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Spotify
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robot vacuum
A robot vacuum is a small device that cleans your floors by itself. You set it up, and it moves around your home to vacuum (and sometimes mop) while you do other things.
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home button
A home button is the button you press to get back to the main screen. Some phones don’t use a home button anymore and instead use swipe gestures to do the same thing.
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swipe up
“Swipe up” means moving your finger upward on the screen. Phones use this gesture to replace the old home button behavior.
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Google Pixel
Google Pixel is Google’s line of Android smartphones. The speaker mentions it to illustrate how gesture navigation is used on a real device.
Company
Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman is a retail store, and they’re using it to say they saw the item priced at $900. Store prices can be a useful reference, but they might not match what you’d pay at a car dealer.
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Mac Mini
A Mac Mini is a small Apple desktop computer. Here, the host says it’s powerful enough to run their whole podcast setup and multiple high-resolution screens.
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4K
4K is a very high-resolution screen setting. It means the picture is much sharper, and running multiple 4K screens at once takes a lot of computer power.
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webcam
A “webcam” is a camera used for video calls and streaming. The speaker recommends buying one for online teaching and notes that it should meet a minimum resolution for acceptable image quality.
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1080p
1080p is a standard high-definition video quality. They’re saying to choose a webcam that records at least at this quality so you look clear on camera.
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ports
Ports are the plug-in slots on your computer. They’re saying their laptop doesn’t have enough connection points for all the gear they use.
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Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is a faster kind of connection than regular USB. If a port says Thunderbolt, it’s usually meant for quicker transfers and sometimes extra features like video.
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USB-A
USB-A is the older USB plug shape you’ll see on lots of older devices. If your new gear only has USB-C ports, you’ll need an adapter to connect the older USB-A stuff.
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phone
They’re talking about a mobile phone that’s being paid off over time. The monthly bill includes both the phone service and the payments for the phone itself, so the price can creep up.
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Optus
Optus is a phone company. They’re asking whether Optus would charge the remaining phone payoff amount on the next bill if they cancel or switch.
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data
“Data” is the internet allowance on your phone plan. It’s measured per month, and most people don’t use all of theirs—so paying more for extra data may not help.
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boost mobile option
Boost Mobile is a phone service provider. This part is about your mobile plan cost, not anything mechanical on a car.
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factory screen protector
They mean the protective film that came with the phone. It started peeling/bubbling, and that eventually damaged the actual screen underneath.
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refurbished Fold 5
A refurbished device is a previously owned phone that has been repaired, tested, and restored to working condition—often with cosmetic or component replacements. The speaker received a refurbished Fold 5 after the original internal screen was destroyed.
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mobile plan
A mobile plan is what you pay each month to use your phone on a cellular network. It’s separate from paying off the phone itself.
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Chromebook
A Chromebook is a laptop that mostly works through the internet—like using Google apps in a browser. Since it stores a lot online, it usually doesn’t need as much built-in storage as other laptops.
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OLED screen
OLED is a type of screen that usually looks really sharp, with strong contrast and vivid colors. If you’re connecting to external monitors, the built-in screen quality matters less.
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USB-C
USB-C is the common “plug shape” you see on newer laptops and phones. Here, it’s the cable connection between the computer and the screen.
Car
ASUS CX-14
They’re talking about an ASUS Chromebook called the CX-14. The idea is that it should be fast enough for everyday work, even when you’re using multiple screens.
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Chromebox
A Chromebox is a small computer that uses Chrome OS. It’s meant to work mainly online, so you don’t need a big local setup like you would with some other computers.
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pre-roll and mid-roll ads
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in-goal area
The in-goal area is the end zone where scoring happens. If it’s shorter, players have less space to work with near the goal line, which changes how the game feels.
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halftime
Halftime is the break between the first and second halves of a game. In broadcast terms, it’s a common window for ad insertion, which the speaker contrasts with ads during live play.
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mind maps
A mind map is a diagram that helps you organize thoughts. The main idea is in the middle, and everything else branches out so you can see what matters and what to do next.
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Joseph's on the line. Good day, Joseph.
Hi, Trevor.
Mate, what can I do for you?
Actually, I've got two things.
One is an issue which actually might lead into buying
and the second one is a buying question as well.
Well, let's go. What's the first one?
The first one is this.
I have a friend who is in her 80s.
She has an iPhone SE third.
I think it is third. Yeah, the last one anyway.
It's getting a bit old and was looking at possibly
changing her to 16e or 17e, which is the closest thing to the SE, I believe.
Do you think she'll hate not having the home button?
That's the biggest change she's going to be up for.
Yeah, that's my concern.
I will say, before we get on that, I will say though,
the main thing I would do, no matter who it is in your life,
no matter how old they are and how used to that home button they are,
all you've got to teach them is to swipe up.
It's hard because when you say swipe up from the bottom of the screen,
my mum does this with her Google Pixel.
She swipes up from like a centimetre above the screen.
No, no, you've got to swipe off the screen and all the way up.
Once you teach them that as being the home button,
I think it's perfectly understandable.
And from there on, you don't need the home button.
So, mate, as long as someone like you is there to help,
I think you'll be OK.
Yeah, but the real issue is this, Trevor,
that she originally did this under a previous married name.
And she wants it back into her other name.
Sure.
And the issue is how to do that without losing the stored contacts
and all that sort of stuff in the cloud.
Right.
Well, the first thing you do is do it all before you buy a phone.
So, there's nothing to stop you changing details.
The best, and again, sit side by side, do this with her.
But you want to go to AppleID.com.
So, forget the phone, bring up a laptop or a computer,
sit at that and go to AppleID.com.
When you click on that, you can change your name.
You can change your date of birth.
Look, with a lot of things, it'll make you verify it
and update it and things.
But for example, you can change your email address.
You can change your phone number.
You can do it all in there.
And there's no issue there at all.
You can add multiple phone numbers.
You can add multiple email addresses.
It's weird.
Here's the only thing I'd say to you,
just out of a little bit of extra context
on changing email addresses.
My AppleID account is an email address
I don't use for anything else.
Now, to be clear, it forwards to me.
So, if you send an email to that account, I still get it.
But the actual email address is one that I simply don't use
anywhere else.
I might have 20 years ago.
And I think that's a good thing in some ways
because it reminds me whenever I'm logging into Apple,
it reminds me, hey, this is kind of important
because if I was to hand over to you my email address
and password for AppleID,
the things that you could do without a pretty extraordinary.
So, just be cautious about why you're changing it
because if it's only her that's ever going to see it,
apart from the shutter that it might give you
from a previous marriage or whatever,
there's no requirement to change it, is all I'm saying.
So, just do what she's comfortable with,
but do it all at AppleID.com.
And that should then be reflected on the phone.
Okay.
The only reason is that she gets real annoyed
because, you know, when she goes to send an email
or reply to somebody,
it turns out with the old email address from, you know,
and no matter how much I show her how,
you can actually change that by just, you know,
bringing it down and picking the right.
Right.
So then maybe you need to delete that old account from the phone
because it sounds like there are multiple email accounts
on the phone if you're able to drop down and choose one.
So, I would also, while you're there,
so update the AppleID.com and then go into settings
and accounts or settings and mail
and look at the accounts list and delete the accounts
that you don't want on there anymore.
Yeah.
Well, again, I'll have to check if there are still things,
you know, invoices or whatever,
whatever coming through for that email address.
Okay.
Mate, you can definitely change the name on the account
for sure.
Oh, okay.
All right.
By the way, the 16E is the best value.
17E is obviously newer and better, but you can get the 16E
now basically on special.
Let me see if they're still on.
They were discounted for a while there.
They're not super discounted.
I can see one at Harvey Norman for $900.
Looks like JB's got him.
iPhone 16E at $899.
They're not massively discounted, to be honest.
No.
But yeah, the 16E is pretty good value.
But mate, if the 17E is very, very close in price,
then to get the 17 because it's going to last longer.
Yeah.
So, just think about that.
Yeah.
Okay.
The other question is really related to me.
I'm having problems with my MacBook Pro 15-inch 2019.
It just seems to, for some reason or other,
when I try to open something like Word or Excel,
it'll just go round and round and round and round.
And when I look to see if I can force quit it,
it says not responding.
So, I'm thinking of changing it completely.
But I'm just wondering whether I should go for a Mac Mini
or the new MacBook and Neo.
Interesting, interesting question.
So, are you saying, sorry, now, what are the options?
MacBook, Neo, or are you talking about a physical computer
like the Mac Mini?
Yeah, no, they're a little, yeah, they're physical, yeah.
Because I have screens.
You've got a screen and stuff like that.
Keyboards and all that stuff.
So, the thing about your MacBook Pro is it's the last
of the Intel generation.
So, it was the last one before they started doing their
Apple Silicon, the M1 chip and all those different things, right?
So, it is obviously aging, but the great thing
about Apple devices is they're very easy to refresh.
So, if you back up the data you need, I would wipe that thing.
I would give it a new lease in life and see whether
a fresh install actually gives you a better experience.
However, if you're willing to go to a desktop,
I would argue that the MacBook Neo is not even comparable
to a Mac Mini, yeah?
You're talking 999 bucks for the M4 chip, right?
And the MacBook Neo, its chip is years before that.
It's not even an M processor, it's an iPhone chip.
So, the power and performance and speed you'll get
from a Mac Mini at 999, without even specking it up,
is excellent.
And honestly, it's probably Apple's best value product
performance for dollars.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, it is such good value at 999.
I bought a, here's how much I love the Mac Mini.
I specked one up, like, and I went spec-spec.
I think I spent $3,000 on it.
Like, I got all the cores and all the bits and all the memory.
And it runs our entire podcast studio.
So, if you've seen our video podcast, the screens,
it's running three screens at 4K.
Like, it's unbelievable what that device can do.
But even the basic 999 Mac Mini will put your existing
MacBook Pro IntelliDition to dust.
It really will.
Yeah.
The only other reason is that I do a lot of online teaching
and that, you know, so I'll need a video...
Oh, but just buy yourself a webcam.
You know, no drivers at all there.
Cheap webcam.
Just make sure you get a 1080p one.
Let's get you some webcam and you're good to go.
Yeah.
And the other thing that I thought also was with the Neo,
I don't have enough ports to...
The things that I got hanging off this MacBook Pro.
Yeah.
Look, if you're on that, look, remember the Mac Mini also
only has USB-C slash Thunderbolt ports.
So, you will need the odd converter for your USB-A stuff.
But, you know, that's the thing.
When you buy a webcam, make sure it's a USB-C one.
So, don't...
Yeah.
Anything new you get, make sure the USB-C compatible
so that you're making full use of all the ports.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
That's great.
All right, mate.
You've got some work to do.
Yeah.
Give my regards to Steve.
Steve and the rabbit to when you see him.
I will, mate.
I will.
Thanks so much.
Hello, countrymen.
Good on you, mate.
Cheers.
Okay.
Thanks.
Thanks, Trevor.
Thanks for calling.
No worries at all, mate.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter what your question is or who...
If it's for some...
You can give textable to other people through my knowledge.
I'm happy for you to do that.
We can chain the knowledge along and do it that way.
Totally fine.
Thank you for your call, Joseph.
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Stuart's on the line.
Good day, Stuart.
Hi, Trevor.
How are you?
Very well.
You're up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, mate.
That's all right.
God's country.
You're not a Woi Woi High boy as well, are you?
I did go to Woi Woi High for two years.
I was 80s boy and then, yeah, 11, 12.
Went to Woi Woi.
You're 11 and 12.
So what years?
What actual annual?
19...
2000s.
What are we talking about?
1990 finished year 12.
So I think maybe a couple of years.
Three years before me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I only did 11 and 12 as well.
That was all I did.
And now it's a big campus across Humana High and everything.
So it's a weird different world up there.
Sure is.
Anyway, what can I do for you, mate?
Yeah, so I'm with Optus.
And I've had a...
I've been on a, well, almost three year plan with them.
I've got a Samsung Fold 5 and a small business plan with them.
It ends in August.
And they've just put up the price of my plan.
So I feel like it started at $49 a month now.
Then I went to $55.
Now it's about to go to $60 a month on top of the device
repayments.
You know, it's a bit of an expensive phone.
But I do love the phone actually.
But yeah, so it just got me thinking, if I was to...
So it's about, I think it's $288 left to pay on the device
repayments.
If I was to sort of order from Optus now, would they just charge me
the $288 on the next bill when it cancels?
And then, you know, I could go look at...
I think I looked at Boost.
Boost was like $21.67 for a six month plan, which is obviously
a lot better than 60 a month on the plan.
So I was thinking, is that the best way to go?
Because I've also got Optus sub hub.
I've got three subscriptions to get the 10% saving there.
So then also what happens with those three subscriptions?
That's a good point.
So sub hub.
So let's just talk about that for a second.
So what subscriptions have you got within it?
Netflix, Prime and Microsoft 365.
And how much are you saving a month?
Oh, it's not much.
It's like 10%.
So whatever, Netflix is 30 Prime and other 10.
It's a bit less than that.
But and then Microsoft offers before 15 or something.
So whatever, 10% of that, it's not much.
Yeah.
Let's call it 10 bucks a month.
Yep.
For simplicity.
Oh, look, you will need to talk to Optus to confirm.
But my guess is it's been a long time since we've had actually
contracted monthly plans.
You are more likely contracted for the phone.
So as you say, you've got to pay out on the phone.
That's normally where you're at.
Are you looking to switch to the Telstra network?
Or are you saying boost just because of a deal you found?
Yeah.
And you've spoken about it.
And yeah, that's all really.
I only say that because, you know,
I'm a sim, which is on the Optus network also have 12 month
plans.
So, you know, if you're happy with the coverage that you're
getting, then you're in a good place.
Do you know how much data you're using every month?
It's not a lot.
Like I do actually listen to podcasts all day long,
like I'm a mobile detailer on my own,
AirPods in whatever.
And I just listen to podcasts all day,
but actually looked at it recently.
And it's not that much.
So I mean, I don't know.
It might be a couple of gigs or something.
Yeah, exactly.
And this has been my biggest bug bear.
I had one of the telcos ring me.
In fact, it was Optus.
I'll tell you this.
They rang me and said, oh, we're putting our prices up.
We should let you know.
But of course we're offering more data.
I went, data that people don't need.
People don't need more data.
We do not need more data.
No, no one is using all their data.
You know, it's unbelievable.
This thing up from 70 to 80 gigs.
I looked at mine.
I get 250 gigabytes a month.
Like, what are we talking about?
I don't use 30.
It's remarkable.
So, you know, even at the.
So, so let's just talk a may seem for a minute.
Right.
A may seems 150 gigabyte plan.
Actually, no, let's not look at that one.
It's only half a year.
200 gigabyte plan.
Right.
So that's more than 10 gigabytes per month is $270 in advance.
Right.
So $270 upfront.
You've also got to pay your 288 exit fee.
We know that.
Right.
So you're looking at $558 for 12 months.
If you kind of just bundle that exit fee in.
Right.
Yeah.
What's, what's remarkable though is if you then go, okay,
let's divide what I'm paying there by 12.
So 12 months in advance for a may seem on the Optus network.
Your phone is paid out and you own it because you love it.
You're paying.
You're upfront.
You're paying $558, which is $46.50 a month.
Yeah.
Which is going back to less than what you were paying when you first got the plan.
Yeah.
And mate, who cares about the $10 you're saving on sub hub because add that on and you're
still lower than what you're currently being asked to pay for, for the plan.
And that includes the buy it.
If you ignore the buy out.
Okay.
If you ignore the buy it and just go sunken costs, I'm going to buy the phone.
It's $22 a month to be on a may seem.
Yeah.
Well, that's what the boost is 2167 for six, you know, over six months.
And one of the things is I use my phone, small business on the road.
I take payments with my phone.
So I really want to make sure I've got a good, the best network because you know,
there's a couple of weird spots on the coast.
Yeah.
You want to work.
It's a bit of a pain.
So mate, you know, the great thing there is again, you've got that boost mobile option.
They're 12 month Sims.
Look, they've gone up in price.
We have to admit the, it used to be cheaper, but whatever their, their entry level one
is now $300 for a year.
But mate, $300 for a year is $25 a month.
Yeah.
Yep.
Absolutely.
If for a person like you who knows full well, you've got a great phone, you love your
phone, you're looking after it, probably got it in a case.
And you know what?
Yes, there's a new one going to come out in six months.
Yes, there's whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Keep that phone.
Yeah.
If you can just say to yourself, I'm going to keep this phone and I'm going to, I'm going
to, I'm going to pay $25 a month now on my, my, my mobile plan.
And then really what I would say to you is what's your option for your next phone.
So, so actually set a plan to buy the next phone because that phone you've got now is
going to be worth something to trade in.
Right.
That phone you've got now, what is it like a Galaxy S25 Ultra or something?
What have you got?
No, the Fold 5.
Oh, Fold.
Beautiful.
So actually though, just on that bit of a, bit of an issue.
So this is my second Fold 5 with Optus.
About, I don't know, a year ago, the factory screen protector started a bubble on the
crease, which then eventually destroyed the screen, the actual screen of the internal
screen of the phone.
And I sent it back to, I went and bought a little $200 phone for it because it was going
to be out of the phone for a couple of weeks.
They sent me a, that was destroyed, they sent me a refurbished Fold 5.
This is my second one.
So I'm a little worried that's going to happen again.
I want to get rid of it, I think after my, after August, when I would have paid the
device repayments anyway, I'm actually thinking I might get rid of it and look something else.
Do you, are you sticking with the Fold?
Are you desperate for the Fold?
Oh, I love it.
But in this, in this world, this economy, I may have to go to something a little bit
cheaper.
I hear you're talking about the Pixel 10, maybe I'll jump ship, but I've been, I've been
Samsung since, I don't know, I don't know, S5, S7, something, I don't know.
But you know, the most underrated Samsung phone is actually the standard Galaxy S26.
Yeah.
Or even the S26 plus.
See, you know why no one really talks about them?
Because Samsung don't offer them to us to review.
Like if I, if I wanted to review a Galaxy S26, I'm going to go and buy one.
Now they don't sell them in the same numbers as they do the Ultra.
I get that.
But also people don't talk about them enough because they don't push it.
They push the big one.
They push the expensive one because it's better on a plan and there's bigger margins.
The standard S26 or S26 plus, great phone.
Even when they bring out the FE edition, like the S25 FE, what they call a fan edition,
mate, they're great phones, great screen, same software, all those cool features,
more features than you've currently got because that's a couple years old, that phone.
So if you can bring yourself to go, you know what, I'm going to be smart on my budget.
It is an annoying thing because I've normally just gotten this cool phone every year on these plans.
But you now know why because they drive the plans up and they sucker people in to stay with them.
So as much as it's a grind, I think, you know, downgrading yourself to a different phone
when that one gives itself up, like push that one till the end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
But remember, $25 a month.
That's what you're going to be paying for the mobile plan.
So the other $40 a month that you were going to have to pay,
or let's just call it $30 a month, you know, that's the money you've got to spend on a phone.
And by the way, remember, you were paying $60 a month plus the device repayments.
Absolutely.
It's big.
How much are you spending a month on the device?
Oh, well, because I think it's like 70 plus the 60 plus all the subscriptions.
It's like 178 a month for everything.
Yeah.
And that's what I was wanting to do with the subscriptions.
Like if I pulled away or cancel, I can't find any options on in the sub hub where you just like can remove them from some hub,
but not cancel the subscription.
They all just want to cancel it.
Yeah.
You need to look at the migration of them.
So I would reach out to, so Microsoft 365 would probably be the most problematic because they're not normally one that you go back and forth on.
But Amazon, is it linked to your email address or an Optos email address?
Be mine.
Yeah.
Well, mate, then I just think you go to amazon.com.au and change the billing.
Right.
Okay.
Yep.
And the same with Netflix.
Yeah.
Change the billing.
Yeah.
Right.
And at worst, open up a tech support query with them to say, I want to do that.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll try that.
All right, mate.
Good luck.
And I just got eyes on focus.
You're going to be good with your money.
That's what you're going to do.
And you're going to save big time.
Once you own a phone outright, you're going to save big time.
That's worth it.
Yep.
Can't wait.
Thanks, Trevor.
All right, mate.
Good on you.
Thanks for getting in touch.
All right.
Cheers.
Cheers, buddy.
There you go.
Look, it is hard, but you know, he's paying 100 and something bucks a month to 70 plus 60.
It's 130 odd.
There's some more going on there.
That was a lot of money.
I'll plus the subscription.
Yes.
So let's just call it, forget the subscriptions.
Let's just call it 70 and 60, 130 a month.
And his device still works, right?
So he's going from $1,560 a year to $300.
That's $1,200 a year saved.
In a year and a half, you've got enough for a new phone.
That's the way I look at it.
And you don't have to buy a $3,000 phone.
But if you want to, then you just budget that and you're going, I'm going to budget that
and I'm going to put away $25 a month to pay for the next one.
And then you get in the cycle.
If you really do want to upgrade regularly, do it every three to four years and trade in.
Trade in, take advantage of those deals.
Great to have you company and happy to help you if you've got a tech question.
Anytime you like.
Jamie's on the line.
Good day, Jamie.
Hi, good day.
How are you going?
Mate, really good.
What can I do for you?
Mate, yeah, because I've got an old Chrome book that I've had for the hand me down from
my mom.
And yeah, I was sort of in the market for looking for either a new Chrome book or I think they've
probably died out a bit now.
The old Chrome box.
I had one of those trophies as well, like an Acer one, I think it was.
Oh, right.
An actual little desktop style machine.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I initially bought it off Amazon, you know, from the US or whatever.
And it's sort of past its use by date.
And the Chrome books that I've got, it's only a sort of budget one.
And it really doesn't, you know, perform very well, lags and whatever else.
So I've got a set up at home with two monitors that I'd like to sort of, you know, use the
two monitors and have something that works a bit, you know, a bit more streamlined just
for booking travel and, you know, surfing the net and doing all that sort of business
stuff, personal business stuff.
What's your budget?
Look, I'd like to only spend 500, but I think I've had a bit of a look and I think I've
probably got to spend more than that.
Maybe around a thousand, possibly even more.
But I'm happy to do that, you know, like, because I haven't purchased a Chromebook or
a laptop for that matter, you know, probably five years now.
And have you, have you had any constraints with having a Chromebook?
You're still happy to have a Chromebook?
Yeah, I mean, I've got a Windows laptop that I've, that I've got for work.
So I can use it if I need to.
But yeah, I just like the idea of being signed into all the Google products and, you know,
the email and all that sort of stuff.
Yeah, that's right.
All the passwords and everything.
So it just, you know, works better with, you know, Android phone as well.
So yeah, it just all works in nicely with Mac and iOS, I guess.
I mean, the Chromebook, I've had the ASUS CX-14.
My kids have used that at school.
Oh yeah.
I've had to play around with it.
It's got 128 gigabyte of storage.
It's about 750 bucks.
See, Chromebooks don't need a lot.
Chromebooks really don't need a lot.
And when you, when you spec them up.
So like, if you go to JB's, there's a 14 inch Lenovo there that's, you know,
you've got 256 gigabyte of storage and it's $1,400.
You say, what am I paying the extra for?
Yeah, yeah.
It's got a touch screen and it's an OLED screen.
You know, there's, there's some, but if you're going to hook it up to some monitors,
mate, then I don't know why you would worry too much about the OLED screen
and having the better screen.
So that's right.
Yeah, the screen, I'll just have to have that, you know,
closed once it's connected via USB-C, which is what I was doing with the old one.
There's just the old one, just, you know, it's probably past its use by date as well.
And it just, yeah, it's just slow to use.
You have to, you know, you click on something and it takes a few seconds to sort of do anything.
Yeah.
Mate, honestly, I think, I think you're right.
500 is probably not enough for what you want.
Yeah.
Because you've got to remember when you're, when you're hooking up to those two screens,
this thing is pumping out those two screens.
So you're asking a little more of it.
So, but I think the ASUS CX-14 is a great little Chromebook.
I think you should be able to get one for under 800 bucks.
And I think it'll do everything you need it to do.
Okay.
That sounds good.
And just one more question.
True.
Just on the, I found a Promethean Chromebox.
Now I've never heard of it before.
Neither have I.
No.
Okay.
No, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Cause it's, um, yeah, they were about $523.
I do like the idea of a Chromebox and I know that they're not readily available anymore
and they're quite expensive.
But I do like the idea of that because, you know, like, I don't need the display.
I'm not using it as a portal device.
But, um, yeah, maybe I'm better off just to stick with it with the Lenovo.
The problem with the, the problem with the Chromebox is they're built for people who are
doing things like, uh, you know, running kind of content off the network and all that kind
of stuff.
It's like a, an interface to the network to content.
Yeah.
I don't think they're built for everyday use like you're talking about.
Um, they may have been originally.
Uh, but I think that in your, in your price, in your price point, if you end up with a
Windows computer, it's going to be slower and more laggy than what you're talking about
with a Chromebook.
So I think, I think the Chromebook is the sweet spot for you.
Asus.
Yeah.
Okay.
About 750.
Yeah.
About 750.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The other thing I did do just to let you know, I did try out Samsung, Samsung decks on my
tablet.
Oh, did you?
Um, yeah, I did.
It works really well, but it doesn't support dual external displays, but it actually was
faster than, it was actually faster than the Chromebook, which was surprising.
Um, so it's a shame that, I mean, I know you can sort of do a bit of Frankenstein work
and, and get, you know, with some adapters or whatever.
But yeah, it's probably not worth it.
So I'm better off just to get a Chromebook, I think.
Wow.
And the dual displays are critical for you, are they?
Yeah.
Well, I sort of had, like I've got an office at home and, and I mean, I don't use the work
laptop from home much anymore.
I used to work from home a lot more, but yeah, it's more, more like if I am at home, I do
four on four off.
So when I'm at home, I just want like a good setup for, you know, doing what I need to
do, booking travel and, you know, all that sort of stuff.
Um, you know, if I'm looking to purchase something in the market for maybe a electric bike as
well.
So yeah, I just love having these, the dual displays.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
Well, mate, I think the ASUS Chromebook is for you.
Okay.
Awesome.
Thanks.
No worries at all.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Cheers, mate.
No worries at all.
Cheers.
Um, yeah, I mean, um, they're a great device.
And, and it's funny because I wouldn't normally go that hard on the recommendation, but because
of his experience with the Chromebook, it just makes sense.
You're listening to the EFTM podcast.
You can text Trev now, thanks to Vodafone on 047657657.
Great to have you company and would love to hear from you if you've got a tech question
or you want to talk anything tech in your life.
Diane's on the like of a Diane.
Hi, Trevor.
How are you?
Really good.
What can I do for you?
No, you asked to speak to me.
Oh, we're going to talk about Foxtel, right?
We were.
Absolutely.
Tell me, tell me your Foxtel story.
Okay.
I've had Foxtel since I think it was Oster.
Yeah.
Going right back.
I think it was originally Oster.
Yeah.
So are you, uh, do you live in the metro area or regional?
Because Oster was very much satellite.
Um, no, I was in, I was in the Sutherland Shire.
Okay.
Um, so I don't know.
Whatever the first, I got the first, um, hey,
service that was available.
It might have been Galaxy even.
Oh, look, I'm 76.
Come on, give me a break.
So, yeah, so now I've never not had Foxtel.
Yeah, right.
Um, and there's a number of reasons, um,
which you obviously wanted to know why.
First of all, I was lucky enough to go to Las Vegas last year with my boys
and to see my fabulous sharks play.
And, um, I recorded all the games there on my Foxtel box.
Yep.
And a lot of the shows that they did before and after.
So we could come home and watch them.
Um, so I do that.
I record, if there's a cooking show on and I want a particular recipe,
I record that.
Um, I record football matches if my husband's not around and I don't
think they're all on streaming.
Right.
Um, so they're my main reasons.
I hate fast forward on streaming.
The ads are ridiculous.
Um, you get about 15 minutes of ads.
So if it's on my Foxtel box, I can fast forward it.
So it's safe to say kind of having Foxtel is more like the old VHS
experience for you because if you tape something,
you can fast forward through to what you want.
You can get back to where you want.
You can put on what you want, when you want,
as opposed to every bit of content on Foxtel is available on streaming
somewhere, but you're definitely going to be faced with pre-roll
and mid-roll ads that you can't skip.
That's one of the biggest negatives for you.
