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A Google mobile with an irresistible price and another with a gift, a robot with an arm cheaper than ever and more. Hunting Bargains

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Today is Bargain Hunting Friday, our particular weekly article in which we discuss which ones have been the best deals we have found in recent days. If you want to renew your mobile phone or are looking for a robot vacuum cleaner that will lighten your cleaning load at home, you may be interested in these offers. Google Pixel 9 by 499 eurosa very reasonable price for the previous generation Google mobile. LG OLED55C55LA by 899.10 euros upon registering in the store, a high-end television with an OLED screen. Xiaomi Poco F7 by 379.99 eurosa phone with a 6,500 mAh battery and 512 GB of storage. Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra by 649 eurosa robot vacuum cleaner that incorporates a very practical arm to clean corners. Google Pixel 9a by 549 eurosa smartphone that includes the brand’s headphones as a gift. Google Pixel 9 If you didn’t get to take advantage of the many offers we found during the Christmas season, we can still find very good prices on mobile phones like the Google Pixel 9whose price has fallen on MediaMarkt to 499 euros. It is ideal if you are looking for a small mobile phone (6.3 inches), but that will also be updated for many years—until 2031— and that incorporates a good photographic section. In addition, it is also very attractive both for its screen and its speakers. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED55C55LA By taking advantage of MediaMarkt’s LG Days campaign and registering in the store, you can access double discounts on the LG OLED55C55LAa high-end television that remains 899.10 euros. Its screen is 55 inches and has OLED technology, reaches a refresh rate of 120 Hz, incorporates HDMI ports and is compatible with Dolby Vision and Atmos. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Poco F7 If you are not convinced by the Google mobile and are looking for a model that has a good battery and a lot of storage, the Little F7 of Xiaomi has dropped on Amazon to 379.99 euros. Comes with a 90W charger, includes a 6,500 mAh batteryhas 512 GB of storage, its screen offers a 1.5K resolution and is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 processor. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra It won’t be especially cheap, but the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra Right now it has the best price we have seen on Amazon so far. By 649 euros (before 1,099 euros), we are talking about a robot vacuum cleaner that stands out above all for its robotic arm that allows you to clean corners. It is also interesting to mention that its suction power is 10,000 Pa, it has a LiDAR navigation system and comes with a good 5,200 mAh battery. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel 9a Maybe the Google Pixel 9a It is not on sale in the official store, but if you buy it right now you can get some headphones Google Pixel Buds 2a totally free. You can select the 128 GB configuration (549 euros) or the 256 GB (649 euros), and after doing so, the option to add headphones will appear. This mobile is also quite compact (6.3 inches), it will be updated for many years (2032) and its screen looks great outdoors. Google Pixel 9a (128GB) + Google Pixel Buds 2a The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Google, LG, Xiaomi, Roborock In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best robot vacuum cleaners in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models

Their models not only perform just as well but are much cheaper

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Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with the innovations that artificial intelligence is leaving us. However, it is also a good sign that there is voracious competition and that, even if we thought that companies like OpenAI or Google had every chance of completely dominating this sector, not all the fish has been sold yet. And what began as a race to create the most powerful models has become a battle to deliver the best performance at the lowest possible cost. And in this new competition, China leads. Change of third. For years, the conversation in AI focused solely on which model was more capable: who passed more benchmarks, who solved more complex problems, who generated better answers. But that phase is being relegated by another in which price is once again a determining factor in making decisions. This transition marks a turning point, since it is mainly Chinese startups that are demonstrating remarkable ability to produce powerful and extraordinarily economical models. Qwen leads the revolution. As Kai Williams highlights in the ‘Understanding AI’ newsletterAlibaba’s open model ecosystem, known as qwenhas become the most downloaded model family in the world, according to Hugging Face data analyzed by the ATOM Project. “Qwen alone is roughly matching the entire US ecosystem of open models today,” counted Nathan Lambert, researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, at the PyTorch conference. The Chinese company has achieved something that seemed difficult: create competitive models in practically all sizes, from small to 235,000 million parameters, offering options for any business need. Real business adoption. In addition to the technical figures of their models, the use cases also deserve special mention. In October, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, caused a bit of a stir stating that his company “relies a lot on Alibaba’s Qwen model” because it is fast, cheap and powerful enough. This statement is interesting because of the context, since we are talking about a top American company preferring to use an open Chinese model, something that is powerful enough to change the perception of the industry. Williams points out in the text that, in addition to Airbnb, there are also other companies that would prefer to adopt Qwen’s models, but for reasons of image or regulatory compliance, they cannot. Mainly because they are models from China. And that could be the great barrier for Qwen and the rest of the Chinese models that would make its adoption difficult. So Chinese startups have a big job ahead of them to try to change that perception in an increasingly complicated geopolitical context. Kimi K2 gave the surprise. If Qwen dominates through volume and versatility, Kimi K2 Thinking It stands out for being possibly the best open model in the world in terms of benchmark test scores. Just like share Williams in the newsletter, Artificial Analysis currently ranks it as the most powerful model not created by OpenAI, Google or Anthropic. DeepSeek and the domino effect. The launch of DeepSeek R1 in January was the catalyst that unleashed this wave. It arrived just four months after OpenAI announced your first reasoning model, o1but with a crucial difference: DeepSeek openly published the model parameters. The noise was such that even the DeepSeek app briefly surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded app in the iOS App Store, Nvidia shares fell almost 20% days later, and Chinese companies rushed to integrate the model into their products. Today we are still waiting for DeepSeek to speak again with its next deep reasoning model, about which not much is known yet. On the other side, putting out fires. The United States has not sat idly by. When it comes to open weight models, OpenAI launched theirs in AugustIBM published its Granite 4 models in October, and Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and the Allen Institute for AI have also introduced new ‘semi-open’ models this year. But none have reached the level of the main Chinese open models. Lambert, who has led efforts to advance a new generation of American open models, acknowledges that progress has been slow and the gap is widening. Everything indicates that 2026 will be decisive in determining the pace of adoption by companies and, above all, in determining the choice of model in an increasingly immense ocean. Cover image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio and Kimi AI In Xataka | NVIDIA begins to make moves with China: it is considering increasing production of the H200 in the face of an avalanche of orders, according to Reuters

Tesla urgently needs to make its electric cars cheaper. And their plan is to produce batteries in Germany

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Tesla will take the production of batteries for its European Tesla Model Y to Germany. This is what the German press agency DPA assures, information that has been echoed by German media such as Handelsblatt. “From battery cells to vehicles, everything must be produced in one place,” a spokesperson told DPA. For now, the statements remain somewhat cautious. The company talks about a three-digit investment (speaking of millions of euros) and that the decision will be confirmed “if the framework conditions are adjusted”. It must be taken into account that Elon Musk already assured in 2020 that they would raise “the largest battery factory in the world” in Germany which, of course, has not been carried out. Tesla’s intentions are to make the production of the Tesla Model Y as cheap as possible in order to face European competition. Right now, the company has to import its batteries to Germany from the United States, an environment that is also complicated in production due to the tariffs that the country has raised on components that arrive from abroad. If consolidated, Tesla aspires to produce batteries worth 8 GWh, a figure that is far from the 50 GWh it aspires to produce. Stellantis with CATL in Aragon. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? Between the bad and the worst If we take the month of October as a reference (the last analyzed by ACEA), Tesla has fallen almost 40% in sales in Europe in the first eight months of the year. The figure has left the company with 117,000 units sold compared to the 192,439 units it had registered last year in the same period of time. Obviously, its weight in the market has also fallen, to the point that it has been reduced by almost half. Right now, 1.3% of the cars purchased in Europe are Tesla vehicles when the company reached a market share of 2.2% and in 2024 it will make the Tesla Model Y the best-selling car in the world. Suzuki, Nissan or SAIC (owner of MG) have overtaken Tesla this year. However, 2025 is being a fateful year for the company. Especially in Europe where Elon Musk’s political positioning has squandered the brand image in countries like Germany and France. The company is facing new proposals from its rivals that are close in price and already offer a real alternative to Tesla cars. To solve it, and no smaller, more affordable versions on the horizonTesla has launched the Standard versions of its Model 3 and Model Y. They are versions with reduced equipment that try to reduce prices to keep both cars as attractive options. At the same time, yes, the price of the rest of the versions has increased to increase the gap and force the customer who does not want a shortened version to spend more money. The announcement also comes in a strange context in the European Union. media like Bloomberg They emphasize that the announcement has been made at a time when solutions are being sought to lower the limits of polluting emissions, but the truth is that European manufacturers They still need to sell many electric cars even if the measures proposed by the European Commission were approved. What is true is that Tesla is manufacturing its batteries in the United States but they have had to face an extra cost for them because the country has raised harsh tariffs on all components arriving beyond its borders. Although Tesla has been one of the least affected manufacturersthe extra cost appears to be high enough for the company to invest in Europe. And Tesla itself has pointed out that producing batteries on our continent continues to have such a high price that its profitability is doubted. Therefore, the only reason for Tesla to continue investing in Germany and not opt ​​for other European countries such as Spain (as it has done CATL with Stellantis or the Volkswagen Group) is because It already has part of the structure assembled in the German country and it would be a matter of increasing the productive land on their land. Furthermore, it is to be hoped that the European Union will further pave the way for attract investments in terms of battery production. Our continent is still far behind the United States but, especially from China and the most renowned attempts have been a total failure like Northvolt. It remains to be seen to what extent this movement allows Tesla to make its vehicles cheaper and continue to stand up to increasingly stronger European manufacturers. And some Chinese companies that hope that the negotiations between their country and the European Union to lift tariffs come to fruition. What Tesla is surely looking for are more stable policies than those of the United States, something complex in such a changing geopolitical context. Photo | In Xataka | Car manufacturers bend their arm to the European Union: we will have combustion engines in 2035

it’s if it’s cheaper

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In 2019 to a young researcher called François Chollet It occurred to him to create a benchmark for AI. The idea was strange to say the least, because in 2019 there was practically nothing with which to test that benchmark. Chollet actually anticipated the futurebecause there were still three years before ChatGPT appeared and the AI ​​fever began. Later, more and more synthetic benchmarks would arrive to measure the performance of AIs, but ARC-AGI was a different benchmark. While in many other benchmarks the model’s memorization capacity is crucial, here the AI’s abstract thinking and generalization capacity was tested. The problems proposed in ARC-AGI and its successor, ARC-AGI 2, consist largely of visual puzzles that are relatively easy to solve by humans, but which until now They were almost impossible for machines. In the last two years, however, we have seen how AI models were improving in abstract understanding and generalization, and little by little they solved more and more ARC-AGI puzzles. The problem? They spent a fortune to do it. And that’s where GPT-5.2 comes in. AI can solve almost everything. The question is how much does it cost to do it? Last year o3-preview managed to solve 87% of ARC-AGI 1. The milestone was so striking that even those responsible for the benchmark They published an announcement about it. To achieve this, yes, o3-preview executed 100 tasks with a total cost of $456,000: each one cost $4,560. Source: ARC-AGI Prize GPT-5.2, the latest version of OpenAI’s foundational AI model, was released yesterday. Its performance in other benchmarks was exceptional, but what really stands out is how it performed in ARC-AGI 1. Not because it managed to solve 90.5% of the problems with GPT-5.2 Pro (X-High), no, but because of how much each task cost. The figure: $11.65 per task. 390 times less that a year ago. In fact an even cheaper version, GPT-5.2 (X-High) achieved 86.2% at a cost of only $0.96 per task. Hallucinatory. ARC-AGI 2 remains a challenge for most models, but GPT-5.2 has taken another leap of exceptional quality. Source: ARC-AGI Prize. Chollet and his team knew that the AI ​​would end up passing their ARC-AGI test sooner or later, so in March 2025 They published ARC-AGI 2, the second version of their benchmark, to make it even more difficult for machines. This test is still a real challenge for most models, which until now had only solved 38% of the problems in the best of cases (Claude Opus 4.5). GPT-5.2 has managed to resolve almost 55%. It’s a colossal leap. And again, at a truly astonishing cost of $15.72 per task. The trend is clear: AI is not only getting better, but it is getting cheaper and cheaper. That’s good news for everyone, because it balances the already clear perception that scaling doesn’t work as much as it did in the past. The jumps in performance are not so striking – although these tests with ARC-AGI dismantle that argument – but the jumps in cost are. The AI ​​race seems to have reached a turning point. The real question is not whether AI will solve a problem, but how much it will cost to solve it. And the evolution of GPT-5.2 seems to clearly demonstrate something crucial: that AI is increasingly solving more things at a lower price. That is also something critical for an OpenAI that is in a delicate economic situation. Now that we’re more of a plateau in terms of performance gains, becoming cheaper and more efficient is key for the future of the company. And it seems that GPT-5.2, as well as a response to Gemini 3 Pro, is a clear step in that direction. In Xataka | There is a race in which Anthropic is winning over OpenAI: that of being profitable

