What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dafyre said:
By the time you start getting up into the devices costing between $800 and $1300, You could purchase really nice laptops... I just bought a 17" Laptop 2/16GB of RAM and a NVIDIA something or another with 4GB of RAM.... And it came out to be $1350. It's a gaming laptop, and the battery life sucks (only an hour or two), but I could replace any desktop around me with it.
Do you really want to be paying that kind of premium for portability? (I can't say anything -- I just upgraded my phone from a Note 3 to a Note 4, lol.).
I hear ya! The thought of dropping $1000 for a 'tablet' just hurts my mind. But I think that has more to do with the mental gap I still need to overcome that a Windows tablet (at least the larger ones) ARE laptops, just with no attached keyboard.
The bigger issue for me is I just don't have a use case for it. I don't own an iPad. I do own an ancient Asus Transformer Prime Android tablet but really it was a waste of money for me because I rarely used it (ultimately only used it to read a few books). I don't play games on the droid tablet, I don't watch movies on it, etc, etc... I just never found myself reaching for it.
When I want to use my electronic device it's either my laptop (lapability) or my phone. When I'm blogging, chatting, etc, the laptop sized keyboard is a requirement for me. When I only need to look at a few things, short replies.. the phone is great.
On to phones - Damn they are expensive. I really can't understand what makes an iPhone or Note 4 cost nearly $900 when I can get a SP3 for about the same with a screen that is 5 times larger and a much larger battery. While I do do it, I am personally irked with myself every time because of this disparity.
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@Dashrender said:
On to phones - Damn they are expensive. I really can't understand what makes an iPhone or Note 4 cost nearly $900 when I can get a SP3 for about the same with a screen that is 5 times larger and a much larger battery. While I do do it, I am personally irked with myself every time because of this disparity.
That makes two of us. Because we know that by next week our $device will be obsolete... I usually try to buy top of the line so that I don't have to upgrade my device for a couple of years... but that Note 3 was a wash.
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Waiting / watching software install..
Waiting / watching the new Heat pump being installed. Already thinking about lunch.... Hmmmm.... lunch.
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@g.jacobse Bacon!
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@dafyre said:
@g.jacobse Bacon!
Yup... Bacon wrapped bacon, smoked bacon on peppered Canadian Bacon.. and Bacon chips on the side.
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@Dashrender said:
Everything is that way. If you want to use the iPad for real data entry you need to buy a keyboard.
Yeah but the iPad isn't marketed as being for that. It's a tablet and just a tablet. To use it the way it is primarily intended, marketed and spoken about all you need is the iPad and a normal case. I have many iPads and don't use keyboards or any add ons. The SP is all about attempting to be a laptop which to make it even a poor laptop requires buying extra stuff.
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@Dashrender said:
On to phones - Damn they are expensive. I really can't understand what makes an iPhone or Note 4 cost nearly $900 when I can get a SP3 for about the same with a screen that is 5 times larger and a much larger battery.
Larger is cheaper. It's easier to make things bigger than smaller.
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@dafyre said:
That makes two of us. Because we know that by next week our $device will be obsolete... I usually try to buy top of the line so that I don't have to upgrade my device for a couple of years... but that Note 3 was a wash.
I do the opposite, avoid top of the line so that I can spend less over time and upgrade more often so that my average is pretty up to date at a low price point.
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Off to a Meeting with Unitrends Sales people. Not often I get to spend this much time with Unitrends team members in person. SC at the end of April, @KatieUnitrends, Jenn Sipala and Elissa (I hope I spelled that right) too in London and now Daryl Stevens here in NY. Fun!
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@scottalanmiller If I were to exclude the Note 3 (that was just a crappy phone), it works out pretty good for me. I won't need a new phone in 2 years if this Note 4 holds up... in which case, I use it until it breaks. Then a buy the next one up the totem pole when mine dies.
I actually got bit by the Note 3 for the very reason that makes you wait and get last gen hardware when you upgrade. Last gen hardware has been tested and generally approved or marked as "do not buy"
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I get low end to mid grade phones, but I use prepaid and pay for phones in full out of pocket. I buy used most of the time.
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@thecreativeone91 Being deaf, my phone is how you reach me. (regardless of if it is email, text messages, chat, whatever). I need a device that works, and works right. Generally Samsung has done well for me (I had one of their old Windows CE Phones, then something else, and then a Droid Eris... then back to Samsung for my last 2 phones.
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Asus is starting to offer phones with CPU upgrade options. Never seen that before.
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@thecreativeone91 What is that phone that is the one where everything is a module? I don't think it is out on the market yet... '
I wouldn't mind triyng the Futurefone from IdealFuture (http://www.idealfuture.com) one of these days... maybe after my Note 4 dies.
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Mop up of user's tears is nearly complete after a weekend cluster f***.(Admin Edit) Looking forward to getting some real work done soon.
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@MattSpeller Related to that PowerStrip thread you made a bit ago?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Asus is starting to offer phones with CPU upgrade options. