Hardware Bargains - Open Thine Wallet

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Volksieboi said:
Just on chromebooks

Universe direct has 2 models of the HP chromebook 11 for sale.

Refurbs. But they offer a 12 month. They confirmed via email that the G5 unit is touch screen.

Just FYI

I might go for the G5 @R3400
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That's ex vat
 
johnjm said:
Xiaomi mitruewireless earbuds at R599 at takealot. Excellent price.
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Can you change the volume and change tracks via the earbuds, I read some reviews which say you can't which kind of nullifies the advantage of having wireless headphones. Seems weird they would do that so I'm hoping a firmware upgrade has changed that?
 
Is Makro's online stock indicator accurate? Or is there a possibility a store would have stock. There's no way to contact the stores themselves.
 
airborne said:
Can you change the volume and change tracks via the earbuds, I read some reviews which say you can't which kind of nullifies the advantage of having wireless headphones. Seems weird they would do that so I'm hoping a firmware upgrade has changed that?
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You can't, similar to airpods. You can ask Siri or Google assistant.
 
derp90 said:
Is Makro's online stock indicator accurate? Or is there a possibility a store would have stock. There's no way to contact the stores themselves.
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Literally happened on Monday to me. Showed out of stock at my local branch and found it on the floor in bulk when I went to the store. Prob system lag but yeah I wouldn't always trust it.

My item was a popular item nor something on sale so in the case of the SSD I wouldn't know.
 
derp90 said:
Is Makro's online stock indicator accurate? Or is there a possibility a store would have stock. There's no way to contact the stores themselves.
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There is away to contact the stores, you pick up the phone. But unfortunately even going in I had to find the stock myself as they are like we normally have SSDS here, and in the SANDISK cabinet with flash drives there sat 2 SSDs.
 
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Lupus said:
There is away to contact the stores, you pick up the phone. But unfortunately even going in I had to find the stock myself as they are like we normally have SSDS here, and in the SANDISK cabinet with flash drives there sat 2 SSDs.
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You can only call customer care and they just look at the online stock indicator. I tried numbers I found for stores but none answer.
 
Yeah, eventually went to a store to check. They had no stock and phoned another branch, also just sold the last three.

I didn’t realise how good a deal this was until it was too late.

I bet we’ll see a bunch of these drives popping up for sale soon from people looking to make a profit.
 
derp90 said:
Yeah, eventually went to a store to check. They had no stock and phoned another branch, also just sold the last three.

I didn’t realise how good a deal this was until it was too late.

I bet we’ll see a bunch of these drives popping up for sale soon from people looking to make a profit.
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Which branches did you check?

I'm tempted to get one even though I still have ~200GB free on my 500GB :laugh:.
 
chickenbeef said:
Which branches did you check?

I'm tempted to get one even though I still have ~200GB free on my 500GB :laugh:.
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Just download warzone then you extra space is gone. The 1TB deal is great but looking for a cheap 500GB option
 
Maybe I will just go for a normal 2TB HDD, will be cheaper anyway and the only benefit is shorter loading :D
 
johnjm said:
You can't, similar to airpods. You can ask Siri or Google assistant.
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Lol, the beauty of wired headphones, they have all that new fangled tech like play/pause, volume, skip forward and backward..

The Samsung buds as far as I know have media controls9
 
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airborne said:
Lol, the beauty of wired headphones, new fangled tech like play/pause, volume, skip forward and backward..

The Samsung buds as far as I know so have media controls9
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Everyone has different priorities, I prefer sound quality and battery life over media controls. Especially considering I use them a lot for work meetings now.

I have a set of the big daddy Sony ANCs that I use for the LDAC codec and they have media controls. But don’t find myself chopping and changing often, to each their own.
 
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