While everything is getting more expensive than ever, a plague has given us something: cheaper pork

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A ghost haunts the markets throughout Spain and no, it is not a metaphor: MercoLleida, the main European pork market, is already registering drops of between 7 and 17% in the price of pork. It is the biggest disaster in 30 years. And the bad thing for the industry is that this is just the beginning. What is happening? We could say that the most obvious thing is that there are at least 50 wild boars killed in the Collserola mountain range. That is, without a doubt, an indicator of the intensity of the problem. African swine fever, despite not affecting humans, has mortality and morbidity levels close to 100%: “can kill all the pigs on a farm after a few days of fever, coughing and bleeding.” But, in reality, that does not explain the price drop. And then? The price of pork in Spain (and, by extension, in Europe) has collapsed due to something else: fear. Swine fever is a disease so terrible, so resistant and so difficult to eradicate that “the appearance of a single case of plague causes preventive blocking of pork exports”. There are more than 20 countries that, to begin with, they do not accept regionalization and, therefore, the veto of Spanish pork exports is en bloc and immediate. Among them are Japan or Mexico. And the truth is that the situation could be much worse if Spain and China they would not have signed the regionalization agreement just a few weeks ago. That’s the reason for the price drop: suddenly, there’s a lot of leftover pork. Europe’s farm. After all, even with ‘regionalization’ underway (the international blockade of Catalan pork, but not the rest) the tons of meat that have to find a buyer are enormous. With more than 8 million animals and nearly 3.2 billion euros in annual meat exports, Catalan farms They represent 52% of Spanish international sales. How is the price not going to collapse? And the worst, as I say, begins now. Not only because no one knows if the efforts to contain the epidemic they will be successfulbut because the impact on the industry can be devastating. It is enough to remember that Germany was the European country that produced the most pork until in 2020 an infected wild boar crossed the border with Poland and unleashed a huge national crisis that dismantled the sector. That is to say, the Spanish pig is in a critical situation; but at the consumption level it has no problem. First, because the plague does not affect humans; and second (and more important) because no Spanish farm has been affected because of the virus. And they are being reviewed one by one. A trompe l’oeil In the short term this effectively means lower prices than usual. And, in a context of general rise (with chicken in full escalation), it is good news for consumers. What we don’t know is what impact it will have in the medium and long term: if it is a temporary blip, the industry will have some margin. If not, we cannot rule out that prices will skyrocket in the future. The problem is that, as the days go by, the situation looks worse and worse. Image | Kwon Junho | Mossos In Xataka | In a country with almost as many pigs as people, the worst that can happen is that investment funds take over

The MacBook Air M4 had a good price on Black Friday, but now it’s cheaper: so you can get it on sale

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During Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday we could see very good offers on some Apple devices, but in the Cyber ​​Week At PcComponentes we have found an even better deal: the MacBook Air M4 go down to the 849 euros when adding it to cart. The price difference is not very high, but if we were planning to buy this computer we can get an additional discount of 10 euros compared to the price it had in recent weeks. A powerful and light laptop He MacBook Air M4 It is one of the devices with the best quality-price ratio within the Apple brand, especially with this offer. It is a good laptop—one of the best options, even—if what we are looking for is a computer solvent both to work and to study at home or away. {“videoId”:”x9fnll2″,”autoplay”:true,”title”:”macbook-air-m4″, “tag”:””, “duration”:”55″} And in addition to being powerful, it is a very light computer, since weighs only 1.24 kg. In relation to the latter, we are talking about the model that incorporates a 13.6-inch screen along with 16 GB of unified memory and 256 GB of internal storage. On the other hand, one of the key points is that this laptop comes with the M4 chipwhich offers good performance at practically all times. It is also worth noting that the computer comes with a battery that offers a theoretical autonomy of up to 18 hours video playback. In Xataka Consum sells a V16 beacon with which you can comply with the new DGT regulations starting January 1 You may also be interested Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images |Javier PenalvaApple In Xataka |MacBook Air M4 vs MackBook Air M3: these are the main differences between the two models In Xataka |MacBook Air Vs MacBook Pro: we explain which one to choose (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The MacBook Air M4 had a good price on Black Friday, but now it’s cheaper: so you can get it on sale was originally published in Xataka by Alberto Garcia .

