Two Blokes Talking Tech
EFTM: Looking for a BIG TV in the EOFY sales, and talking HP Laptops and AI on board
24 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What big TV is Sean considering for EOFY sales?
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I was gobsmacked. I spoke to you on the Tuesday. Thursday afternoon, there's this lovely courier man at my back door with a parcel for me.
All I know is within 24 hours, mate, you had it sorted after five weeks of hell, raising hell. Mate, I can't thank you enough. Join the conversation. Head to EFTM.com and click Ask Trev. Helping Australians with tech questions for over 15 years. The EFTM podcast with Trevor Long. Real Australians. Real questions. Every week. You can text Trev now. Thanks to Vodafone on 0477 657 657.
Thank you for listening. Great to have your company once again here on the EFGM podcast. Busy show. We've got a bunch of calls to get through. I'm not sure I'm going to solve these issues. A couple of Apple issues ahead. I'm looking at the call sheet, but we'll get there. And we're going to talk laptops. Now, the reason I want to talk laptops with Mark Benson from HP.
is because it's got to be a month ago now. It was before London and Apple, which was a few weeks ago. I went to an event with HP. They call it the HP Hotel. They took over the W Hotel in Sydney's Darling Harbour and had a couple of hotel rooms there where they just showcased a bunch of their products. It opened my eyes a little bit.
Sometimes you kind of just get shown a product and you're like, cool, cool, cool. Sometimes you think you know a product and then you're like, wait a minute, what? And so that was a bit this way. I was like, oh, right. So I want to unpack that a little bit with Mark from HP as well as take your calls. And most important, I'd love to hear from you.
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Chapter 2: What should you do if your Apple account disappears after theft?
They can send a WhatsApp or a text or they can go to the website eftm.com and click Ask Trev. It doesn't matter what the question is. I'll try and help as best I can. If I can't help, I'll find someone who can, broadly speaking. So that's just what we do here. We've got a bit coming up. Next week, we're going to talk TVs again with Chris Mayer from Hisense. Can't wait to catch up with Chris.
He's been on a honeymoon for many, many weeks. He's one of the absolute nerds and legends of Hisense. So we'll find out more about their TV range for this year. But that's next week. I'm just looking ahead of the rundown. But no, most importantly this week, we've got a bit to get through your calls as well as talking laptops with HP. But yeah, let me know what you've bought recently.
What have you purchased? You know what? Weirdly, I've been playing with a cassette player. We should catch up with that lovely lady who's been writing those songs for the elderly in the aged care home. We did send her a radio of some sort from Laser, but I suspect the expense of buying SD cards will probably make that... a non-starter for her.
But anyway, Laser sent me at the same time one of their little retro cassette boomboxes. And I do have a few cassettes here. I've got a cassette here, which I definitely won't be sharing. And it's me calling Talkback Radio in 1996. Four, maybe 95. I'm calling Straight Talk with David Tapp, which was where I first got into the media. So I would ring the radio every weekend.
David would say, introduce Trevor on the line from Italy. G'day, Sparkplug. Sparkplug, Trevor. Well, see, Tappie's been coming to my office here. He's using my studio for his new podcast. And we started talking about that and I went, oh, no, I've definitely got to tape somewhere, but I don't think I want to play it.
And I listened to it and, my God, my voice, I'm like a nine-year-old and I'm pretty sure I was at least 16, maybe 17. Anyway, weirdly, I was just playing that back and then I just, I've got a few cassettes of different weird things.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of recovering data from a stolen Apple account?
So, yeah, I've been going full retro. But what I can't find, I've got one somewhere. is I've got a cassette to USB so I can play it and ingest it into an audio file. Because even though I don't want to listen to myself, I want to save it and essentially put it in a Dropbox so it's there forever. Because it's a fascinating thing. I've got in my possession a leather...
portfolio, briefcase, not really a briefcase. It's more of a, like a leather soft bag. But it was my dad's. My dad died 50 years ago. So this bag is 50 years old, but it has his initials on it, TWL, which are my initials. And so I've been taking photos of that and getting it. I was trying to find someone in Sydney who will restore it. Because I want to restore it, but not make it brand new.
