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A new Kindle arrives, the Mac Mini M4 cheaper than ever, a very lowered TV Top and more, hunting bargains

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The month of August loaded with offers has begun In a good assortment of devices. If you want to buy a good computer, with the options that we will mention in this list you can choose between Windows and Mac, there is also a good TV that has just lowered price, Sennheiser top headphones and much more. 55C7K TCL by 699 eurosa TV with Google TV that incorporates speakers with Bang & Olufsen audio. Mac Mini M4 by 574 eurosnew historical discount on the computer with the best quality-price ratio of Apple. LG Gram (16Z90TL) by 992.07 eurosan ultralight computer that comes with an artificial intelligence gift and functions. Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless by 195.41 eurosBluetooth headphones with noise and autonomy cancellation of up to 60 hours. Kindle Colorsooft by 269.99 eurosan ereader with color screen that has just been released on Amazon. 55C7K TCL TCL is a brand of televisions that at least we must take into account, since its models usually offer a very good value for money, something more noticeable when we find them from offer. The 55C7K TCL It is a smart TV that can be found right now by 699 euros In El Corte Inglés, and much eye because for this price we talk about a fairly complete TV. First, it incorporates a 55-inch QD-mini panel that offers a 144 Hz soda rate and compatibility with compatibility with compatibility with HDR10+HDR Premium 2600 and DOLBY VISION IQ. In addition, their speakers offer audio by Bang & Olufsen And they are compatible with Dolby Atmosthe operating system is Google TV. * Some price may have changed from the last review Mac Mini M4 He Mac Mini M4 It is the computer with the best value for money and are not few times that we have been able to find it from the supply at the end of last year. It is ideal for those looking for a ideal device to study or workthat is powerful, small and very solvent. After the numerous offers of these months, it is now 574 eurosits minimum historical price. A few months ago I bought this same Apple computer to work and I liked it more than I expected: It does nothing noise (not even in summer)its M4 chip offers excellent performance, it is very small and comes with artificial intelligence functions through Apple Intelligence. Mac Mini M4 (16 GB, 256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review LG Gram (16Z90TL) On the other hand, if you are more of Windows and you want or are looking for a good computer that is also ideal to study or work, especially away from home, LG has demolished the price of its LG Gram (16Z90TL) In the official store, going from the 2,049 euros of its official price to the 992.07 euros. He LG Gram It is a laptop Ultraligero (1.2 kilos) which is accompanied by a 16 -inch IPS screen along with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor offers a WQXGA resolutionit has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its speakers are compatible with Dolby Atmos and comes with Windows 11 Home Preinstssalado. Although theoretically its battery reaches 28.5 hours of autonomy, in practice that figure is very different (although also good), since It usually is around seven or eight hours. * Some price may have changed from the last review Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless Beyond Sony’s headphones, we can find very interesting proposals in other brands (sometimes cheaper). The Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless They have been in the market for a while, but for 195.41 euros They now cost Amazon the truth is that they are an excellent purchase option. The Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless They are headband headphones that promise a very good comfort and excellent audio quality. They come with active cancellation of adaptive noise, can be folded and Its battery promises an autonomy of up to 60 hours of use. In addition, it supports fast charging and in just 10 minutes of load can offer up to six hours of use. Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless * Some price may have changed from the last review Kindle Colorsooft At the end of last year, Amazon renewed its electronic book readers (EREADER)first launching a color screen model: the Kindle Colorsooft Signature Edition. Now, in the same way that occurs between Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, Amazon has launched a new ereader without the name “Signature Edition”: the Kindle Colorsooftwhose price is 269.99 euros. The Kindle Colorsooft dispenses with some characteristics that we do see in the Kindle Colorsooft Paperwhite Signature Editionsuch as wireless load, automatic regulation for frontal light or 32 GB of storage, since the new ereader comes with 16 GB (it is still a good figure). In return, with the purchase of the Kindle Colorsooft, Amazon gives three months of Kindle Unlimited. However, the new ereader maintains some characteristics of Signature Edition, as is the case with its excellent seven -inch color screena good performance when passing the pages and navigating the library or adjustment menu, resistance to water against splashes or autonomy of eight weeks. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | TCL, Apple, LG, Sennheiser, Amazon In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

Buying a powerful gaming laptop today can get much cheaper. New offer in this MSI with RTX 5070 ti

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Today the good ends. Mediamarkt’s website ends in less than 24 hours (on July 24 at 09:00 hours) in style with the latest discounts, this time in MSI products. We have already talked about Huge MSI monitorand now it’s the turn of MSI VECTOR 16a very powerful gaming laptop that had never been so cheap in the store: by 1,698.30 euros By adding it to the store cart instead of the usual 2,399 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A powerful gaming computer with a discount The MSI Vector 16 that has a Mediamarkt offer stands out first for the price, since it had never had it so cheap (its biggest discount to date left it at 1,998 euros). But also does it because it is a gaming laptop With one Very top configuration to play video games. This gaming computer is quite large by having a 16 -inch IPS screen. Its panel offers a QHD+ resolution (2,560 x 1,600 pixels) and an excellent 240 Hz refreshment rate. In addition, internally the processor mounts Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX. To this we must add that it comes along with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSDfor what as a whole you can with any game at high quality to guarantee a good FPS rate. On the other hand, we cannot forget that the laptop comes with a graphics RTX 5070 TI. Of course, what does not include is operating system, so it does not come with Windows 11 Home. You may also be interested in these peripherals Razer Basilisk V3 x Hyperspeed – Mouse da Gioco Wireless Personalizzabile (Ergonomic form with 9 Controlli Customizabili, Hyperspeed Wireless, Bluetooth, Advancement Sensore 5g 18K) Nero * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G G435 Lightspeed wireless headphones for gaming, light, integrated microphone, 18 -hour battery, compatible with Dolby Atmos, Bluetooth, PC, PS4, PS5, Mobile, Nintendo Switch – Black * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | MSI In Xataka | Best Ultrabooks: Which buy and 13 Light Portables Recommended from 300 to 2500 euros In Xataka | Better laptops in quality price: which to buy based on the use and nine recommended models

The new Samsung are three folding phones. Your official store already has them cheaper and even with a gift cover

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A new July that has arrived with a new samsung’s unpacked. The South Korean firm chosen this month to present Its three new folding phonesthree very different options that allow us to have several options according to our needs, preferences or budget. Yes indeed: It is in the official store Where cheaper is cheaper to buy them. We tell you more about your launch promotion. The best prices for these folding we have them in the official store No matter what new folding of the three that we announced, since in the official store it is where we will have the best purchase conditions. Everything starts with Fold your storagewhich will allow us to take a memory option of these devices and pay the price of the immediately lower option. Said more easily: If we buy a 512 GB model we will pay the 256 GB model price. To this, we must add the delivery and premiere program of Samsung. Thanks to this, we can deliver our old device and save to the fullest in the purchase, specifically up to 800 euros discount. In addition, we will obtain an additional discount if we use Bizum as a payment method (50 euros for the Z FLIP7 and 100 euros for the Z FOLD7). If, in addition, we make the purchase from the official Samsung app, we will get an additional discount of 10%. We will also have payment facilities, since the company allows to finance purchases up to 36 months. And be careful, because the exclusive colors of the official store also come with a gift cover and we can save up to 100 euros in the new Galaxy Watch8 and Watch Ultra if we make the joint purchase. Samsung launches a new galaxy z flip much more affordable Although traditionally the Korean company has launched two folding in each generation, this time we have three options. That is because, for the first time, Samsung has opted to launch a cheaper version of one of them: the Galaxy Z Flip XX. This device is ideal for anyone who seeks Samsung’s folding experience, But at a much more tight price. Despite its reduced price, it has many strengths. Its exterior screen, for example, is 3.4 inches, just like the one that mounted The galaxy z flip6. Besides, comes with an exyn 2400 insideprocessor accompanied by 8 GB of RAM and 256 or 512 GB of storage according to which we choose. All without forgetting its 4,000 mAh battery and its double camera system. If we like this type of fold, but we want the best option that Samsung has right now, then perhaps the galaxy z Flip7 fits more. This new device premieres The largest exterior screen of a Samsung flip to dateoccupying the entire outer surface of the device on this occasion (except for the cameras, of course). And eye: because it also has a 120 Hz soda rate. To this we must add that there is a step above the previous model at several points, as in its processor (exyn 2500 in this case), in RAM (12 GB) and even in the battery (which is 4,300 mAh). Besides, It is also finer than the previous modelwhich makes it easier to carry it in your pocket even when we have it folded. Now to talk about Samsung’s launch promotion. The device reaches stores from 1,209 euros in its 256 GB version, but thanks to bending your storage We can take the 512 GB version at this price. At that price, we can apply a discount of 50 euros to pay with Bizum and the additional 10% of the app. All this leaves it in 1043.10 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review The new Galaxy Z Fold7 is the best folding of the company to date In addition to the previous two, we will also be able to put the glove to the new Galaxy Z FOLD7, a device that exceeds in many ways to the previous z fold6. It is the finest and most light folding that Samsung has manufactured to date, both when we carry it closed and open. In fact, precisely one of the things that most attracts attention is its thickness, which is just 8.9 millimeters closedpractically as a conventional phone. The two screens grow with respect to the previous model, reaching the interior at 8 inches. Besides, It is also the most powerful folding to date (Thanks to its Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy) and also the one with the best cameras, being its main sensor of 200 megapixels. Not only that, but it is also more resistant thanks to its Gorilla Glass Victus 2 and Armor aluminium. A round device and the best folding work of the company to date. How much can this new folding come out? Its launch price for the 256 GB version is 2,109 euros, but now we can take the 512 GB version at this price. If we use bizum to pay we will take A direct discount of 100 euros To which, in fact, we can also add the 10% discount by making the purchase from the app. All this leaves us at a price 1,808.10 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Samsung In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here

A chip for the much cheaper than its H20 prohibited by the US

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In early May we tell you that Nvidia engineers were working on the development of A trimmed review of your GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) H20 with the purpose of Place it on the Chinese market. To understand what is happening the first thing we should keep in mind is that during the last fiscal year, which expired on January 26, 2025, China represented approximately 13% of total income of the company led by Jensen Huang with a figure of about 17,000 million dollars. In practice, the country governed by Xi Jinping is the third best client of this company only behind the US and Taiwan. However, the sanctions to China that are deploying the US government threatens Nvidia’s survival in this Asian country. Currently this company cannot sell its chips to its Chinese clients for the most advanced. And in the middle of last April the US Department of Commerce imposed new export restrictions on China from The H20 GPU of Nvidia. Nvidia is going to assault China with a chip for the much cheaper than its H20 The reception they have given to the GPU H20 The Chinese clients of Nvidia has been very good despite the fact that the capabilities of this chip are clearly lower than those of the other proposals for the this company. In fact, initially the Department of Commerce allowed its sale in China because this integrated circuit met the restrictions it had imposed. And despite its limitations its sales in China 50% quarter to quarter have grown Since he arrived in this market in mid -2024. TSMC will not use its advanced cowos packaging in the manufacture of this chip. It is one of the reasons why its price is restrained Anyway, this time of bonanza is over. The restrictions of the Department of Commerce in practice prevent Nvidia Deliver the H20 GPU to its Chinese clientsbut This company does not give up. And is that, according to Reutersin June the Taiwanese manufacturer of TSMC semiconductors, the largest on the planet, will begin the manufacture of a new GPU for NVIDIA with the latest Blackwell microarchitecture. Presumably this is the chip with which Nvidia will aspire to maintain its domain in the Chinese market. However, before being able to send these GPU to China, the company led by Jensen Huang will have to receive the approval of the US Department of Commerce. What we know at the moment is that this chip for AI will be less capable than the H20 GPU, as is logical, and also that its price will move between $ 6,500 and $ 8,000. For domestic users it is a lot of money, but in the field of professional GPUs for AI it is a moderate price. In fact, the GPU H20 Cuesta Between 10,000 and $ 12,000so it is evident that Nvidia wants to protect the competitiveness of this chip to prevent Huawei, Moore Threads and other Chinese companies from snatching a juicy portion of this market. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