While everything is going through the roof, a product is cheaper than ever in Spain: cocaine

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Those who are dedicated to probing the coca market have encountered a curious phenomenon: while the CPI rises and the prices of products such as the coffee either cocoacocaine undertakes the reverse path. Its cost seems to be in free fall. If a few years ago there was talk of more than 30,000 euros per kilogram of white powder, today there are sources that place it at barely 13,000a collapse that also coincides with an apparent increase of traffic and a high consumption. A difficult equation to solve. What do the figures say? It is not easy to talk about cocaine trafficking and the price. There is data and people dedicated to studying it, but for obvious reasons much of the information available is based on estimates. I shared the last one a few days ago The Catalan Newspaper in an extensive report in which he assures that right now a kilo of cocaine on the black market is around 13,000 euros. The same newspaper recalls that not so long ago a kilo brick was around 20,000 euros, but if you use the newspaper archive you will find information which show that a mere decade ago it was priced at between 27,000 and 29,000 euros in the Rías Baixas or even above 30,000 in Madrid and Valencia. What’s more, just a few months ago The Voice of Galicia assured that the official reference with which the Ministry of the Interior worked when calculating the value of the seized drugs set the value of a kilo at just over 30,500 euros. Is it something new? No. And that’s the curious thing. The media has been reporting on the drop in the price of coca for more than a year, sometimes with slight swings. Now does it The Newspaperbut a year ago I did it the Galician press and in 2023 it had the same message ABCwhich already at that time included the words of Fernando Iglesias, head of the Customs Surveillance Service in Galicia: “Its price has plummeted and that leads to a brutal offer.” “Cocaine prices have been devalued by almost half compared to just a few years ago, and that is a very clear indicator of the current abundance of this drug,” agreed the head of the Galician Foundation against Drug Trafficking. According to the data what he was driving at the time ABCthe kilo of Colombian coca that 20 years ago was paid for 30,000 euros had gone to price 17,000. Prices, however, always refer to a kilo. Curiously, this accelerated cheapening of drugs does not seem to have transferred to the street. Where the gram still costs the same than before: it remains around the 50 and 60 eurosdespite the fact that those who handle large quantities of drugs do so at a much lower cost. Are there more trends? Yes. Again they are based on estimates and indications, but they are just as interesting. The first tells us about the type of drug that is consumed. Not only has a kilo of coca become cheaper, it also seems to be purer. That at least is what emerges from the data from Energy Control, an agency dedicated to analyzing samples delivered by anonymous buyers. Their studies show that, on average, the samples that arrive have a purity that exceeds 70%. Other studies They have also noted an increase in purity. What about consumption? If there is a clear (and relevant) trend, it is the one that tells us about demand, which can be analyzed based on two key clues: studies on consumption and seizures of caches. In the first case (demand), the European Drug Report 2025 stands out, which reveals that Spain is the country with a highest percentage of population that has taken coca at some point in their life. The figure here reaches 13.3%, well above France and Denmark (9.4%). Do we have more clues? Yes. The European study, presented in June, slid that there are indications that consumption is increasing in the EU and even advised administrations to prepare for a rebound in demand for treatments. The percentage of people who admit to having tried the white powder also has been increasing over the last few years. The latest EADES survey (2024) indicates that 13% of individuals from 15 to 64 years old admit having used cocaine at some time, which marks the maximum in the historical series. In 2022 that indicator marked 11.7% and if we go to the early years of the 2000s the data was even lower. The Man Project Observatory also has noted its increase among users seeking to detoxify: in a matter of a decade it has gone from being the main addiction of 27% of users to extending its shadow to reach approximately 41%. What about seizures? They are another thermometer. At the end of the day, whether more or fewer caches are ‘hunted’ depends on the authorities’ aim, but also on the intensity of traffic. The Newspaper remember that the police only manage to seize a relatively low percentage of all the drugs that arrive at the ports. In the absence of more updated data, the 2024 Annual Drug Statistics published in July by the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) shows that last year Interior recorded an increase in cocaine seizures of 5.2%, which places them at approximately 123 tons. “There is more cocaine than ever”recognize police sources to The Newspaper about the situation that exists in cities like Barcelona. The same medium specifies that in 2023 and 2024 Customs Surveillance located just over 60 million tons of coca hidden in containers arriving by sea from South America. The reason for these data? One possibility is a change in routes that reduces the volume traveled through Holland and Belgium and places Spain as a gateway to Europe. What about the prices? If demand does not seem to be suffering… Why are prices falling, at least in the channels where kilos are moved (another … Read more

