Well with the 12months that isn't so bad? £40 a month...enough to be annoying for most and the shine will be long off it by the end of that. Don't know your finances so can't judge.

Apple really annoy me. They charge a premium for something that has no lasting value. The Apple watches really annoy me for that reason.#

You could get a nice watch for £500 and it would last a very long time.

Heh. Dark and quiet. Alone. Fuck it. Click.

iPhone 13 Mini arrives tomorrow, despite my best efforts to cancel it.  I'm assuming no interest from anyone, but thought I'd give it one last heads-up before I issue the return process for a refund.

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Hello mate.

It is the smallest version.  I got it for £566 (£629 from Very, with 10% cashback), so would be a small loss, but with perhaps a short-term benefit of having that money in the bank now, with 12 months 0% to pay back the credit.  Almost like a low interest, 12-month loan

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There's a Gent for you.

Sorry Kris, she passed. In the end, it's the red! I should have realised red would be a no go!

Hope you can manage to get the refund mate.

Cross-posted from the 'Free to a good home' thread.

Blue Swirl wrote:

I have a Surface Go type cover* and a Canon Ixus 145**, free to a good home. I live in Taiwan, so contributions to postage welcome, but not required if finances are tight.

*Fully working, afaik. I think the reason my Surface Go 2 doesn't work with it is because the connecter on the computer itself is broken. (One of the pins has snapped off.) It should work with the Surface Go, Go 2, and Go 3. 


**Again, fully working. Just no need for it any more. It has a third party charger, as I lost the original, and some spare batteries. (Because the seller of the charger gave me some batteries, unbidden.)

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What's the battery life like on it?

Looks like it's not too hard to replace the battery in that one.

With that kind of pretty powerful hardware it's not surprising honestly. Gaming laptops in general are more about using nearby wall power if you want to play for any length of time.

Not a problem Pseudo, no point me selling it to you for you not to be happy.

No worries Davie

BenQ W1210ST 1080p DLP projector, £300

Launched in the £900s in 2017 and cost about 800 in 2018. The lamp's rated to last 5000 hours on eco and has 214 on it, always in eco. 100" screen at 1.5m, with enough brightness for 70-90" in daylight against a white wall or screen (so long as there's not a window next to it). 16ms lag with fast mode enabled at 60Hz.

1280x800 at 120Hz is supported on PC (also 720/120), and if you enable frame-sequential 3D (only works at 120Hz), that's really a form of black-frame insertion that gives amazing motion. There is a latency cost, jumping to the high 20s according to my testing. This happens on TVs, too, with the LG CX rising from 14 to about 27ms with Motion Pro on high at 60Hz.

The other 120Hz downside is double images that look worse than blur if you feed it 60fps content. I'm mentioning it because I'm a big fan of it for anything my weak PC can run at 120fps, where fast motion's clearer at 720/120 3D than regular 4K/60 (and unlike 60Hz BFI, there's no flicker). Very much the opposite for static and slow-moving games, of course, where 4K pulls way ahead.

Its speakers are surprisingly okay, and I never felt the need to use externals. Besides being a PJ with obvious positional probs, the negatives for me are that it's quite loud (like a last-gen console for ballpark) and doesn't support 1080/120 for consoles. So I've bought a newer one that does, at the same time as being quieter and a bit smaller (which really does have a crappy speaker!).

There's a nice carry bag with it. HDMI 1.4b, so no HDR. A family badger might fancy it for local multiplayer.

Nice one. I’ve no idea what they go for… how much do they/you want?