He claims to have a training method for his AI 88% cheaper

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The Chinese company High-Flyer broke into the market in the market of the artificial intelligence (AI) At the end of last January. Deepseek, his proposal, has made its way among its competitors thanks to its open nature and its benefitsbut the authentic debate has revolved for several weeks Around the cost of training your models. And it is that according to its creators they were barely spent 5.6 million dollars In this process. Three and a half months later this figure is still unbelievable, so it is reasonable to contemplate it with distrust. Anyway, Deepseek has put on the table the possibility of facing the training of the new models of investing much less money than the one spent by US companies OpenAi, Google or Anthropic in the tuning of theirs. Now it is the Chinese technological giant Alibaba who seems to be following The same path that has already traveled Depseek. And it is that it claims to have developed a AI models training system that reduces the cost almost 90%, which presumably will have a positive impact on AI search capabilities. Alibaba’s jewel is called Zerostoch The strategy that Alibaba engineers have devised to reduce the cost of training their AI models is ingenious. And instead of interacting with real search engines during this process, Zerostoch, which is what is called its technology, improves search capabilities carrying out simulations. To understand why this approach is much cheaper, we need to keep in mind that the costs associated with the redirection of commercial search engines are usually high. Alibaba has put a model that behaves as a search engine that is capable of training other AI models According to Alibaba Send 64,000 consultations to the Google search engine through an API has an approximate cost of $ 586.70, while generating the appropriate responses for training by means of an AI model of 14,000 million parameters has an approximate cost of 70.80 dollars, which represents an 88% cheaper. In practice, what Alibaba engineers seem to have achieved is to tune a model that behaves as a search engine that is capable of training other AI models so that they are able to solve consultations. This scenario has a very evident advantage: training no longer requires interaction with external search infrastructures. Alibaba, as we all know, is a gigantic company, but from now on this strategy can be used by much smaller companies to train their own AI models without the need to face a great investment in this process. In addition, presumably this technology will improve both the search capabilities of AI models and the ability with which they carry out the reasoning processes. At the moment Alibaba has used Zerostoch to improve the capabilities of his Quark model, which for just three days has been capable, always according to its creators, to combine the internet search and advanced reasoning capabilities to resolve inference and deliver precise responses to complex consultations. Image | Markus Spiske More information | SCMP In Xataka | Samsung is preparing to give TSMC a bars where it hurts most: the manufacture of the chips for ia