Getting a Nintendo Switch 2 or a PlayStation 5 Pro is much cheaper with 11.11 on AliExpress

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Although there are still many weeks until Christmas, many of us choose the month of November to buy gifts early. Here come great promos like AliExpress 11.11one of the best of the year to buy devices of all kinds. This year’s is especially interesting to buy a new consolethanks to great deals that we can reduce even more with some discount coupons: Discount minimum purchase coupon 3 euros 15 euros XATAKAES03 5 euros 29 euros XATAKAES05 12 euros 69 euros XATAKAES12 20 euros 129 euros XATAKAES20 40 euros 249 euros XATAKAES40 60 euros 369 euros XATAKAES60 75 euros 469 euros XATAKAES75 85 euros 549 euros XATAKAES03ES85 It is true that this AliExpress promo will be available until November 19, but possibly the best deals will not last until then. To make your work a little easier, we leave you below a selection of some consoles that right now have a brutal price: nintendo switch 2 by 405.02 euros with the coupon ESAE75, the new Nintendo console with ‘Mario Kart World’ and ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. PlayStation 5 Pro by 747.40 euros with the coupon ESAE85, the best version of the console in a pack with ‘EA Sports FC 26’. Nintendo Switch OLED by 182.94 euros with the coupon XATAKAES20, a console that continues to be a great purchase in 2025. ASUS ROG Ally X by 718.08 euros with the coupon ESAE85, a powerful and very versatile portable console. Nintendo Switch Lite by 109.53 euros with the ESAE20 coupon, a super economical console that can still offer a lot. nintendo switch 2 AliExpress 11.11 is a great time to get one nintendo switch 2 We have been seeing how the console has been starring in different offers since it was available, although none as juicy as this one: it comes out for 405.02 euros with the coupon ESAE75 (and using PayPal as a payment method) and comes with two great games such as ‘Mario Kart World’ and ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. The new Nintendo console comes with important improvements and more power, being capable of moving games at 4K when we have it in its dock. If we prefer, we always have the option of playing their entire catalog in portable mode, which gives a lot of versatility to the console. In addition, we will have two very good titles to premiere it. Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World + Cyberpunk 2077 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links PlayStation 5 Pro As an alternative to the previous one, it is also a good time to get a PlayStation 5 Pro. This is another of the consoles that we can also find at a good price in this new AliExpress promo: we have it available for 747.40 euros with the coupon ESAE85 and using PayPal as a payment method. In addition, it comes in a pack with ‘EA Sports FC 26’. This new version of the Sony console offers improvements that will allow us to enjoy compatible video games with better quality and performance. It has 2 TB of storagewhich is a plus when installing games. It is true that it comes without a disc reader, but we can buy it separately later and attach it without problems in a couple of minutes. PlayStation 5 Pro + EA Sports FC 26 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Nintendo Switch OLED We may prioritize spending as little as possible when getting a new console. If that is our case, then it is possible that the Nintendo Switch OLED, the best version of the previous generation of Nintendo, fits us very well. Although it already has a successor, at this price it is very worth it: it costs 182.94 euros with the coupon XATAKAES20. If we take into account Nintendo’s large catalog of exclusive games, this version of the console is a great option. Its OLED screen stands out above allone that represents a significant leap in quality with the base version and that significantly improves the experience when using its portable game. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Asus ROG Ally X Portable consoles have gained another dimension in recent years. The path was paved by Steam Deck, but now there are alternatives that offer different and even significantly more powerful experiences. That is the case of this Asus ROG Allywhich we can get right now for 718.08 euros with the coupon ESAE85 and paying with PayPal. This console offers very good performance even with the most demanding titles thanks to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme it uses. Besides, It has 1 TB of storage so we can install a good part of our game catalog. It has a 7-inch screen with 120 Hz and 1080p resolution, as well as a good battery that also charges in a breeze with its 100 W fast charge. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Nintendo Switch Lite We close this selection of consoles on offer with the cheapest of all, although that does not mean we should lose sight of it. This is Nintendo Switch Lite, a very interesting device for those who only intend to play Nintendo video games in portable mode. comes out for 109.53 euros with the coupon ESAE20. For just over 100 euros, we can have with us a portable console that still has power left for a while. Taking into account how rich Nintendo’s catalog of games is (both exclusive and third-party titles), it is a very interesting device for play without complications and without spending too much. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Xataka, Nintendo, Sony, Asus In Xataka | Best consoles and other retro hardware replicas for nostalgic gamers: which one to buy and recommended models In Xataka | The best smartwatches: their analyzes and videos are … Read more