Well, would all the Las Vegas games be on there from last year?
Yes, they would be.
They would be.
But here's the thing, probably hard to find,
you know, because there's so much content.
When you look at, so if I look at KO Sports, for example,
which I think is an unbelievable website and streaming service.
Who's the shark?
The sharks play it?
No, they didn't play it at Vegas last year.
They did.
Who'd they play?
Yes, they did.
That's why we went.
Sharks V.
They played Penrith.
Penrith.
And we lost.
Oh, no.
He went all the way.
It was a close game.
Oh, the atmosphere.
Anyone who can get to Vegas to watch their team play.
Is it worth it?
Absolutely worth every penny.
I had the best time of my life.
Oh, had you been to Vegas before?
My father was 49 and 51.
Pardon?
Had you been to Vegas before?
Yes, four times.
Oh, wow.
I love the place.
I want to go.
I would invite me.
Let me go for the tech show this week.
I'll give my ideas to be there.
So there you go.
So was that, I'm trying to look here.
I'm looking on their website.
Was it March 2025?
We left on the second.
I think it was the last Saturday in February.
27th, 27th, it was the last Saturday in February.
Now I'm watching the game.
I'm trying to zoom out and find a wide shot where we see
whether I don't think this is Allegiant Stadium.
I'm looking wide.
Were they wearing the black jerseys with the gold?
Oh, come on.
No.
As if you don't remember.
As if you don't remember.
I don't remember.
Oh, no.
I think this is Allegiant Stadium that I've just found here.
Yes, it is.
I loved Allegiant Stadium.
You know why?
Because I think it's the short, you know,
the in goal area is quite short.
Yes, it is.
The sidelines are quite wide.
So all I did on KO, not to sell KO to you,
but all I did on KO was search Sharks, Las Vegas,
and up it came.
So, and that, that took me no time.
And, you know, I can, on KO, on the website,
you can skip where you want to go, when you want to go,
and there's no ads during the game.
It's only at halftime.
Okay.
And on KO, the ads are actually embedded in the program.
So it's not like your Channel 9 or Channel 7
catch up where the ads are kind of forced upon you in that way.
Anyway, look, I'm not trying to sell KO to you,
because you're bloody happy with Foxtel.
No, no, no.
What does it matter?
But I record.
I don't watch anything live.
I'm free to air.
Yeah, right.
Every show that I watch is recorded on my Foxtel box.
Yeah.
Wow.
So it does.
And I'm also telling you,
I'm presently down the South Coast, okay?
We've got a holiday house down here,
and we only have streaming Foxtel.
Well, we're watching the footy over the weekend,
and several times it knocked out.
I had to keep reconnecting.
Yeah, it's frustrating.
It's not the same as...
You know what?
You sell on the box box.
I mean, the other thing is,
it's bloody expensive to have all the streaming services now.
It used to be that it was so cheap,
you had to get all the streaming services.
But nowadays, what are you paying for Foxtel every month?
Do you know?
I'm paying $62.
$62 with sport?
Yes.
Do you know how much KO costs?
Yeah, I used to have it for my husband,
but he refused to pay for it,
so I cancelled it.
Yeah, it's like $40 now.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Seriously, I'm paying $62.
I get the movies, I get the sport.
With movies?
Did you negotiate that with him?
Um, it was $58,
and they put it up to $62 last year,
and I'm still paying $62 coming out of my account.
I'm just looking at their website.
Foxtel's winning the...
I don't got me in.
I might lose it.
No, no, $69 a month per month
on a 12-month plan.
Normally, $108,
so I wonder if it'll go up after that
if I was to sign up again.
It doesn't say you get movies for that.
It says HBO Max, which is a streaming service.
Foxtel Plus,
and does have the sport.
But you get the movies as well.
Yeah, I do.
I'm sorry about that.
They are loving you as a loyal customer.
That's what it seems to me.
Well, I would hope so,
but can I keep you...
I don't want to keep you.
I know you've got lots of things to talk about.
I found something very interesting.
Now, and this is a plug for streaming, I guess.
I want to watch Outlander, right?
Right.
But I want to watch it when it all...
series eight, when it all came down.
Well, when I went under Foxtel to have a look,
because I've been overseas,
I can only find from episode four, Upwards.
And they only have each episode on Foxtel Box
for four weeks, and then it disappears.
Oh, really?
Well, that's where you need Netflix, I guess.
So, no.
No, it's not on Netflix.
It's not series eight.
Series eight.
Foxtel's down.
Series eight.
Series eight, ten episodes.
You're right.
It's only on Foxtel and Binge.
Yes.
And then they're only there for four weeks,
and then they disappear.
They are.
But I went under ChatGPT,
because other people have been complaining about it.
I know.
I'm not allowed to say.
No, that's good.
I love it.
And so I did a search,
and it told me,
don't just put in series eight.
Put in series eight episodes one to three.
And I actually found it embedded in Foxtel Go.
So it is still there?
It is still there on Foxtel Go,
but it's not a...
If you go in your Foxtel Box
and look on your Foxtel programs,
it only gives you, now, it's episode...
series eight, episode five.
The other four are disappearing.
Don't ask me how it works.
Outlander, is it?
Yes.
Outlander.
Which has...
It has season eight episodes,
one, two, three, four, and five.
Okay.
Well, that's on Binge.
But if you go into the Foxtel Guide,
it's only got...
When I try to look to record it,
it's only got the current one, episode five.
Right.
So this is where Binge wins.
So Binge wins one.
Yes.
Yes.
Binge wins.
Binge wins.
But I can watch it.
I can.
I know.
If you look closer,
I think Foxtel goes basically Binge now anyway.
Okay.
Well, I have to stream it
to watch those few episodes.
No, not the end of the world.
Outlander, you must love it.
It must be a good show.
But anyway...
I've never seen it myself.
Oh, well, it's pretty brutal.
