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OT: has the AI-driven price inflation already hit spinning hard disks? If not then surely, some PC builders will go back to mixed hardware.…

If YouTube reviews are to be believed then battery life is fairly poor with these phones. Not unexpectedly so considering the form factor.…

Don’t lose your head over this offer. 😬

I can understand why an off-road 4WD like the Shark is a PHEV. For a family SUV like the Sealion, I would go fully electric. Plug-ins are…

The BZ4X did not review well. It has slow DC charging and its range is not competitive. It has to be priced much lower to be competitive.

For reference, the cars that Tesla originally imported into Australia were made in their US factories and had horrible quality issues.…

Also lack of competition and the fact that our government is reluctant to crack down on price gouging. Admittedly, the Chinese aren’t the…

True, but even chargeback up from say 20% to 80% is taking too long on a regular power socket.

Frankly, I do not necessarily believe their assertion to sell at a loss in China. Perhaps that is what they tell us in order to justify the…

Maybe so. But sometimes you go longer distances that deplete your battery. You still want the car to be topped up fully when you head out…

One nitpick is that their 3-phase AC charging tops out at 11 kW. Every modern EV should give us the full 22 kW. Some of BYD’s promotional…

They make the BYD Shark. It’s a PHEV with an ~80km electric range. The petrol engine that acts as range extender is not fantastic, but it…

In China, the price for a BYD Atto 3 starts at less than the equivalent of AUD26,000. Here, they charge you AUD40,000 and up for the…

$1800 for a handheld PC that is an economic nightmare courtesy of running Windows? Worst of all, games do not actually run that much better…

Hyundai is strangely inconsistent with their design. This one is exceptionally ugly and does not look anything like the well-proportioned…

It’s a subscription. They will start charging you as soon as you drop out of this programme. Or you lose access to your documents. Just…

If you want a petrol car I guess. But seriously, then you should still not opt for a Volkswagen.

Not really no. BMW just tried pushing a digital subscription on me for maps updates, real-time traffic information and being able to use…

All airlines are like this. We have had Singapore Air delay us for 40 hours. And we had business class tickets.

They price it in comparison to the competition here in Australia. As more Chinese EV brands enter the market here, I am hoping for prices…

MG was dead before it was resurrected. The Volvo brand is more valuable and the Volvo design is distinct. The one brand that I cannot make…

This may not be the prettiest car on the planet, but neither is the Tesla Model Y. Importantly, it is cheaper.

One of those devices that Apple sells as price anchor. A non-upgradable 256GB SSD will render this laptop unusable for anything but the…

I don’t watch TV, but I can spot a Sieg Heil salute when I see one. So yes, he is a bad person.

I wonder if they shouldn’t start negotiating with Eutelsat/OneWeb instead. At least, they have satellites in orbit and are operational.

They have optimised the antenna again. Now comes in a lovely swastika design.

I have decided to avoid American products as best as I can for the next four years.

Nintendo is an awful company. Like how they litigated against open source emulators of the Switch. They even went after the people who…

It will probably be sold out for the first few weeks, mostly due to scalpers buying up supply. But I doubt that we will see a protracted…

They have not published the SoC specs. But rumour has it that it will be using an Ampere-generation (ie. outdated) GPU using an 8nm (ie.…