diurnal solar surpluses, night spikes … and increasingly cheaper batteries

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For years, conversation about the future of Spanish electricity has been reduced to fear of two words: “China photovoltaic”. Panels cheap and reasonably efficient. But the final weapon is not arriving in containers from Shanghai, but increasingly frequently in the van of a neighborhood installer: lithium batteries packs that allow reducing the dependence of the conventional electricity grid. Cut the cable. Or, at least, loosen it. The cheaper that changes the rules Past, present and future of the storage price: 2015: Storing a kilowatt-Hora cost more than 1,100 dollars/kWh. 2024: according to Bloombergnefthe average price of the pack was at 115 dollars/kWh (about 105 euros/kWh), after a 20% drop in the last year. 2026-2027: By then, the same consultant estimates that the psychological bar of the 100 dollars/kWh will be broken. With these prices, Storing domestic energy costs less than the term valley of the PVPC ratewhich now ranges between 0.11 and approximately 0.13 euros/kWh. That makes the battery the natural complement of any roof with panels and a direct enemy of the demand managed by the distributors. To understand the impact of this cheaper on the accounts of the companies in the sector, you have to understand how they earn money. Iberdrola. Its 2024 ebitda, According to its annual resultsit was almost 17,000 million euros, broken down like this: Networks: 6,423 million euros. 38% of the total. Generation and customers: 10,425 million euros. 62%. 52% of Iberdrola’s investment goes to networks, its most stable and regulated segment. Endesa. Its 2024 Ebitda reached 5,300 million euros, with a similar distribution: Electric distribution: 1,750 million (approximately 33%). The rest comes mainly from generation and marketing. Naturgy. With an Ebitda of 5,400 million in 2024: ELECTRIC NETWORKS AND GAS: They represent approximately 45% of the business. The company has increased its investment in this segment by 15% compared to the previous year. For all these companies, Each kilowatt-hora that does not circulate through its networks directly impacts its profitability. Today, the threat is hypothetical, but tomorrow it will be arithmetic. Battery and panel: the combo that takes off According to data from Auto: In 2021, only 2% of residential facilities included battery. In 2024 that figure reached 71%. And they are not just coastal chalets, hybrid kits reach peripheral single -family and even communities of pioneering neighbors. With subsidies and 2.0TD rateamortization drops between 6 and 8 years, and energy self -sufficiency touches 80% in optimal conditions. Electric grid as electron pipe begins to stagger. And not only because of the fall in the demand managed, but because the flow is reversed. In the moments of sun and low demand, thousands of homes are beginning to return energy to the network or simply not need it. For a company that invests billions in transport and distribution infrastructures, that is a problem. But the regulatory framework is starting to move. And your address is not clear. The CNMC has on the table The new toll methodology for the period 2026–2031. Among the Options in consultation: Move part of the fixed costs of the network at the end of power, and begin to remunerate flexibility services, such as storage or coordinated discharge of domestic batteries. They are two changes with opposite consequences: The first penalizes the self -consumer with drums, although he barely consumes. The second rewards it, if your battery helps to balance the network at critical moments. Everything will depend on how normative design is related. And who is heard more. But for now, the government Last the arrival of aid for energy storage through 700 million Feder funds. This transformation is not an isolated case. Several European and American electricity have understood the message before the Spanish. And they have begun to move. Nextera has already hired 81 GW from Solar With storage for 2027, with a good part behind the accountant. That is, in homes. Enel x He has launched virtual power plants pilots (VPPS) In Italy and agreements to display regulated batteries. EDF He is exploring flexibility markets in the United Kingdom and France. In Spain, Endesa has timidly begun to explore this land with its project FlexiCy In Malaga. The background logic is clear: The network will remain necessary, but less as a unidirectional route and more as a smart platform for exchange and balance. And the interesting thing It is not so much the exact point in which we are, but the slope of the curve. According to The International Energy Agencyto meet the objectives set in COP28, world storage capacity It must be multiplied by six before 2030. Of which 1,200 GW must come from batteries. Spain, with its diurnal solar surpluses and nocturnal peaks of consumption, is one of the most fertile land in Europe for that transition. Despite the fear of these years to the threat that came by boat – Chinese plates – the real threat is the one that arrives in a van. In lithium, phosphate and iron packages that allow each home to keep their own energy. In that context, The network business is focused on a transformation: to bill kilowatts to offer guarantees of energy continuity. And there is the key: whoever adapts to the new model will not only resist better. You can also lead it. In Xataka | We have second to second the data on the great blackout in Spain. They complicate everything even more Outstanding image | EcoFlow

NASA will cancel the SLS rocket and look for a cheaper alternative to colonize the moon and Mars

