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Sunday, 25 April 2021, 2:23 pm Six months have past since Apple launched its first M1 based Macs. This week saw a slew of new Macs and an iPad Pro all using the same processor. M1 is at least a generation ahead of anything Intel can offer. It is, in effect, an entire system on a chip. There’s no indication the chipmaker will close the gap any time soon. Intel is in trouble. If you want the best battery performance and the most powerful everyday processor it’s Apple all the way. M1 across the Apple range Your M1 choices run from the NZ$1200 Mac Mini through the iMac range

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 1:43 pm If you think you need a 5G handset, the $400 Redmi Note 9T from Xiaomi is the cheapest option. Xiaomi gives you a lot of phone for $400. You could pay double and end up with something that does nothing more than the Redmi Note 9T. One paper the phone isn’t promising. It doesn’t look great, it doesn’t feel great and it’s not exciting. The camera is not special. There’s nothing spectacular to see here. No-one would aspire to own a Redmi Note. Yet there’s nothing wrong either. The phone is far better than a simple

Second, average download speeds for fixed wireless networks were down 25 percent. Third, there’s a clear problem with retail telecommunications revenue. This has implications for investment in new networks and technology upgrades. We’ll look more closely at all three points later. Before that, here are a few highlights from the report. More data, faster data Broadband use jumped ahead in the year to June 2020. The monitoring report notes the average New Zealand broadband user chewed through 284GB every month. That’s up 37 percent from the 207GB used monthly a year earlier. That should s...

Early in 2020 much of the world went into lockdown. Companies sent workers home to work. Schools sent students home to study. As a response, there was a surge in technology adoption. Often, people, companies and organisations tried, for the first time, technologies they had not used before. In others, rarely-used technologies moved centre stage. Video-conferencing, online shopping and streaming were among the technologies where adoption leapt forward. Cloud and collaboration surged. All became mainstream overnight. And those that were popular before lockdown reached the more reluctan...

Spotlight on Fibre Max performance Ever since the UK-based SamKnows began monitoring broadband there has been an issue with Fibre Max performance. Customers see a wide range of speeds. In cases the speed was close to half the nominal gigabit per second. At times it was even lower - see the chart. It was noticeable that performance was worse in the South Island than in the North Island. Hence the uneasiness with calling plans ‘gigabit’ fibre. In December the Commerce Commission set up a working party to investigate the problems with Fibre Max. There was more than one issue to