A sad day

Today was a sad day indeed, it appears I need to put my hand in my pocket and replace my 7 year old laptop.

I returned last week with footage from my family holiday in Finland, at first I thought it was the software that I use as it's free 1080p. I had sound but no picture, I tried it in Windows Media Player and I still had the same issue.

I googled the fault and found I need a codec to allow me to view the video footage, I tried 4 different ways but in the end I went to Microsoft store and paid for the 79p codec and I could now watch the footage. But no I had the issue where when I pressed play it took forever to load and when playing it kept freezing and skipping.

I spoke to my friend, he felt the cpu and the graphics card were struggling to keep up, He told me to start up the xbox game bar ad look. I found the gpu at around 75% and the cpu 90 and above as well as the ram at 70%

He said adding ram to the laptop may help ease the issue, but when editing and processing video footage it will take an age to do, but we could not upgrade the graphics card or the cpu, so I could try more ram but I may be wasting my money 

At this time, all I can rely on is the person that knows about computers, so I guess it's time to look at replacing the computer.

What to do I like a laptop as it folds away and is portable, the issue with it is there isn't much you can do to upgrade it, so it's not very future-proof. My other issue is now with my children growing up they have some homework on the computer as it is now, so I need to start planning further down the line.

I took the plunge!

Ok looking in all the rooms I have to replace all the skirting boards in I have decided to get a mini circular saw.

I decided on a mini one as I have no need to cut huge bits of wood currently I need to cut a lot of 13mm thick pine wood at various angles to place on walls.

1st one I purchased was from Toolstation by draper it was 600w and cut to 27mm depth.

It looked to be what I needed, it didn't say if it did angled cuts bit it said max depth at 90 degrees so I purchased it.

On opening the box I found this plunge saw to just cut straight cuts  and allowed various depths so it was no good for what I intend to use it for.

I looked on Amazon and found the worx Wa429 it cuts deeper 46mm, can plunge and will cut to a 45 degree angle, video on the link. My only concern is it is 400watt and less rpm than the draper so it could stall when cutting.

It arrived Saturday in a sturdy looking hinged plastic box. 

Out the box it looks nice and felt quite light 

This is the back side where you can set the blade depth you require 

This is the front where you can set your blade angle 

These are the steel blade and the ceramic blade 

I had a quick go at cutting up some old wood at 45 degree angles and here it is not yo bad for a quick go