A lot of men don't like it.
Oh, really brutal?
I won't go into reasons why.
I won't go into reasons why.
Pardon?
Why is that?
I don't know if I can say it on here.
Oh, go for your life.
Oh, okay.
Well, they have a...
About a 10-minute rape scene with two men.
Oh, right, okay.
Oh, no, I'm sorry about that.
Do you want to bleep that out?
Okay, I certainly won't be watching, though.
That's for sure.
No, and that's why my husband wouldn't watch it either.
And I know if you...
Anyway, that's beside the point.
I love my Foxtel box.
I'm not getting rid of it.
And I just love to be able to record things
and watch it when I want to watch it.
Good on you.
Long live the Foxtel box.
And I love your work, Trevor.
I listen to tech like other people read, you know,
recipe books or something like that.
Oh, that's lovely.
Good on you.
I'm a tech fanatic.
Good on you, Trevor.
Lovely to hear from you.
Go the Sharksies.
Absolutely.
Thanks, Trevor.
Bye.
Good on you.
See ya.
No worries at all.
There you go.
Diane...
I didn't want to say anything, but she sent a text.
That's why she said I rang her.
She sort of heard you on 2GB, which she didn't.
She was listening to someone else.
It was probably Steven, to be honest.
And because I've been on 2GB for so long,
she's just remembered my name and gone searching and found me.
But anyway, there you go.
Foxtel's still a winner for Diane.
Great to have you company.
And we'd love to speak to you about tech.
If you've got a question, you've got a problem,
whatever it might be.
Or you bought something cool.
Get in touch.
We'd love to hear from you.
Warren's on the line.
Good day, Warren.
How you going, Trevor?
I'm real good.
You bought something cool.
I bought one of the new Pocket AI voice recorders.
Now, there was a few of these going around.
There was a rabbit one.
There was a few of these kind of ideas.
Is this one a device of its own,
or does it pair with your phone?
How does it work?
It pairs with a Pocket AI app on the phone.
Right.
It also attaches to the back of the phone
with a MagSafe sort of magnet.
Gotcha.
I'm looking at it now on their website.
It's called HeyPocket.com.
Yep, gotcha.
That's it.
Yeah.
Why, if it's an app,
why does it need to be a little box as well?
Oh, you got me on.
I didn't design it, mate.
But I just know that the box does the recording.
So sorry, I'm doing it.
The box does the recording,
and then it syncs the recording with the app on the phone.
So you're not actually recording through your phone.
And I think the reason they do that is
when you're recording a conversation on the phone,
it uses the vibration through the phone to record it
rather than the, I guess, the speaker.
Right.
So does the box work on its own without the phone in any way?
It does.
It doesn't work completely offline.
So I carry it around with me.
And I just hit it once and it starts recording.
I have meetings and dialogue recorded.
Does your phone need to be in your pocket as well?
Is it doing that via Bluetooth?
No.
Or is it recording onto it?
And then when you open the app,
it synchronizes and downloads all those things.
Yeah, it synchronizes.
It synchronizes.
So I can be driving along,
have the not paired with the phone,
do a brain dump of ideas with information onto it.
And it will then just give me a,
when I sync it and it transcribes it,
it will then give me a summary of the conversation
or the brain dump.
It'll give me the highlights.
It'll give me what actions or to-do list comes out of that.
Wow.
You're selling me now.
Hang on.
So does it then integrate with any AI services
or does it have its own AI?
Well, that's interesting.
It has its own AI,
but I asked it,
I asked it whether it would integrate with chat GPT
because I use that a lot for my business.
And it said, or a separate platform.
However, it gave me a text or some code
to then put into chat GPT
and it basically asked chat GP
to give it my profile or everything that knows about me.
And it then imported that to my pocket AI profile.
So now everything I ask pocket AI
or everything I transcribed to it,
it comes back with a lot of detail
that it wouldn't normally know about me
because it's now downloaded my chat profile.
Mate, I've got my finger over the checkout button,
but I want it to go the other way.
I've been actually playing a lot with AI
over the last couple of weeks
to try and just make me a better worker.
So I spent some time before Easter
even talking about,
it's talking to Claude
because producer Rob's a big fan of Claude.
So I was talking to Claude,
I'm like, how can you help me?
I'm a small business operator.
I work alone and I struggle with time management
and also motivation sometimes.
So sometimes I get nothing done.
And he said, okay, so what do we need to do?
We went back and forth for a while
and then it came up with this project
and it says to me,
right, every morning ask me this,
every afternoon ask me this
and let's keep you on track.
And so actually today was the first day I used it
and it came up with a,
it asked me too many questions and I said,
listen, shut up now, I'm done, we're good.
Let's move on.
But it helped me with a bunch of things.
But what I like about what you're selling me here is,
not you're not selling it to me,
but what you're telling me about you,
what you've got is,
I'm like you, sometimes I just want a brain dump.
So I'm driving and if this could be in my top pocket,
let alone my side pocket,
I'd just pick a button,
pick it up and press a button
and that's listening.
Is that what's happening basically?
It's exactly mate.
It is about a size of a credit card.
It's about an eight to the means tick.
It's got one button,
watch your two buttons,
on off, so record, stop recording.
It picks up everything very clearly.
The beauty I find, Trevor,
is it allows me to take phone calls from clients
when I'm on the move.
It allows me to put my own information,
my own brain dump into it.
It allows me to record meetings
and it will give me a summary
of that conversation or that meeting.
It will then give me all my to-do items
that I've agreed to in that meeting
and it will then give me a Google task
to do item to export to Google task.
So it's all in front of me.
And basically I've got a whole,
I've had it for four days.
I've got about 35 things in there already
that I'm just now working my way through.
So rather than getting lost in the morning,
you know, what am I doing?
Everything's in front of me.
I just sort of plough through it.
Wow.