Like I still want to have the like the handle I don't want to touch because my dad held that handle and I want it to feel that way but the metal clasps and everything and anything that's kind of been unsewn anything that needs repair might get that all done and whether it can be loosened up a bit but anyway inside it was all this stuff and Here's the crazy thing.
I found all these newspapers that my mum had obviously kept over her time with dad, just mentions of dad in the paper or anything. And there was a box of matches. And I found that my dad worked at the Daily Mirror as a classified salesman for a very short amount of time. Anyway, it's one of those weird things. You start going down memory lane when you have artifacts like that.
And so I think the tape recordings of me, whether it's singing or on the radio, aren't things I ever want to share with the world. But I figure when I'm dead, the kids can listen to them. It's about as good as it's going to get. Anyway, enough about me. Let's get on with the show and take your calls. 0477 657 657. Send me a text if you want to talk tech.
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Get in touch if there's something you want to talk about or a question you've got. We'd love to try and help you out. Sean's on the line. G'day, Sean.
Hey, how are you?
Mate, really, really good. What can we do for you?
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Chapter 4: How can you secure your Apple devices against theft?
So 98, you know, TCL is kicking into the six grand mark. 100-inch, though, at that price. Hisense have got the U7, which was listed originally at like $6,999.
Yeah, that's the one that I was looking at the other day.
Right now, it's $4,900.
Yes, they were offering it about $47. Yeah, yeah. I could get it in the store sort of thing, but I just wasn't sure. I've had a couple of smaller Hisense TVs just for my kids and things, and they seemed fine. But I had a 75-inch Sony previously, but it had the Google operating system, and I just found it terribly slow and not particularly good. Yeah.
Look, I've got ā I would say it's the equivalent 100-inch TV at home, but it's from, I don't know, three years ago maybe. I think mine was called the U7KAU, which was still on sale ā might still be on sale in some places. Sure. But the one you're looking at is ā you want the 2026 model, let's be honest. Like the one I've got is literally the 2023 model. Yeah. Mate, I love it. It's perfect.
Yes, if I put a brand new TV next to it, I'd probably notice some differences in contrast and color and all those kind of things. Sure. What apps do you use? What are you streaming?
Just the normal ones, you know, KO, Netflix, Disney, that type of thing.
There's nothing unique or weird that you watch? No. We watch the Major League Baseball. We love our MLB, and there's no MLB app on the Hisense TV. So it's quite a pain in the ass for me to watch the MLB.
I've got a Fetch TV logged in normally into HDMI 1, and so I have to plug a Google Chromecast into that because I do like the Google operating system that you had on the Sony, so it's disappointing to hear it was sluggish.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest advancements in HP laptops and AI technology?
I don't think you'll have a problem at all, mate. You'll be loving it. How quickly are you trying to buy it?
Well, I was just going to buy it in the sales because our property is going to be finished in a month or two and they said they'll just hold the stock and you can just collect it at any time sort of thing. Yeah.
Hey, that's pretty good because I was going to say the other thing is, mate, a 100-inch TV is enormous in a box.
Yeah, I know.
You said you're moving into a unit. Is it like a high-rise unit or ā Yeah. Have you checked the size of the lift?
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Yeah, it'll fit in the lift. The table we're buying won't. We've got to carry that upstairs. Oh, no. Pivot, pivot. You're going to have some fun there. But the TV will fit in the lift, yeah.
All right, okay. Well, just make sure you check these things. Look, worst case scenario, out of the box, it's a lot smaller because obviously the box contains a lot of foam and padding and things. But, mate, in the end, you're on a winner, mate. It's a great TV. Perfect. Perfect. I appreciate your help. Enjoy the 100 inches when you fire it up, mate.
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Chapter 6: How do neural processors enhance laptop performance?
Smile on your dial. That's all it is because it's great. It's such a great way to watch TV. It's just ā it sounds ridiculous, but it just looks so much better. Yeah. It's the simple things in life, isn't it? It really is the simple things in life. And I reckon a big TV is exactly that. So enjoy.
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Great to have your company and happy to help wherever I can. 0477 657 657, the number to text. David's on the line. G'day, David.
Good morning, Trevor. How are you?