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It was seen comingbut the impact is not less. The Trump administration has presented its budget proposal for fiscal year 2026. And in regards to NASA, it is a true earthquake. Goodbye to SLS. The huge and very expensive lunar rocket SLS of the NASA, whose development has led the Boeing spatial division for 14 years, will be removed after the Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027. There will be no block 1B version, and therefore the ML-2 mobile launch tower (whose budget had been sentenced) will be presumably without using. Justification is economical. The own Budget document Openly criticizes the SLS, noting that it has a cost of 4,000 million dollars per launch and has exceeded its budget by 140%. Demolish figures that not only They have sentenced the heir to the legacy Apollo and space transforders, but to all NASA’s lunar architecture. Goodbye to Orion and Lunar Gateway. Designed to launch aboard the SLS, the Lockheed Martin’s space capsule now has the same expiration date: it will be removed after taking astronauts to the lunar orbit in the Artemis II and Artemis III missions. NASA will choose a more modern and affordable architecture for Artemis IV onwards. But the cuts do not stop here. The Lunar Gateway Space Station, a key international project in the now truncated plans of the Artemis program, is also canceled. This leaves NASA’s international partners in a very delicate position that participated in the station: the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan (Jaxa), Canada (CSA) and United Arab Emirates. ESA, which supplies the European Ship Module Orion and develops The I-Hab and Esprit modules of Lunar Gatewaysee how your investment and astronaut places (including a seat to travel for the first time to the lunar surface) are in the air. As Daniel Marín points out in Eurekathe “ugly” to the partners is considerable. Especially to Europe. The bet: commercial ships and Mars. According to a NASA statement, the objective of these cuts is “to accelerate human exploration to the moon and Mars with a tax portfolio.” In other words, the blank checks for usual partners of the space agency are over. The White House wants to “return to the moon before China and put an American on Mars.” The budget allocates more than 7,000 million dollars to lunar exploration, but focused on “next generation commercial systems, more profitable” to replace the SLS/ORion architecture. Starship/HLS of Spacex and New Glenn/Blue Moon of Blue Origin have, as is logical, many ballots. The budget also introduces an investment of 1,000 million dollars to start a program focused on Mars. Although the details are scarce, it is taken for granted that will also pivot the SLS to the Spacex Starship, following Elon Musk’s vision. However, it is a very long -term bet, with little chances of seeing fruits before the current presidential mandate ends. Less science, less flights to ISS. The budget is especially devastating for NASA’s Space Science Division, which suffers a cut of 2,265 million dollars. The Mars Sample Return mission is explicitly canceled to recover the Martian soil samples from Rover Perseverance, arguing that the same objective will be achieved with future manned missions. Emblematic projects such as the new Nancy Grace Roman (which is almost finished), the historic Hubble space telescope and even, According to Eric Berger of Ars TechnicaNASA’s participation in the Rosalind Franklin European mission. The International Space Station, although it will remain operational until 2030, is not fought. NASA will reduce the size of the American crew and on-board research (-508 million budget), decreasing “significantly” loading and crew flights, gradually leaving the low terrestrial orbit in the hands of commercial stations (and China). A cycle change. While the proposal has yet to go through Congress, the Republican majority makes it difficult to take great modifications, although programs such as SLS/ORION have important support within the giant lobby as Boeing. The big question is whether this bet will work to win the space race against China. The abrupt cancellation of the SLS could leave a vacuum that China would take the opportunity to establish a sustained lunar presence before commercial alternatives are ready. And it is that getting to the Moon is not easy for private companies, as the failed launches of the NASA Clps program have demonstrated. Needless to say how risky it is to bet on an accelerated arrival to Mars. Image | POT In Xataka | China is getting closer to overcoming NASA in its Martian mission. And just invited other countries to join

If the question is if the cars were “cheaper” regarding your salary in 1975 than now, we have made accounts

