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Standard burger sauce, it's the same stuff that comes in a Big Mac

Weird take. If you get to play 4 new games this year when you've only paid for 3 then you're definitely saving money. Nobody is arguing…

@typhoonadventure > Gamepass is one of the worst value propositions ever. > You are paying heaps per year for gamepass, What, the annual…

I put a new Radeon 7600 into an old 3rd gen (!!) Z77 system, complete with DDR3 memory (32GB) and a SATA SSD. I think the CPU is an i7…

$290 for the 3050 LP is actually not terrible - but by the time you've bought that, this PC, an SSD, and some RAM, you're now between $400…

Yes, a drive like this is absolutely fine as a gaming drive.

Consider that the biggest files many people will see are game updates - they're limited by the speed of the internet connection anyway, and…

It doesn't really have enough RAM or Disk to run Windows - if you want a Windows 11 box then look for 16GB/256GB at a minimum.

Modern PCs barely use any power at idle - if it's not doing any hard work, then it won't use a noticeable amount of power. Obviously if…

Low profile cards are so expensive, that they don't make sense any more - you can buy an entire gaming PC, brand new, including a full size…

Great price for an 8th gen 🤟

It's an ITX board - you only need enough lanes for the 16x slot and the pair of M.2 slots.

This is not a thing. As mentioned above, if there's a "long haul business flight" that's always undersold, then it stops existing. Airlines…

>130 MB/s is more like portable hard drive territory. So it makes that SSD write performance even sadder That's not the write performance…

The last page of your linked review gives this drive a "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED" award and a "GREAT VALUE" award. The 460GB SLC cache is a…

This depends entirely on whether you spend >=$450 on Qantas flights every year. If you don't, then you're going to be spending the $450…

There is a bottleneck but it's not huge - the bigger problem is that this PC plus a Thunderbolt Enclosure plus the Graphics Card plus the…

> complain to AFCA about banks filtering churners from public offerings. What is the complaint though ? If the bank doesn't want you as a…

Drive trays need "slim" screws - use something like this https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/363128074789

Good, your Eneloop AAAs are already rechargeable.

You still need to pay for the cloud backup too - otherwise how will you replace your photos if you're hit by malware, fire, ransomware,…

Dunno about DP alt mode, but Lenovo only charge an extra hundred for the P12 ($370 including the pen) when it's on special.

LOL, you're losing *way* more than $17K by changing five times in 10 years - the CVT replacement is cheaper than your method.

> People also keep saying this doesn't meet "Australian standards". But what are those standards? AS/NZS 3112:2000 > If you can find an…

That's totally backwards - every day you wait is a day you *don't have a new laptop*. You could be using this machine for the next 6…

> spending 50%> of the time using it watching content that's natively 16:9 I don't understand what the issue is - the screen is vertically…

No, you'd just buy a new Yokohama Geolandar A/T 255/65 R17 for $357…

Every credit application will ask you for this - it's basically the most important factor in the approval.

@DrScavenger have you run the numbers yet ?

> a large area of close to flat roof. A large area of roof is exactly what you need for a Solar install - it doesn't matter that it's flat.