jcon » user profile

Yes. Also makes a great adjustable frame for a WFH desk.

Last time these were on sale I was going to pull the trigger but found several pretty dire reviews regarding the misalignment between the…

YSK: NAPLAN is there to assess the teachers and the school, not the students. If the school can't get their act together well enough to…

These will perform just fine for most things most people will need to do on a laptop.

Your best bet is to buy one of those 8th gen i5 refurb Toshiba models, use it until it's unbearably left behind - call it maybe 5 years -…

Check out UMart for these, they'll cost you about ten bucks.

What are you planning to do on a thousand dollar laptop where you need more than 16 GB RAM?

It's not going to run Crysis but 8th gen i5 with 8GB RAM is absolutely fine for everything that most people do. Searching the internet and…

It depends. If the GPU has a plug for a PSU to connect to it, then probably not. If it gets all the power it needs from the PCIe slot (i.e.…

That's not the 'ultimate' ghetto rig, it's the 'best GPU fifty bucks can buy' ghetto rig, and I ran the same one for a couple of years…

What you've got there is the ultimate ozbargain ghetto gaming rig. That'll keep on playing Rocket League and Fortnite for a few more years,…

Looks like the mower and chainsaw is also on sale. https://www.totaltools.com.au/brands/skil?brushless_brushed=3452

I need to know more about giant bags of chocolate churro turtle chips.

The licence is attached to the motherboard, not the disk.

Nice find. Thanks for putting that up for comparison.

This deal should be your benchmark. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/821529 Good brand - Dell, HP or Lenovo - business grade model, 16 GB…

2018 is five years ago. $420 is far too much to pay for a laptop that's already been used for five years.

Don't buy the i7-5600. It's about eight years old now, it's not worth paying for.

I've put one kid through high school buying refurbs, selling them on marketplace after 2 years and repeat. Total cost out of pocket is…

Six hours is low, but the 15" form factor should make it a 'no go'. It's too cumbersome to lug around all day. I'd steer clear of Acer,…

This will be a just-good-enough laptop for general office or study work, but the price is a bit much - this should be at the $250 mark…

How is this a weak CPU?

These are enterprise-grade, four year old, good quality, reliable PC's. The other deal were off-brand, brand new, low powered, dubious…

Nah, not at all, because these are all refurbs. All other things being more or less equal, the PC's in this deal have a year less wear and…

It's not made for playing games, but as a general home/office type device, yep, it'll serve you well.

I always assume that the battery will need to be replaced during the 4 year lifespan I plan to get out of the laptop because batteries…

Yep, I'm sure. Kids drop things. Glass shatters. Touch screens are glass.

It's perfect for that, only consideration is that touch screens are more fragile than non-touch and they cost a lot to replace - if your…

Not just a physical size problem, the RX580 power draw is pretty high.You'd need to find a GPU which runs on PCIe power only, as a starting…

I used a low profile GTX 1050 to make a ghetto gaming PC out of one of these a while back, it's not as easy as the old 9020 cases were. The…