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It is no secret. Cars have risen in the last years. Cars, in fact, have risen a lot of price in recent years. It is an issue that we analyze in Xataka Two years ago and although the semiconductor crisis passed, the cost of getting a car has not lowered much. The problem even hit second -hand cars that too They shot their prices. It is a problem that was generalized internationally since the lack of components led companies such as Ford to have tens of thousands of vehicles due to the lack of some small component. Today the situation has been normalized. No longer is needed wait for more than a year To receive a car or there are people paying overpreds for Skip the waiting list of a Tesla. In fact, to the company It is costing to place according to what cars. But there is something that has not changed so much. The price of cars is still high. Very high. How high? Let’s compare it with a few years ago. A salary year Do we take a look at what the situation was half a century ago? Our partners L’Automobile They have echoed a study in which it was claimed that buying a Citroën 2CV in 1975 was much more complicated than getting a Citroën C3 in 2025. The French media, however, stated that the study presented them with any doubt because it was not taken into account, for example, the average cost of the house, one of the problems that, as in Spainhit France. Are we in Spain in the same situation? In our case, we are going to take official minimum salary data and vehicle prices as a departure. Thus, consulting the data reflected by the BOE of 1975, the minimum wage was at 8,400 pesetas. Monthly that, after the year, added 117,600 pesetas at the end of the year with 14 payments. That year, according to data collected in Bull skinspecialized in the Spanish classics, a Citroën 2CV-6 cost 123,088 pesetas. In January 1974, in Highway They explained The idiosyncrasy of this version in the following terms: “Without entering the discussion about whether the 2 hp must be considered as a car or simply as a distant cousin, the truth is that we find an inescapable reality: it is the cheapest vehicle on the market, and according to legend, also the cheapest consumption,” With the data in his hand, a Spaniard who charged the minimum wage needed to work 14.65 payments to pay the car. That is, just over the salary won in a whole year to acquire “the cheapest vehicle on the market.” Today, Citroën’s cheapest car is C3. Its price is 15,740 euros, According to the vehicle configurator. In 2025, the minimum interprofessional salary is 16,576 euros with the last climb of the SMI. Taking this into account, to pay a Citroën C3, a worker needs 13.29 payments. That is to say, Less days worked than 50 years ago For a vehicle of similar characteristics. And if we go to the cheapest car on the market, as collected in the search engine of Km77which have a huge database with the current prices of market cars, the most basic dacia A price of 13,940 euros It is the cheapest car on the market. In this case, a worker needs to dedicate 11.77 payments. That is, almost twelve payments, less than a year. They are data that compare prices “to the gross” since the cost of the purchase or housing car is not taken into account. Yes we know that in 1975, The best -selling car in Spain was the Seat 127. A car that at that time cost 166,290 pesetas. Or, what is the same, 19.79 payments of a Spaniard with minimum wage. The data is not less since it means that the Spanish buyer acquired A car 135% more expensive than the cheapest model on the market. In 2024, however, The most purchased car was … Dacia Sandero with 32,994 units. A car that put more than 10,000 units to Toyota Corolla, second classified. This gives us an idea of ​​the type of car to which a Spanish buyer aspires in 2025. To all of the above we must add, as we said, factors such as the price of housing. In this case, we have not found studies that aim at the cost of acquiring it in 1975 but in Xataka Yes we have studied evolution and the cost of the same over the years. For sample, housing prices are already still expensive as in the bubble years. Even if it is a fact deformed by inflation, The study which we echoed does show that an apartment is now 3.5 times more expensive than in 1980, when the study began. Another sample, in Bankinter They point out that a family needed the total income of 2.9 years to pay an apartment in 1987, while in 2023 this figure was between 7.3 and 7.5 years. Data that explain why if a car demands more or less the same amount of effort, now the most purchased car in Spain is a cheaper than 50 years ago. Photo | Citroën and Dacia In Xataka | Spain continues to prefer the cheap car, not the electric: the registration data leave a bittersweet taste for the industry

Can you get cheaper on Amazon

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Mediamarkt has several active campaigns, but the “-15% only app“It is one of the most interesting. It ends tomorrow, April 23 at 09:00 hours and applies even to products that are offer. It is the case of the Fire TV Stick 4K that Mediamarkt has to 37.99 euros. With the discount through the app. It finally stays for 35.28 euros (cheaper than in Black Friday, which fell to 35.99 euros), although … it can leave more expensive than in Amazon. * Some price may have changed from the last review The Fire TV Stick 4K has rarely been so cheap The current price of the Fire TV Stick 4K is good, at least with Medamarkt’s offer. But to that we must add that Shipping costs are 2.99 eurosso if we do not collect it in store, it stays for 38.27 euros, a little above what it costs on Amazon, that in this case the price is of 37.99 euros. When buying it from Amazon, it can be cheaper as long as the Fire TV Stick 4K does not pick up in the Mediamarkt store. He Fire TV Stick 4K It is one of the Dongle Amazon with better value for money, especially with the offers that are available today. It’s a very versatile device that we can use for different purposeseither to have a different operating system or to have an old TV – with HDMI port – some functions that we see on smart televisions. In addition, this version is the most recent, so offers better performance than in the previous generation And an interesting addition for those video game lovers: is compatible with game passso by having an active subscription of the Microsoft service we can access the wide streaming catalog. Finally, we cannot forget one of the most important specifications of the device, and that is, of course, it comes with Alexa integrated. You may also be interested in these other alternatives Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and Environmental Fund * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen, 4K Ultra HD With Dolby Vision, 32GB of storage, Wifi 6, Google TV, black color * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Amazon In Xataka | Best Amazon Fire TV. Which to buy and recommended models to turn your TV into a smart TV depending on the use In Xataka | Best smart tv box. Which to buy and 11 set top box recommended from 27 to 214 euros

