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It's a public school. As for the why, my guess is that it makes for a much more streamlined support model for when things go wrong, and…

Yes, in general these X1s are sturdy. I've found that with the A-tier laptop brands (Lenovo, HP, Dell, Toshiba), their business-line…

Seller does have this one: https://www.australiancomputertraders.com.au/dell-optiplex-7060-tower-intel-i5-8500-3.0ghz-16gb~343079 If you do…

I've always found them pretty "meh" from a value for money perspective. Curious to know how you use them that make them so effective for…

My daughter plays Roblox and Minecraft on a PC with a 15 year old CPU, 4GB DDR2, and a 12 year old GPU, and it works fine at 1080p... no…

interesting use case :-) Just remembered, it's not a Q9550 (that sits in an old Optiplex I used for office work until about 1½ years ago)…

This system is perfectly fine for home/office work and casual gaming. As also per the previous comment, if no gaming then any system with a…

rather off-topic innit? Anyway, my daughter was struggling to play Minecraft and Roblox on an Acer SFF with a 3rd gen i5 with 16GB RAM and…

As per the aforementioned Tom's Hardware GPU hierarchy, there isn't all that much in it between the two. At 1440p Ultra, it looks like it's…

and cheaper still (has higher price but no postage) https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/386851058970

yep - I saw the $0.76 and thought "you bewdy"... then got to the payment section and all of a sudden it's close to $10, not the first time…

no worries, and yeah, that Dell with 9500T was indeed a good deal, although (also as per comments in that post) no particularly feasible…

This PC will easily meet your use cases (overkill even for the first two). As for the lack of ethernet in your study, the website only…

well, they ARE more than 40cm wide... 5mm to be precise :-D All jesting aside, probably just depth perception (or rather, deception)

your current CPU is 6C/12T, and so is that i5, so core/thread wise it's the same, but because it's 4 generations newer the raw CPU power is…

how much did you spend on aero-modeling? ;-)

8GB RAM would be doable if it could be upgraded at some point, but - to me - it's worse that it appears that it is *not* upgradeable

that's interesting... when I checked their site yesterday you could also choose 5600 (and even 5700x, from memory). Now it's gone... either…

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Note that I posted a similar comment much higher up in this comment section on the PCIEx3 vs 4 'issue' and someone had kindly tested it by…

It's AM4 so Ryzen 5 series is the top of the line here. 5500 is quite low in 5xxx hierarchy (but very good performance per dollar). Fastest…

I've seen a number of PC-sale threads on Ryzen 5500 where it was mentioned that that CPU is limited to PCIx3.0. That thus has an effect on…

Damn, I've been fooled all those years... Ah well, it was still a pretty damn good upgrade from my 1988 286 (10MHz on Turbo, yeah baby!!!),…

and if you were lucky you had a deck which allowed you to have it auto-reverse perpetually... *et voilà*, continuous music :-)

showing as AU$9.56 for me (and yes, with free shipping)... did the Ozzie dollar rise all of a sudden compared to USD? ;-)

something like this perhaps…

First 2 comments, absolutely... often have to set the ventilation to "internal" when going uphill behind an older car (most often utes)…

Are you familiar with the ozzie classic "The Castle"? If so, I rest my case... ;-)

It's interesting how - at the moment - for iPhone 11 and higher there seem to be few 'reliable' deals under $500. Bought an XR via…