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**Patrick Norton** (0:00)
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**Patrick Norton** (0:43)
This is TWiT. This Week in Computer Hardware, Episode 551, recorded on January 30th, 2020 AMD Caches In, Intel Caches Out.
Welcome to TWiT's This Week in Computer Hardware, TWiT's Weekly Show. The names bring you all the hardware news, and oh my goodness, do we have a dog pile of it. Everybody talking about their financials this week, at least everybody, meaning Apple, Microsoft, AMD, and some others who will probably ignore, but some we won't. But right now, I need to introduce Mr. Sebastian Peak, audiobook consumer, much like myself.

**Sebastian Peak** (1:20)
I'm guilty, I've been listening to audiobooks for, I don't know, since my Walkman, walking around with a Walkman, like the cool kid that I was, listening to audiobooks I checked out from the local library on cassette.
And all the way leading to present day where I walk around with a phone and a pair of wireless earbuds and books. I'm the person who never listens to music unless it's just always a book.

**Patrick Norton** (1:46)
I came to audiobooks incredibly late. But I don't want to bring that up because my wife and I will probably start talking immediately in the middle of this show about the differences between listening to a book and reading a book with your eyes.

**Sebastian Peak** (2:00)
And she will immediately, obviously her position is going to be, it's so much better to listen to it, isn't it?

**Patrick Norton** (2:06)
That's exactly the opposite of her opinion on the subject.
Oh my goodness, we talk about shopping around, we talk about using tools like Camel, Camel, Camel or Instock to help you find the best deals on stuff. I need to pick up an Android phone to do some testing of a new product. And it is amazing, not so much the high end, but in the mid price, the low end Android phones, it is amazing how, I just want to say is how different or how much phones can vary in price or features like memory, depending on where you look. Because I wanted to try to pick something up where I am, I had the option of Verizon stores, Target, Best Buy and then Amazon. And it was crazy, looking at a $300 phone, you could find the same phone model, for example, from Motorola. I want to say one version with 32 gigabytes, one version with 64 gigabytes, one version with like two or three gigabytes of memory, one version with four gigabytes of memory, at the same price.
This is fascinating to me, right? So I just want to remind everybody, we always tell you to shop around, check prices, don't just look at Amazon, look at Newegg, look at other options. Beware some of the smaller options, maybe scams, especially as related to for sometimes, Amazon's sort of associates or some of the weird storefronts that pop up on Google shopping searches, although that seems to be less of an issue these days. But I was just shocked. Oh, and also some of the deals on phones on amazon.com are actually international phones that are gray market being sold in the US without warranty, which could be problematic if they don't work. Although Amazon's been pretty good about supporting some of the scummier products that some of their associates have been selling on there. But yeah, it's amazing.
Tablets too, especially Android tablets, the difference between roughly the same price for a one, two or three gigabytes of memory on roughly the same processor on a 10 inch tablet for approximately the same price, depending on where you bought it, what channel you bought it in. So keep an eye on the specs. Shop around, because the pricing is just ridiculous on a lot of these devices. So I just, I felt the need to get that off my chest, Sebastian.

**Sebastian Peak** (4:35)
It's also, not just like the different, we don't have to get into this, but just when I just search Android, Oh, I asked you. Amazon, there are over 4,000 results immediately. And if just looking at phones, I feel like I am getting older because I think about the days when if you were looking at phones, there were just a few phones. You could get an iPhone because there was only one. You picked which capacity you could afford. And then on the Android side, there were a few flagship phones. We're talking like 2009, 2010 When people had their own smartphone families, but it would kind of, the Android thing really didn't happen until, I think it was late 2008