“it’s cheaper than a residence”

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Marty and Jessica Ansen have been married for 57 years and love traveling by cruise, although due to work and family they did not do it as much as they would have liked. In June 2022 they decided to take a radical turn to your lifestyle and they boarded the Coral Princess cruise ship for the first time in Brisbane, Australia. That moment marked a journey across the seven seas that has not yet ended. Since then they have traveled on some 111 cruises, making these enormous ships your new floating home, with confirmed reservations until September 2027. According to his family, traveling the world aboard a cruise is cheaper than a residence …and much more fun. On endless vacations As the cruise company Princess Cruises in Australia shared in your Instagram profileMarty and Jessica Ansen have been on cruises for 2,335 days of their lives, on 111 voyages, and they already have 33 more cruises booked until 2027. This routine of non-stop sailing has allowed them to enjoy trips around the world, with access to unlimited food, high-level entertainment and a community atmosphere on board where they have even made friends among the crew and other passengers. On board, the couple combines the adventure of waking up every day in a different port with a comfortable life, since the cruise includes cleaning services and food included, which saves them from many of the responsibilities of life on land. “Now we no longer know how to wash the dishes or make our beds because we haven’t done that in a long time. So now we have to stay on board to survive,” Marty joked in an interview for Australian television. Plus, they can stay connected with their family. The couple of cruise passengers take advantage of the scales that cruise ships do in different parts of Australia to visit their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Plus, as Ren van Rooyen, hotel manager aboard the Coral Princess, said, Marty and Jessica are “kind of like local celebrities,” so it’s easy for them to make friends during their travels. Tap on the photo to go to the original message How the couple told in a report of The TelegraphThey also take advantage of these stops to visit friends from all over the world that they have made during their travels. “When our ship visits other countries, we meet up with family and friends we have met at sea in places like Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, Alaska and New Zealand,” Marty told the British newspaper. Living aboard a cruise ship The most common thing is to imagine cruise ships as a temporary place to stay during a vacation. However, just as there are people who live permanently in hotels, there are also those who live all year round. on board cruises. That is the case of Marty and Jessica who, according to their children and grandchildren, find it cheaper to live on board the cruise than in a nursing home. According to their statements, the budget includes everything: from unlimited food to a bed made daily. Furthermore, it includes access to activities and medical services on board, which is an important advantage for elderly people. To stay healthy and active, retirees have created a simple but effective daily routine that includes an hour of table tennis together each morning. This daily exercise contributes to their physical and mental well-being, while they enjoy the changing landscape and the multiple services that the cruise offers. Although this way of life has multiple advantages, not everything is perfect for the couple. A big drawback is the constant changing of time zones while traveling around the world, which makes it difficult for them to keep clear control of elapsed time and can lead to some disorientation. Additionally, Marty jokingly confessed that he misses “being able to drive wherever I wanted to go whenever I wanted,” a limitation typical of life in the sea. However, these small setbacks are considered minor details compared to the experience of living aboard a cruise ship and enjoying a unique lifestyle that for them is more economical and satisfying than a traditional nursing home. In Xataka | A millionaire has been living from cruise to cruise for 25 years: his biggest problem has not been money, but balance Image | Princess Cruises

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