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Just a heads up that at least for my laptop order, DHL Express tracking showed a saga about a mass shipment from China that got broken out…

There are masses of fake NVME and USB flash drives on AliExpress these days, which report anywhere between inflated and ludicrous storage…

Looks expired just now - price showing as $1,970.53

This drive uses SMR, so you probably don't want to use it for anything other than cold storage of large files:…

Similar, but fixed eventually: Just signed up for the Everyday Extra trial yesterday. Today, trying to use the Big W app to buy a G84, it…

I used to prefer manual, but that was when I lived out of town, did a lot of highway driving, and not that much creeping along in traffic.…

Looks like Samsung have decided that as MLC means "multi-level cell", instead of saying "TLC" they'll say "3-bit MLC". The SLC/MLC/TLC…

Got the L2750DW and yes, ADF can simultaneously scan both sides. Opening the scan flatbed gives simple access to both ADF scan heads for…

Definitely used to be a thing with old CRT monitors - there were even special monochrome desktop publishing monitors with "slow" phosphor…

FWIW, the Epic store also has the season pass for the 2 extra DLC packs in the Ultimate Edition on sale for A$9.19, until 7th Jan.

Hey, it could be perfect with the Bauhn 2.1 soundbar I bought: connected it to a new 27" monitor instead of its tiny speakers, and found…

This video shows side-by-side dual/single channel benchmark runs for Intel HD 620, which is close in spec to your chipset; in this case,…

APFS does lots more seeks than HFS+ when scanning file metadata, so yep, spinning media drives can spend most of their time moving heads…

"Many of the old plants". Care to name one? Not Liddell, according to those bleeding heart greenies at the Fin Review:…

Strawman much? Anyone can dream up an unpleasant hypocritical person, and mock that caricature. It doesn't make them exist. Congratulations…

Do they want new jobs, or other coal miners' jobs? http://www.tai.org.au/content/adani-s-automated-mine-risks-just-transition-coal-workers…

FIXED: Turns out my account was still associated with the US from the era before ebay.com.au

Fixed! I hadn't spotted the Live Chat, but that indeed turned out to be the issue and they've moved my account affiliation from the US site…

"This code can't be applied to your order." The item is not in any of the excluded categories, it's an AU item, and it's for $430. I do…

POSSIBLY EXPIRED: Can someone confirm if the offer still shows on their front page? I just got caught by this with a "buy it now" item (not…

Link needs fixing, it points to a Good Guys Commercial login page.

If you have a laptop with lots of RAM, hibernate/revive will be a lot quicker on a good NVME drive. 600MB/sec vs 2000MB/sec does make a…

[@c0balt](/comment/6060070/redir): Ah, Venezuela, the gift to socialism-bashers that keeps on giving. Unlike Bolivia:…

in a recent trivia quiz... Q: most common thing left behind in hotel rooms? A: phone charger :^)

[@Slippery Fish](/comment/4834000/redir): I was reading on OzB that the recent Aldi TVs have same OEM as Tempo brand? Comment is in this…

Nope. :^/ I was in at the first few seconds, but didn't realize that the stock was only allocated at moment of order processing, so by the…

HP Pro Slate 12 tablet is out of stock now.

You mean, like in New Zealand, which has the same wiring rules as AU (AS/NZS 3000:2007) ?…

From my experience with the "free" Click! compact fluorescent bulbs the NSW govt were giving out a couple of years back, I'd be wary of the…

This one is *much* smaller and lighter than a 2.5" external HDD. They basically package an mSATA internal SSD in a case with a tiny USB 3…