Black Friday deals?
Discussion
the-norseman said:
a £500 20 year old Nissan Micra will get you from A to B so whats the point in buying a £50k car for a daily?
Well, indeed. Transport is transport and you can't go faster than 70 mph anyway.My Black Friday deal was it taking 20 minutes to get into the local
supermarket car park and 30 minutes to get out.
I think all the sheep were buying assorted heaven-knows-what.
I will be avoiding Black Friday shopping in future.
LuS1fer said:
After much agonising over a gaming laptop for my son, I bought a £799 Asus TUF 15 with Ryzen 7 processor, 16Gb RaM, 1 Tb storage and RTX4060 graphics. Other "offers" had less storage or RAM
Overkill for his use but should last. That was 20% off and a Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse was slashed to 26 quid with 80% off.
(Both Amazon)
Is 16gb enough ram? It seems fairly low these days although I'm guessing the graphics card takes a lot of strain with the memory side? Overkill for his use but should last. That was 20% off and a Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse was slashed to 26 quid with 80% off.
(Both Amazon)
HantsRat said:
Lenovo M10 tablet > https://amzn.to/3ZrRSNK
46% off at £98. Great little devices, I've got a couple of these mounted as Home Assistant dashboards in the hallway.
Somewhat off topic, how did you mount them and how do you power them? 46% off at £98. Great little devices, I've got a couple of these mounted as Home Assistant dashboards in the hallway.
redrabbit29 said:
Is 16gb enough ram? It seems fairly low these days although I'm guessing the graphics card takes a lot of strain with the memory side?
It's very difficult to find anyone who provides 32 GB without going into daft prices. Though the US seems to feature 32Gb in laptops, the UK norm seems to be 16.romft123 said:
wanted a newer/bigger smart tv. Prices havent changed at all for the LG's I am wanting...bugger.
You’re judging people spending hundreds for a phone whilst hunting for a bigger newer tv that will be imperceptibly better to watch?! If you want it go for it and I hope you find a deal, but judging others for what they decide to buy is odd.
romft123 said:
wanted a newer/bigger smart tv. Prices havent changed at all for the LG's I am wanting...bugger.
To be fair TVs are pretty cheap anyway. The product cycles and tech advances are so fast that that tends to determine the discount timing rather than events like BF. FWIW I've got a 7yr old LG Oled in the lounge and it still does a stiwrling job. Wouldn't feel motivated to change it for a new one yet. The 43" Samsung in the kitchen is a couple of years old, cost about a 10th of the price of the LG and it's no better.
Forester1965 said:
To be fair TVs are pretty cheap anyway. The product cycles and tech advances are so fast that that tends to determine the discount timing rather than events like BF.
FWIW I've got a 7yr old LG Oled in the lounge and it still does a stiwrling job. Wouldn't feel motivated to change it for a new one yet. The 43" Samsung in the kitchen is a couple of years old, cost about a 10th of the price of the LG and it's no better.
That has always amused me - for instance for both TVs and phones I tend to buy Sony, and a quick Google suggests I can get a 65 inch 4k panel for around half the RRP of a new phone, which is 6.5 inch and no longer 4k. Both also run Android (ish).FWIW I've got a 7yr old LG Oled in the lounge and it still does a stiwrling job. Wouldn't feel motivated to change it for a new one yet. The 43" Samsung in the kitchen is a couple of years old, cost about a 10th of the price of the LG and it's no better.
I get there's a lot more to it than that, but TVs are ridiculously cheap for what they are imo.
bodhi said:
I get there's a lot more to it than that, but TVs are ridiculously cheap for what they are imo.
.. or smartphones are quite expensive, the premium ones from the big names anyway.Then again, miniaturising all that functionality into something that fits in your pocket and has a somewhat decent battery life is pretty tricky.
Even though you can get big screen 4k sets for buttons these days, the high quality displays are still pretty expensive. I took the plunge into OLED last Black Friday with a 42" set (smallest size available) and it cost me £900 .. But I was happy that the OLED prices had come down to that having previously been out of my price range.
bodhi said:
That has always amused me - for instance for both TVs and phones I tend to buy Sony, and a quick Google suggests I can get a 65 inch 4k panel for around half the RRP of a new phone, which is 6.5 inch and no longer 4k. Both also run Android (ish).
I get there's a lot more to it than that, but TVs are ridiculously cheap for what they are imo.
I agree TVs are insanely cheap by the standards I grew up with. I wonder how much of the price of a phone goes into the seemingly endlessly more complex camera arrangements?I get there's a lot more to it than that, but TVs are ridiculously cheap for what they are imo.
LuS1fer said:
redrabbit29 said:
Is 16gb enough ram? It seems fairly low these days although I'm guessing the graphics card takes a lot of strain with the memory side?
It's very difficult to find anyone who provides 32 GB without going into daft prices. Though the US seems to feature 32Gb in laptops, the UK norm seems to be 16.16 is sufficient for light gaming but RAM is pretty cheap.
xeny said:
I agree TVs are insanely cheap by the standards I grew up with. I wonder how much of the price of a phone goes into the seemingly endlessly more complex camera arrangements?
I agree, they are crazy cheap, i remember buying a mid range plasma 15 odd years ago, it was thousands not hundreds., i got a new one a month or so ago as the old one died, just looked, its gone up for black friday lolLuS1fer said:
Yes, it can be upgraded to 32 max. It comes with 2 x 8Gb.
It may be worth checking any user forums if you later want to do a RAM upgrade. I've sometimes encountered machines where the quoted RAM limit was set by what size DIMMs were easily available at launch, not the maximum the CPU/BIOS could actually support.romft123 said:
People spending hundreds for a mobile phone or a chip pan................nuts.
You can't be serious.Do you genuinely think "hundreds" for a phone is unreasonable?
Modern smartphones, are incredibly powerful bits of kit.
Consider two things. Firstly, take into consideration that most people will be using the device multiple times per day, every day, for at least 3 years.
Now consider what even a "budget" smartphone is capable of.
On a cost-per use basis, smartphones, are one of the biggest bargains out there - high end "flagships" included, imo.
Edited by TheJimi on Saturday 30th November 21:19
Forester1965 said:
People (me included) spend hundreds of pounds on a smartphone to use it for browsing and talking to people. Could do it with a £50 but of kit if we wanted. It's the biggest rip off in the world.
very true, my phone cost not much more than £100 new, it does most of what an all singing ipone will, not all but most, people get caught in the contract cycle of new every few years, when in reality they havnt progressed much in years, but if thats what you want to spend your money on, then carry on, Same way people buy a 200k car when a 10k one would probably do the job fine. Each to their own.A £100 quid phone will do what the latest iPhone will do?
That's like saying a £5k hot hatch will do what a 911 Turbo will do (other comparisons are available)
Yes, it'll do most of the same things, but it'll do them in a considerably lesser way than the iPhone (or equivalent flagship android) will.
User experience and performance is important to me, particularly with a device that I'm using quite literally, all the time, and so I'm willing to pay a premium for that.
That's like saying a £5k hot hatch will do what a 911 Turbo will do (other comparisons are available)
Yes, it'll do most of the same things, but it'll do them in a considerably lesser way than the iPhone (or equivalent flagship android) will.
User experience and performance is important to me, particularly with a device that I'm using quite literally, all the time, and so I'm willing to pay a premium for that.
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