I use Chrome for browsing but have been having some issues lately on sites such as Hotmail and iplayer.

Basically the links on Hotmail have stopped working (i.e. Inbox, Delete, Read) and on iplayer I cannot play any videos (the play button does not appaear, just a black rectangle where the video usually is).

There may be issues with other sites too but I don't tend to go online all too often so I'm not sure.

Anyone any ideas why this is, or rather how to fix it? I thought possibly a Flash Player issue? I am experiencing the same problems when on firefox too which suggests it must be a software issue?

Starting Uni next month, so need to invest in a laptop.

Football Manager 2012 (when it comes out), internet, Windows Media player, and Office programs are all I will really be using.
Want to be able to play FM at a decent speed, with a good few leagues loaded etc.

Won't have a massive budget (less than £400), can anyone recommend a decent place for laptop shopping? Never bought a laptop before, only computer I use is the family desktop.

You want lots of RAM for FM, a decent speed hard drive too, CPU isn't critical but check graphics requirements for FM12.

Tesco, PC World (yes I know) and Comet have some decent deals on Toshiba and Acer, You should be looking at a decent Core2Duo CPU, 3-4GB RAM, Windows 7 64bit and 320GB Hard drive as a basic machine, anything else is a bonus.

DO NOT buy software before you go to Uni, students get massive discounts there are always good offers around for freshers, the full office suite for £49 was one last year.

Cheers mate, that will make things a bit more clear.

I like the look of [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/268391-acer-aspire-5750-laptop-lx-r9702-072this one[/url for the price.

I might be wrong on this but isn't the CPU precisely what you would need to run a lot of leagues on Football Manager?

That's a reasonably decent deal and should do all you want.

But any modern CPU will handle anything FM will throw at it, the bottleneck is RAM, the more data you can hold in RAM the better.

There's always Software4Students that can be used in advance of starting Uni. Full office is under £40

Aye that's who I was on about, last time I looked it was £69 must have started the offers early, don't you have to have an @ac.uk email addy to use though?

I think there's a few other TLD's you can use, but they're all education related.

Not for Microsoft software, parents can buy on a student or pupil's behalf.