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It, like any computer, would be much better if it were asleep, wouldn't it?

End of the day, if it's reading at least 1024MiB/s, it'll take no more than a minute to load 60GiB of data, which is rather more than most…

Look, all it needs is to be burned with thermite and rebuilt from the ground up. Other than that, it's perfectly fine.

Yeah, 8GB RAM gets chewed up pretty quick these days, and games are starting to expect 16GB. Not to mention that 200GiB of storage (ex OS)…

In defence of the website, the app is jankier. =D

This is true for delivery orders, for whatever reason, but for pickup orders they do have the option to cancel. However, best practice…

Are you sure it wasn't really about the fact you were taking tinned fish into a confined space filled with other people? =P

From what I've heard, it isn't -- there is plenty of smoke/peat, but not much else going on.

The $34 bottle of Rivka vodka works out as $2.42 per 50ml, and no-one will punch you in the face for wasting good scotch...

Thanks, that's helpful info =) (though you have my commiserations for the negative experience =( ).

If you're not sure what you want, talk to your kids about what *they* want. Being with enthusiastic people is enjoyable, and even more so…

Will do, and thanks for the link, but there is more to the ergonomics than simple legspace. E.g. the curves on seats are always a pain, but…

I'm 189cm (6'2") and will probably go to London because I'm planning to have no particular plans and it's an extended trip, so going to the…

> or you just post the goods back to yourself. That does raise the question of how customs would be treating, say, a laptop computer sent…

What are they packing it in?

The Asus ROG Flow (X13/X16) might work for you, but may be too expensive.

Intel isn't competing with Apple, though. The only products that will have Apple chips are Apple ones, and no Apple products are going to…

Thunderbolt is an Intel-owned technology, so no computer with AMD processor will have it (and any listing which has both is incorrect).

> Ships in 7-8 weeks? They can do better... "Ships within 10**+** weeks". Which, I must say, is a top-tier non-statement. I was looking at…

I was mostly just trying to decode the broken English, but even so, your contribution certainly adds value =) .

Do you mean that SSD prices have collapsed because a Chinese company (Yangtze Memory) is now competitive with the established manufacturers…

If I buy on BD the timing probably won't line up (i.e. at least better than 10% discount), but if I end up buying later it's something I'll…

Yeah, I'm aware. It's certainly not preferred, but there are ways to handle it, and if a deal were good enough... it is the OzBargain Way…

Mentally change that to "pixel density", if you must. Or you could get into a technical debate about how resolution is completely different…

> MSY is the kind of place you go to if you know what your buying. Except you don't any more, because you order online.

> and no ~~frills~~ service Fixed that for you.

These days you've got to either be online-focused (cheap and efficient), or customer-focused (experience shopping and premium pricing).…

That would require people skills, and their dump stats are people skills and customer service. Which does raise the unanswered question of…

> just with different branding until one of them (likely MSY) is discontinued and fully dissolved. But surely they'd want to take advantage…

Looking for suggestions of laptop models to check out. I'm planning an extended trip overseas, and would like to take reasonably capable…