The cheaper, the more the electric grid collapses worldwide

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In 1812, a German named Frederick Winsor founded the Light and Coke Company in London. His proposal was to supply gas to multiple homes centrally, instead that each one had to buy and burn their own coal or their own firewood. Thus, public services were born, which today face its greatest transformation in two centuries By effect of renewables. The electricity grid According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), today there are 80 million kilometers of electrical networks in the world. By 2040, 50 million additional kilometers will be needed, in addition to the urgent need to modernize another 30 million kilometers of the current network. The challenge is not only quantity: it is not enough to multiply the electric laying. Wind energy, and especially solar energy, have introduced the need to digitize all infrastructure, Insert control systems and improve your flexibility to handle the intermittent nature of renewables. The paradox of solar energy. The more accessible the photovoltaic panels become, the more users choose to partially abandon the electricity network. This increases the cost for those who stay, and puts in check the stability of the system, pending a deep modernization. In rich and sunny regions Like California either Australiaself -consumption has been about to collapse the network in days of abundant solar generation. But you don’t have to go to the most developed places in the world to find these types of problems. A report in The Economist Review three unsuspected cases: Pakistan, the third largest importer of Chinese solar panels (according to data from 2023), is seeing how companies, farmers and large consumers install photovoltaic systems to self -abuse and stop paying very expensive electrical invoices. Still dependent on old coal plants, the price of electricity in Pakistan is very high, so users with resources have preferred to invest in solar energy South Africa lives another variant of this paradox. Before the mass cuts of the state company Eskom (which are called ‘Load Shedding’), many users install solar panels and batteries to protect themselves from interruptions. The South African municipalities that buy the energy at Eskom and then resell them have to pay increasing invoices to the company and, in turn, charge less to those who migrate to self -consumption. This has generated indebtedness with ESKOM of around 1.2% of the country’s GDP. Solar adoption relieves the dependence of the network, but in turn it is a threat to the income that maintains the infrastructure In Lebanon, the state company only provides electricity a couple of hours a day since 2019. As a direct consequence of this, the photovoltaic facilities on the roofs have multiplied, from 100 to 1,300 megawatts in just three years. This situation, despite partially solving the shortage, is resulting in a fish that bites the tail due to the lack of stability and investments in the network An open gap. As private solar facilities proliferate, fixed network costs (lines, substations …) fall on a smaller user base connected. Those who run out of resources to put panels, generally the poorest, have to pay even higher rates To cover all system expenses, which normally seeks profitability. The numbers in Europe. Europe is at the head of the world in emission and electrification objectives, but this has important economic implications. According to a Bruegel reportthey will need between 65,000 and 100,000 million euros per year to modernize and expand the European electrical infrastructure, especially in distribution networks. At the same time, the European Union promotes solar self -consumption and does not always establish sustainable tarification mechanisms for the network. If many homes are drastically or reduced their consumption of the electricity grid, the user base on which the cost of investment in infrastructure is reduced, the fixed term of the invoice is increased and duttering more consumers, who invest in more solar panels. Cross -border connections. Solar energy itself does not cause instant blackouts, but unbalanced the financial and operational structure of the electricity grid, which has fixed maintenance costs. And he does it for several reasons: the decreasing base of users, the mismatches of supply and demand due to the intermission of renewables and the use of the network as a minimum cost support. In addition to batteries and Pumping plants to stabilize the networkinternational projects such as the hypothetical are needed Transatlantic cable between America and Europe To share renewable surpluses between continents and soften demand peaks, but their development is complex, controversial and quite expensive. Image | US Department of Energy In Xataka | The next drought will be electricity: the electricity grid “is running out of transformers” for the demand for AI

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