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    Machpants
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    @tim The HP Spectre 14 x360 is bloody awesome, esp if yu have the cash for the OLED screen. The Dell XPS series laptops are all good too, often some great deals on almost/last gen laptops.

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    Fuck me I didn;t realise how shit the ISP offerings are on the other side of the ditch. Third world shit!

    Apr 11, 2021  /  Networking

    Telstra throws down in the superfast NBN price wars, offers 250Mbps for the price of 50Mbps

    Telstra throws down in the superfast NBN price wars, offers 250Mbps for the price of 50Mbps

    The telcos are at it again.

    Compare 950 ish (max 1000) for 85 NZ, no contract

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    @voodoo said in Gaming/VR:

    I bought one of these a couple of years back for the basement

    https://mygamesroom.com.au/product/shop/arcade-machines/upright-arcade-machines/ultra-edition-platinum/

    Pretty fun, man the graphics are funny on some of the old games. Twin Cobra and Double Dragon still hold up pretty well though!

    Screenshot_20210330-195751_Chrome.jpg

    These are the sort of games youse guys are talking about right?

    I decide to put retropie onto one of my raspberry pi's but in the long run I want to make a fullsize arcade machine. I'm hoarding a couple of good CRTs for that.

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    @antipodean said in Gaming/VR:

    @voodoo said in Gaming/VR:

    I bought one of these a couple of years back for the basement

    https://mygamesroom.com.au/product/shop/arcade-machines/upright-arcade-machines/ultra-edition-platinum/

    Pretty fun, man the graphics are funny on some of the old games. Twin Cobra and Double Dragon still hold up pretty well though!

    Screenshot_20210330-195751_Chrome.jpg

    These are the sort of games youse guys are talking about right?

    I decide to put retropie onto one of my raspberry pi's but in the long run I want to make a fullsize arcade machine. I'm hoarding a couple of good CRTs for that.

    It funny to open the thing up and see how little computer-stuff is in there - it is literally a black box the size of a laptop.

    Bloody kids have no idea how lucky they are to get free credits, or how hard we had to work to make 20c last back in the days!

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    @mn5 said in Gaming/VR:

    @tim said in Gaming/VR:

    I recently had to replace my Intel Core i7-8000 series based HP Elitebook 840 G5. I settled on an Asus Zenbook 14 with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U chipset. It's noticeably fast, quieter, and cooler than the HP. Though the keyboard etc aren't as good. I'd also like a 3:2 or 16:10 display rather than a 16:9 aspect ratio panel. I only play 4X strategy games like Civilization VI and Stellaris (Paradox engine like EU etc), but it handles them very well. Better than the discrete AMD RX540 (2GB GDDR5) GPU in my old laptop.

    I came here to talk spacies, can someone translate this into English please ?

    You can buy a HP laptop but ASUS offer better specs for lower price.
    Make sure you get the latest graphic card (not built in ) eg AMD or NVIDIA or.. with its own memory for the latest games, the higher the number the better.
    And Tim is picky about the shape of his screen//monitor (more precisely, the aspect ratio)... If you watch videos or play games or write long documents this can be quite important.

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    @machpants said in Gaming/VR:

    Fuck me I didn;t realise how shit the ISP offerings are on the other side of the ditch. Third world shit!

    Apr 11, 2021  /  Networking

    Telstra throws down in the superfast NBN price wars, offers 250Mbps for the price of 50Mbps

    Telstra throws down in the superfast NBN price wars, offers 250Mbps for the price of 50Mbps

    The telcos are at it again.

    Compare 950 ish (max 1000) for 85 NZ, no contract

    oh you mean the NBN?

    Technicians reveal the real problem with NBN

    Technicians reveal the real problem with NBN

    Is your NBN internet or landline not working very well?

    I ran into some people on that who were looking forward to retirement rather than stay in the job..

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    Machpants
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    Go and grab it, awesome game

    Jun 10, 2021  /  Gaming

    Remedy’s magnificent Control is free on the Epic Games store, and you don’t want to miss it

    Remedy’s magnificent Control is free on the Epic Games store, and you don’t want to miss it

    The Epic Games Store is giving away Control for free, and you won't want to miss out. This game is fantastic on every level.

    Also, cannot fucking wait. I hope knifing is back to it’s best, as BC2/BF3/BF4! 🔪

    😜

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    I get my money’s worth out of Beef!

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    New portable 7" pc gaming system from Valve:

    Steam Deck

    Steam Deck

    Available now.

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    @tim

    It's kind of ugly but the specs are great considering it doesn't have to push a high resolution. I'll probably get one

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    @duluth The LPDDR5 is a big plus for bandwidth.

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    I'd get the second model with NVMe disk, too

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    @tim that's a pretty cool idea. Could be tempted

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    The LPDDR5 memory is quad channel (128 bit).

    https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/onmj52/steam_deck_to_feature_quad_channel_lpddr5_5500mts/

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    Although not for user replacement, the HDD is replaceable, so maybe I will buy the cheaper model and upgrade it

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    Righto nerds, I just grabbed an HP Omen on discount ($600 markdown) and once I finish setting it up I'm keen.

    Last game I really snagged was Witcher III and a bit of COD. My previous laptop was 6 years old so it was doing ok.

    What's good?

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    @nta Do you like 4X games?

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    @tim said in Gaming/VR:

    @nta Do you like 4X games?

    Civ 6 is mostly what I've been doing on the current lappy.

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