I'm really good. What can I do for you?
Trevor, I recently wrote to you regarding an issue with Apple. My youngest daughter had all her Apple devices stolen. Well, not all, everything but her iPhone. And they were stolen while she was at work. She left them in the car in a backpack. Anyway, when she got back to her car some eight hours later and realised that they'd been stolen, she did the Apple thing because she's pretty smart.
She discovered that the devices were pinging about two streets away and rang the police, but the police couldn't attend. They were too busy. Of course. And then instantly she ā I'm not an Apple person, Trevor, unfortunately, but she is. And instantly she knew she needed to lock the devices down. Yep. So she went into her iPhone, which she still had, and ā
In the device list, her laptop, her MacBook Air and her iPad and Apple Watch, they no longer existed. And it also said that her account didn't exist anymore. Yes. So I won't take up too much of your time. So the next morning we immediately went to an Apple store to the Genius Bar and we spoke to the techs there and two of them just said instantly, well, that's weird.
We've never heard of this before. And I said, well, that's why we're here. And I said, she can't log into her Apple account because her Apple account doesn't exist anymore. Right. And, and, um, and, and then another couple of texts came out and they said, oh God, we've never seen this before. They took her phone and they tried, they tried in the settings to, cause I thought it was a simple fix.
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Chapter 7: What should consumers consider when buying a laptop today?
And had a one-hour discussion with them, explained everything, gave them the case number and all that. And they said, yes, everything's here on her record, but we're sorry we can't do much for you because the account you've just given us doesn't exist. I said, well, we know that, but... But that's not her fault. But it did.
So, and I said, she's lost, you know, 27,000 photos, all her uni assignments and just terrible. So, yeah. So, my couple of questions to you are, I don't understand the cloud like you do, but I know that your data is stored in data center somewhere.
Yeah, yeah.
And what I don't understand is I said to the two guys in Sydney, how can you tell me that her data does not exist? I mean, it's somewhere. Where is it? Surely each and every Apple user has an account number and an Apple ID, and surely their data has an assignment spot somewhere.
You think of it like there's just a folder in the cloud. Why can't you just give me that folder?
Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. You're right. It's absolutely extraordinary. How old's your daughter?
23.
Okay. So she's a smart girl, as you said.
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Chapter 8: How can you future-proof your technology purchases?
And my question to the guys in Sydney was I said, you guys sell your products on what's ā you claim to be the safest platform in the world. And yet someone can steal her devices, bypass her password protection and her dual factor ID and change her account number. And I said, I accept that someone in this day and age can possibly do that. But what I want to know from you is where is her data?
Yeah. Surely.
So what I want to do is I want to get you to a point of understanding that it's possible. It's possible that it happened. And I'll explain where the data is in a minute. So I think we need to understand that if this was a prolific bug with Apple devices, I'd hear about this every week. Yeah, that's why. I don't. And I'm not suggesting your daughter did anything wrong.
I'm just saying there's a couple of things. If it's local, there's also a chance your daughter was targeted. Let's take it to the extreme. Okay, let's take it to the extreme. Let's say your daughter was targeted. She's at uni, I think, did you say?
Yeah, she's at work.
There's a criminal network at the university that purport to be studying the arts, but they're actually just wandering around profiling people based on what devices they hold, right? And I'm being extreme here, but let's say they've been watching her for months and they targeted her and they also learnt about her, right? And the reason they did that...
was because they wanted to obtain as much information as they could about her so that they could know her passwords potentially. They might have even spied on her to see her pin code, right? So we've gotten to a point. Let's just in our heads establish that someone targeted your daughter.
in such a way that they they were able to get the devices and unlock them because they found it her pin and and reset her account and password right so that allows us to say to ourselves jesus that's elaborate but that's that's how it happened right that's how it happened which leads us to the question of right where's her data and this is where you've got to understand that actually apple's processes and apple's security and privacy are exactly why the data doesn't exist anymore
Because what happens is there is a big data center with all of our data in it. But even if you were to stand in front of that computer inside a data center and say, Trevor's photos are all on this hard drive here. Even if you could see the file, you can't unlock the file without my device and without my Apple ID. It's like the code. It's like the key to getting in.
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