I’ve been looking at new-build apartments here in Sydney recently and shocked to find how much space is taken up inside a wardrobe or storage cupboard with NBN equipment.
I figured with brand new apartments all of this equipment could be centrally located in the basement with just a simple fibre cable into each apartment but apparently not.
no, i still use the NBN-provided modem, but I have a separate netgear router over vodafone’s
If it is FTTP, that would be because the NTD supports up to 4 separate FTTP connections, which makes sense to keep in the apartment.
The battery is connected directly to the NTD.
Yeah that’s my point, the iiNet modem isn’t the problem, it’s the seperate NTD.
Felt this would go in the Tech Talk
Here’s a question:
Which of the two would you prefer?
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Custom made all the way!
(As is mine 
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Plus it is probably more than half the cost of a fully maxed out iMac Pro
did you go for Ryzen?
Agree, and Windows is a more flexible beast, with a better range of software available.
Macs are a walled garden just like the iPhone and iPad, and a bit overpriced as well.
I like the customisation of a custom made Windows PC. But buggy Windows constantly frustrates me!
My current build was done at the start of 2018, before Ryzen really caught up to Intel.
Specs:
i7 8700K (AIO water cooler)
64gb Ram
1tb NVME SSD
GTX 1080
3tb secondary storage (2x3TB HHD in RAID1)
When the time comes to upgrade, I will probably jump on the Ryzen bandwagon, but I’m hoping to have this bad boy for another few years at least.
Noice!
Sounds like a real mean beast!
My PC also has a Ryzen 7 2700 processor … goes very nicely.
nice specs! here’s what i got in my PC
Ryzen 5 3600
16 GB RAM
Radeon RX580
512GB NVME
1TB SATA SSD
(plus 8TB storage in my NAS)
But, oh, how I wish there was better integration between iOS devices and Windows
This might be repetitive - but some of you (ahem @MichaelPower @Radiohead have got me curious)
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Bloody oath. I hate it with a passion.
I’m a programmer for my job, and I cannot stand it how I must use a Mac Mini to handle IOS development because their ecosystem is so locked down. It’s so frustrating.
Haha sure is. Its main my development machine, and up until recently was also for Plex and any other server software. I have since offloaded that stuff to my old PC which handles it flawlessly.
Certainly not shabby! Must fly too. NVME is so good.
I actually can’t vote… I have always been an Intel fanboy, but AMD has outdone Intel finally and now Intel are clearly struggling to keep up with AMDs CPUs.
I only really say AMD because they are better value, unless you are a heavy gamer or do lots of video editing, a top of range Intel i7 processor isn’t worth it.
I mean… wait until Ryzen 4000 desktop CPU’s come out, then i think AMD will take the cake in those aspects
it’s crazy, AMD’s new Ryzen3 3300X has the same performance as an i7 from 2017
I am quite obsessed with the Intel ecosystem, although I wish Intel had the same value as AMD 
I am using these specs on a wooden HP Envy laptop
Intel i7 10510U
8GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM
Intel UHD Graphics
512GB PCle NVMe M2 SSD
I saw a video LinusTechTips did on this CPU and my jaw dropped.
Don’t watch much of him