Do you need a subscription?
So it comes with a basic free plan.
But for about 19 bucks a month,
I'll just upgrade to the pro version
and it gives you so much more.
It even gives you mind maps.
So once it's done the summary,
the conversation, the highlights of this transcript,
the bullet points,
it'll then give you your to-do or your action items
or any calendar events you've nominated.
And then it will put that into a mind map
into that kind of person.
And now the good thing about this one
or I found is it was,
I think designed more for the corporate,
a lot of meetings, a lot of strategic stuff.
But I said to Pocket AI,
a lot of my phone calls are service-based clients
who want my business to come and do work for them.
So it helped me design a specific template
to put that conversation into.
So it comes with about a dozen different templates.
And mostly you leave it on auto and it just finds its way.
But it walked through my business with me
and developed an exact template
that dumps the name, the address, the phone number,
the email, the task, the question,
what I've committed to, blah, blah, blah.
So I can export that straight to my CRM,
log a job and schedule it.
I'm fascinated.
I've just bought one.
So well done.
I think for me what I'm going to try with it is,
if you mentioned meetings and stuff,
I don't do a lot of meetings and most of them are Zoom.
And I have this AI that now joins Zoom calls and things,
but I'm wondering whether I should have it sitting there
listening to Zoom calls and things,
the odd in-person meeting.
But I think for me it's going to be just those little,
if I just keep it in my pocket and I just go,
don't forget I need to review this or don't forget.
And then that list, all I need to do
is I need to then work on how to manage that list.
And it may be that I don't use Pocket
for the actual management.
Maybe I do export my list to Claude or somewhere else,
but for the note taking,
and people are shouting at their podcast going,
there's an app for Claude and ChatGbt.
You can just tell ChatGbt,
but my problem is it's a weird thing to say,
but I don't want to open up an app and say,
don't forget this and do this.
I just want to press a button and do that.
This is all it does, Trevor.
It just, you press a button, you tell it what she wants.
It's not like a ChatGbt to ask a question.
It's more like I want to do a strategic operating plan
of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
and just mind dumb button,
ram along for 10 minutes,
and it would just concisely put into a summary,
overview, bullet points,
you then transfer that to everyone, transfer it to.
But it doesn't have to be on your phone.
You can just leave it in your pocket, click it,
and off you go.
And I got on Thursday
and I had about 37 conversations with already.
Yeah, wow.
And it's doing everything.
As a small business who's just taking
phone calls, emails,
text, voice mails,
it'll even record your voice mails for you.
You just leave it on the back of the phone and press record
when it plays.
It uses the vibration of the phone to record the voice mail
and put it in a to-do item for you.
Yeah, and it's now created my own template
that I can use.
So it's doing everything I need to do.
Because I, probably like yourself,
I don't have a lot of corporate meetings,
but in my service business,
I'll look at my desk some days and go,
what am I doing? Where am I up to?
And I've got so much stuff going on.
Someone will ring me, I'll scribble something down
in my bit of paper and I can't find it.
Yeah, mate, here's what happened to me.
Someone rings me and I'll just go click.
I have in front of me on my desk at all times
an A4 sheet of paper, weirdly, sideways,
and I write on the right-hand side of it a list.
It's my to-do list.
Things that I think I want to get done or need to get done,
whatever, whatever.
I went to America two weeks ago,
a couple weeks ago, for like three days,
and I thought I'll rewrite my list.
Okay, good, done, that'll be useful.
I sat at the airport in the lounge
and I was working through the list.
And I left the list at the airport.
I got to America and went, oh, man.
And there are probably things on that list
that I will never remember until, I don't know,
someone sends an email saying,
why haven't you done this or that?
And it's going to frustrate the hell out of me,
but yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
So stand by, give me a month
and I'll work out whether the pocket is good for me as well.
Tell me whether it's good, because it also gives you...
How long did it take to arrive?
It was about three days.
Oh, okay, right, cool.
Very quick, it gives you a daily summary.
So if you've missed something,
you just look at your daily summary.
It's been amazing for me to just, like you,
I don't want to write stuff down.
I just want to get it on the computer and then action it.
Or this allows me to put stuff into my schedules
and my work templates or my admin people can do stuff for me.
I can forward stuff to them.
It takes a load off me.
Nice.
Well, thank you for enlightening me
and I look forward to having a play with it myself, mate.
My pleasure, young man.
Good on you, buddy.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Talk soon, Jeff.
Cheers, mate, no worries.
There you go.
I just spent $200, buddy.
Thanks to Warren.
Bloody hell, Warren, what are you doing to me?
But anyway, that's the kind of impulse idiot I am
when you've got adult money
and you just want to be better at things.
I am genuinely trying to just be better at being organised
and stuff, so we'll see.
Anyway, if you've discovered something cool
that you think I should have
or someone else should have, then let me know.
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About this episode
A lively tech talkback show focused on how everyday tech choices affect real work and daily life. Trev helps callers with: switching an elderly iPhone user to a newer model without losing Apple ID contacts; whether to revive a failing Intel MacBook Pro or buy a Mac mini; cutting mobile costs when telco plans rise (including how to handle device pay-out and sub hub subscriptions); choosing a Chromebook for dual-monitor home use; and why one caller still prefers a Foxtel set-top box for recording and fast-forwarding. The standout segment is a Pocket AI voice recorder that captures conversations and turns them into summaries and to-do items, with optional ChatGPT profile syncing.
Original notes
As far as technology goes, Artificial Intelligence is a legitimate and generational game-changer. How are you using it? Get in touch with Trev by texting 0477 657 657 thanks to Vodafone - we'd love to hear from you.
This week we hear from a man with a new gadget that Trev hasn't heard of - that's what we want - your reviews!
Plus questions about Apple ID and devices, Mobile plan savings, Chromebook options and loving Foxtel - yes, Loving Foxtel!
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