Interesting! We always complain that we get the "Australia Tax"* as compared to say the US our prices are (not always) relatively high. Market size I guess is one of the main drivers for price. Those prices I posted include our 10% GST.
It seems we are not so bad off afterall!
Tony.
*Because we are isolated from the rest of the world it has traditionally not been practical to buy elsewhere, so vendors were able to charge a premium price, but online buying I think has been changing that.
It seems we are not so bad off afterall!
Tony.
*Because we are isolated from the rest of the world it has traditionally not been practical to buy elsewhere, so vendors were able to charge a premium price, but online buying I think has been changing that.
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How much VAT has to be balanced against income taxs and what services all the taxes are providing. I’d rather pay more VAT (here 5% national + 7% provincial). And i wouldn’t want to give up my medical services or nice roads.
dave
dave
Yes lots of variable when it comes to comparing taxes. If you just take the tax at face value though then the price difference only comes to about 5%.
Oh and I was mistaken this laptop has four cores, not eight, 8 logical cores, I guess hyperthreading.... It's a hp zbook studio G3 and seems ok so far 🙂 Definitely a MUCH better screen that my old levovo.
Tony.
Oh and I was mistaken this laptop has four cores, not eight, 8 logical cores, I guess hyperthreading.... It's a hp zbook studio G3 and seems ok so far 🙂 Definitely a MUCH better screen that my old levovo.
Tony.
Started moving data to my new 10TB drives.
The old drives hit a transfer rate of about 85MB/s steadily, with large files it goes to 129MB/s for a bit, and on densily packed small files it goes down rather low, blame it on the antivirus software working hard.
Wintermute, I did purchase a Pro license for win10 for 14 USD from an online shop a little while ago, seeing as the 14$ license was paid using Paypal, I thought the risk was worth it. Last time I bought a license from a vendor here it was about the same price you got. The expensive, original Microsoft labeled thumb drive that I got stopped working after a year when I really needed it. Had to download and build a new install drive.
The old drives hit a transfer rate of about 85MB/s steadily, with large files it goes to 129MB/s for a bit, and on densily packed small files it goes down rather low, blame it on the antivirus software working hard.
Wintermute, I did purchase a Pro license for win10 for 14 USD from an online shop a little while ago, seeing as the 14$ license was paid using Paypal, I thought the risk was worth it. Last time I bought a license from a vendor here it was about the same price you got. The expensive, original Microsoft labeled thumb drive that I got stopped working after a year when I really needed it. Had to download and build a new install drive.
They are pretty good speeds for a spinning drive KaffiMann. Small files always kill the performance! The online price I found was $60 but they had both home and pro at the same price which was a bit sus. It was when I saw them advertising an office 365 perpetual licence (it is an annual subscription) for $60 that I decided to give them a miss!
Tony.
Tony.
As long as you do not need to connect to the internet you can use WINDOWS for a music computer without paying anything.
I have a machine I use for REW using Windows 8 and other than the occasional prompt to register it works just fine. Never loses any information.
I would think one would not want a music computer to connect to the internet but I am old fashioned.
I have a machine I use for REW using Windows 8 and other than the occasional prompt to register it works just fine. Never loses any information.
I would think one would not want a music computer to connect to the internet but I am old fashioned.
Just got a 1 & a 2TB dri e fir $30 CAD. And 2 free 2 GB ramsticks to double the RAM in a buddies iMac.
dave
dave
Yeah I guess, but I am looking forward to trying the transfer rate when I'm starting to sync my two 10TB drives. Hoping to get closer to 200MB/s steady.
As a side note my Samsung 860 goes between 330-430MB/s, the brand new 1TB nvme drive goes steady at over 1000MB/s, if and when I can feed it, mostly happens if I test with a ram drive...
Against my wishes not to buy an hdd ever again , a couple of months ago I got one 4tb Wd black, but this is it, no more , SSD only! They got very cheap. I remember 10+ years ago I got my first Intel x25 40gb ssd for 200$. Since then I had 12-15 more ssd (intel, plextor, crucial , Samsung and....hp 920 series 1tb), but the biggest wow factor was the first one, the little 40gb intel.
I like the boot up speed and ability to copy loads of data fast with my SSD drives.
My first 250GB SSD drive I now use as a backup and the new 480GB SSD drive as my main drive. I do a lot of PC software work so they make a big difference to speed.
My first 250GB SSD drive I now use as a backup and the new 480GB SSD drive as my main drive. I do a lot of PC software work so they make a big difference to speed.
I got a really bad track record on SSD's. They are not suitable for reliable long term storage.
Have had several SSD's lose data through format sector faults after long term intensive use, gone on a vacation for 3 weeks, come back happy and restored, fire up the system and...
It get's old after 1 time, after 2 times with 2 different drives/systems, well. Let's just call it "trust issues".
Luckily I did not lose everything, because of previous incidents I really like to have redundancy, but losing a little can be more than enough. At least when you've experienced losing everything before.
Have had several SSD's lose data through format sector faults after long term intensive use, gone on a vacation for 3 weeks, come back happy and restored, fire up the system and...
It get's old after 1 time, after 2 times with 2 different drives/systems, well. Let's just call it "trust issues".
Luckily I did not lose everything, because of previous incidents I really like to have redundancy, but losing a little can be more than enough. At least when you've experienced losing everything before.
I was lucky so far , the only buggy ssd I know were the ones based on SandForce SF-2281 chipsets(Ex: intel 520 ssd, OCZ Vertex 3, OWC ME Pro 6G etc.), if you bought one of those then probably you had problems with them.
Started syncronizing folder structures between the two 10TB drives, so far the transfer rate seems to vary within 170MB/s to 230MB/s, stays between 190-220MB/s for the most part.
Pretty good!
Pretty good!
My first one was a 60GB Intel. A 1TB now lives where it was, so I got a SATA to USB adapter and use the little Intel for a flash drive, a fast one at that.
My first hard drive was a Seagate ST225. Weighs a ton, ran hot and slow, and provided a whopping 20 MB of storage for about USD $300.
My first hdd was a quantum 20gb ide , and I had k6-2 266mhz, soltek motherboard, floppy disk , I forgot how much ram
....good times, long time gone!
....good times, long time gone!
My first was a 15 megabyte I got from Xerox used on a IBM AT by seagate. It also had 2 360 K double sided floppies, half height. I also worked on a RCA Spectra 70 / 55 64 bit at MacAuto with 512K of ram. It had a multi platter disk drive from IBM that it booted from with 2 megabytes of storage. 1967ish.
I vaguely remember touring an RCA computer manufacturing (or maybe systems integration) facility in Florida in the late 60's. It was somewhere on the east coast south of Cape Canaveral, Riviera Beach maybe.
My first "computer" (1975) was a SWTPC (Tiger Amps) 6800 system with 2 K of static RAM and a tape drive. At its largest it ram an overclocked 6809 chip, filled a whole bench, used an old reel to reel tape deck for mas storage, and dimmed the room lights when turned on. By the late 80's a mid range 68HC11 chip with a RAM, ROM, and monitor EPROM, on a small board would kick it's butt, so I gave it away. Still have the DIY 68HC11 boards I built though.
