone has an opinion as to what is a good domain or not.

I guess the main thing is what you do with the domain name to make either your business or website successful.

Apparently it's only worth $16. Hardly worth the effort.

http://domainestimator.com/www.directfromthailand.com

The reason it has a low value on your site is because the ebsite has never been developed.

It has just been parked.

There is very good potential for this site if developed, but the value of anything is always what somebody is willing to pay for it.

Potential and wisdom sometime make people a lot of money. Everyone thinhks diferent and that is why there are successes and failures.

Thanks for the info.

I have an excellent domain name related to Thailand that I would like to sell.

It is great for product sales, exporting or anything related to Thailand.

directfromthailand.com

What is the best way to sell this domain name?

Thank you

Looking for Mandarin speaking Chinese people for a new timeshare concept in Phuket.

Ned to fill the followin positions-

sales rep

collections

member services

flybuy coordinator

Thank you or the replies and suggestions.

Th hunt continues.

By the way, I am not computer savvy and that is why I need somebody to do the work

Does anybody know a good and reasonable web designer in Phuket?

I need a basic web page designed for products to be sold and have it both in English and Thai.

There will be many websites to design. Thanks

Thank you so much everybody for your replies and encouragement.

On a personal note, this is very hard for me and my family and it is nice to know that I have a good chance to get what is legally due me. As you all know, it is hard for farangs to get a job and one that pays good money, so this hurts.

I wish everybody all the best and hope this never happens to you!!

I had a different topic last week and now I have an update and a different situation.

My company is trying to make me quit instead of letting me go so they won't have to pay my 3 months compensation after termination.

Last week they gave me 30 day notice to leave verbally.

Yesterday they told me I had 2 options- I can quit or I can stay, but they will lower my salary by 30,000 baht per month.

Of course I will not accept the cut in salary.

My question is, can they cut my salary and force me to choose?

I thought I once read that a company can change your title or position, but they need to continue to pay your original salary and can't cut your salary.

Is that true?

Thanks in advance