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On 09/08/14 22:16, Gordon Henderson wrote: > a bunch of really informative stuff Now you've kind of put me off. I know that I want one of these, but I do NOT want the sort of hassle you've been dealing with. I'm pretty confident, but "I had to unsolder that and buy a full-size one" are not words I want to see. I can probably do that, but I don't want to. I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy, and if I spend a lot of money on some cutting edge awesome tool I categorically do not want to have to take a soldering iron or even a screwdriver to it to make it deliver even 50% of what is promised on the blurb. Screw that. Irritatingly, my subconscious is still nagging me. Cut stuff. With lasers. Buy a laser cutter. You know you want one. I'm probably going to take another 12 month rain check on this. There is a whole lot of insanely awesome things that I check up on every year or so to see if they've got realistic (like solar panels: I got them a few years ago just before the government kick backs expired) and more often than not, I'm disappointed. Flying cars, etc. To disarm my materialistic desires, I simply reloaded the page a couple of times: Operating System: Windows XP (only) Are you kidding me? Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq