A brand new tower system for £9.00 plus £2 UK delivery.
Same(ish) price from 3 other sellers,
Shipped from Canada, as well!
Must be my lucky day.
Or not.
Dave R
OT - shurley shum mishtake?
Mar 16, 2016
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Any bets that what turns up *isn't* a mobile phone case?
Item Weight 41 g Product Dimensions 16 x 10 x 7 cm Sold by luluworld (!) Shipping weight 7 Kg
Is it for real? I know I don't get out much these days, especially when it comes to modern hardware, but are they really making towers that small now? Only a little bigger than a mobile phone! But why the big difference between item and shipping weights? Must be a lot of packing.
Still, for only £11 inc. P&P, can you go wrong?
There is something comprehensively f***ed about that ad.
The picture is of a smartphone.
Yes you can, that is a silly price for a simple mobile phone case like in the picture.
Not a tower as such but you can get computers *smaller* than a mobile phone ... ;-)
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Cheers, T i m
This is my smallest Linux box:
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(you don't have to belong to Facebook to see this)
Aww, that is tiny!
Unfortunately, Apple has you beaten by a long way. ;-)
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Cheers, T i m
Ah, but that's not Linux.
But we were talking of size, not OS. ;-)
Cheers, T i m
Thanks Tim and Bob. I must get out more!
At some time in the next year or so we'll be moving to a smaller property and will have to downsize massively, and a small computer or even a 'stick' in a smart TV would be very useful. Bob, what make and model is it?
I just ordered one.
Bert
I just orderd one, lets see what turns up.
Mike
You did notice that every other item sold by 'luluworld' is a mobile phone case? It just looks like an erroneous entry in Amazon's database.
En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:
"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds" -- Don Robinson
Me too
We'll see what turns up, and I have a screen grab should there be a discrepancy between the description and what arrives!
Good idea, thanks.
Bert
Which legally has no value. The discrepancy is so huge it's clearly a mistake and the seller is under no obligation to supple a tower PC at that price.
Tim
True. But not the whole truth.
NT
It's a hacked Zipit. Probably unavailable now, or hard to come by.
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