What companies actually make decent mid-range laptops these days?
Zagorath
joined 6 months ago
I thought we were past the days of waiting multiple weeks for internet after moving in.
In still remember in November 2019 when my apartment finally got NBN installed, and I had to wait until late January 2020 to actually get it all connected.
That was very convenient timing.
I also bought a new bike as a Christmas present to myself in December 2019. COVID couldn't have happened at a more perfect time for me.
My parents recently moved back into their house after moving back to Australia for the first time since before NBN existed. The place was rented out and at some point got NBN (HFC) installed.
There was no NTD (the black NBN connection box) inside the house, so we assumed the previous tenants had taken it even though they're not supposed to. Easy mistake to make. After ordering a new NTD and it not working, they had to go through the whole Christmas period without Internet waiting for an NBN officer to come out and fix it up. It was only yesterday when he finally came that they discovered...there is no cable from the kerbside pit to the NBN utility box on the side of the house.
A utility box with NBN branding exists, and a cable is run from it to a coaxial port inside the house, but apparently there's no cable from the utility box to the kerbside pit.
So presumably NBN was installed at some point, but somebody has ripped out the cable‽ Could anyone speculate as to what happened here?
I suspect they probably already are cheaper over the lifetime of the product. Of course there's also a lot of value in the upfront cost coming closer, but there are other problems at play.
First and foremost: the culture wars. The right-wing loves to make a big fuss at how poor and inadequate anything that might be better for the environment is. And EVs have been a huge target of this.
There's also range anxiety. Australia doesn't have the best fast-charger network for those rare long-distance trips, and far too many people make their purchase based on what they might need for a trip they take less than once per year.
And then there's dealers. There have been many reports of dealers discouraging people from getting EVs. Probably because they make a lot of their money on aftermarket servicing, which EVs need a lot less of than ICE cars. So it's in their best interest to avoid EVs.
How is their site (and product) as an option for your non-techy mum? Also does shipping end up being exorbitant if you're not in the same country they're based in?