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09 Mar, 2017
A good flyer.
A nice, simple and reliable kite.
Easy and quick to assemble, just takes two minutes.
A good kite to launch and a very stable flier.
I purchased this kite for some simple research . It is a very stable flyer in steady wind conditions. You have to be careful that the wind force is not too strong or too gusty as this tends to give the kite a beating.
There are quoted working wind speeds that come with the packaging.
This kite is too good to be just a toy. But is probably better suited to educational purposes.
It doesn't do anything fancy. But it does what it should and it does it well. A major consideration to buy, is how fast you can assemble and fly it. Which is really fast !
For someone looking to buy this for education or research. I would highly recommend it.
30 Aug, 2017
Reliable Buy
This is a nice quality useful product. It's hard to be excited about a USB Cable.... until it goes wrong ! So without being over excited. This is a good long cable with solid connectors. Although it's only a few short weeks, since I bought three of them. I'm very pleased with both the price and quality of this product. To say the least, this cable is very reasonably priced. I anticipate several years' fair use from it. This was a really good purchase. I have no hesitation in recommending it to potential buyers.
11 Oct, 2016
A promising product that quickly proved to be a BIG let down
When I purchased one of these ( Early spring 2016) This looked like a very impressive product on paper.
Out of the box it initially worked quite well, but it's Achilles heel soon came to light. It was ageing stock and soon ran out of the manufacture's support. The computer came with Windows 8.1 installed. After prolonged 'nagging' from Microsoft. I upgraded the device to Windows 10. This initially worked ok. But after continuously wanting to install Windows Updates. The computer quickly became sluggish and slow to respond.
Things got worse. The computer was running really poorly with freezes and hangs. This culminated with what appears to be hard drive failure - not good on a device less than 6 months old !
In my opinion, there are several factors at play here.
Firstly - Windows Updates. Seem to be the downfall of many Microsoft powered devices.
Maybe you are better served to buy some top notch anti-virus software instead ?
Secondly - The HP Support was poor. Just chasing around in circles from a company that didn't seem helpful
Take note ! Quite happy to sell you something, but not offer support.
Thirdly - I wonder whether the Windows 10 upgrade had some bearing on the proceedings. Also my faith in HP has been really dented. After having several computers from this manufacturer failing in this way. For me at least, it's cast aspersions on the reliability of this manufacturer.
I can't really fault the supplier, because the machine was sold in good faith. I will mend the machine at my own expense because it's easier for me, without all the aggro of sending the machine around the country and losing it for weeks
But overall, not a good experience and one where you might think of purchasing from somewhere you can travel to, so that you can take your product back under complaint and be able to look the seller straight in the eye when you do !
This was an item that really looked like good value for money, but it quickly proved to be an expensive flop !
I make many reliable purchases on Ebay, this one was a BIG and expensive mistake . I certainly won't be repeating this process any time soon ! I replaced the computer with another and went to my local store instead. Enough said ;-)
Think hard before you buy.