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I'm sorry to say that CoS Forums is going to shut down in the Summer, sometime around July. This isn't an early April Fools joke either.

The Forums have become quite expensive to run and manage. There's a lot (LOT) less traffic coming to the site these days as Harry Potter becomes less of a topical debate for people.

I held on for a while after the last film, wondering whether JK would announce anything surprising, but I find that even if she did it wouldn't serve to help the diminishing numbers on the site or my bank balance!

Myself, I've been absent a lot more in the past year as personal issues have taken over and I've had to work longer hours, to earn more money to keep the forums going as well as pay for things like rent, utilities and god knows what else.

Some of you will be sad and I'm sure others will be happy. I'm not doing this lightly and I could have closed the site last year but held off. I know this may upset some of you who've come to see this place as a haven with friends and I'm very sorry it has to go but I've kept this place going with money out of my own pocket for 10 years now and it's no longer financially viable to do so. Please understand that this is not an easy decision!

Some of you may wish to offer to help, to donate or even take on the site. Whilst I would listen to any suggestions, I will not accept donations as this would be unsustainable in the long-term. If you wanted to take on CoS, be aware that you would need to find $200 per month and to be honest with you all I'm not sure I'm prepared to let the site be taken over by anyone. I've created a thread for comments. The other staff know only as much as the above. There is no Plan B as far as they are concerned, so do not pester them for answers to questions. If they do not know, they are being totally honest.

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Many thanks to everyone who for the last 10+ years have worked in one way or another on the site. All the staff, past and present who gave their time and energy to making the community work. Every single person gave their time for free and were never paid for their efforts. It was a labor of love for all.
Many thanks to the members, those who came & went and dared to stay. Every single one of you who contributed to the site, to the discussions and events. You were the ones who made the site what it became, from the all the book releases to the heated, sometimes famous debates about all sorts of topics. You made CoS what it was. So thank you.

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Old August 26th, 2011, 10:17 pm
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PC all the way. I've used Macs before (the old '80s Macintosh, iMac, MacBook Pro) and I've never been able to figure out what the big hoopla is. They're over-hyped, over-priced and overrated.

I'm also a very visual person. I prefer things looking nice. The Mac OS interface is so ugly.


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According to Siri on the latest iPhone, you'd be better off buying Nokia.

SMHApple has leapt to repair an embarrassing bug that last week caused the personal assistant app Siri to declare that the Nokia Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever.

Apple fixes Siri bug that declared Nokia Lumia the best smartphone


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Old May 17th, 2012, 5:20 pm
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I'm not sure how true this is but apparently Siri will respond with iPhone if you ask which is the fourth best phone.


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PC, it's just what I've always haved.


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PC all the way! I find it a lot sturdier and more compatible with other types of gadgets/technology etc. And it's far more reasonably priced, lol.


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According to Siri on the latest iPhone, you'd be better off buying Nokia.

SMHApple has leapt to repair an embarrassing bug that last week caused the personal assistant app Siri to declare that the Nokia Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever.

Apple fixes Siri bug that declared Nokia Lumia the best smartphone
And now, according to Apple's CEO, you'd be better off using another map app because Maps is rubbish.

SMHApple Chief Executive Tim Cook apologised to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services such as Google Maps instead.

Apple CEO apologises for maps, recommends rivals


Kudos to Cook.


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Apple's maps was half baked, I doubt Steve Jobs would have released it in the state it's currently in - Alpha/beta stage.

I have Windows 8, like it so far. Learning curve is steep. Lack of a touchscreen is not a problem as you can simply press the windows key and D to bring the desktop up. No need for a start button as the start menu is where everything is easily accessible. I tend to adopt new versions of windows early. So far Java is the only thing that refuses not to work.


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Old November 2nd, 2012, 1:10 pm
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As per my own experience MAC is the best ever so. It provides a much better functionality than PC.


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