“Shiny showrooms exist to extract as much money as possible, but any amount goes towards a sales target”
It’s nothing short of blasphemy to confess that my favourite piece of tech will never appear within the hallowed pages of PC Pro. It’s an essential gadget that I’m never far away from. I try to limit my time with it during the week, preferring to wait for the weekend to thrash it through a battery of programmes and extract some serious performance. I’m referring, of course, to my beloved washing machine.
When my loyal Bosch died of exhaustion a few months ago, the search for its replacement became rather forensic. The requirement list included specific dimensions, preferences on water input/output and three deal-breaking features: a 10kg drum, sub-60-minute mixed cycle and a timer. Hours of digging through handbooks, websites and reviews ensued, with the Candy Rapido RO16106DWHC7 my final choice. See, it’s not only PCs that have daft names.
The point of exposing my dull infatuation with certain white goods is to show the importance of buying the right machine. Our wholesaler’s stocklist shows around 400 laptops and it’s similar for
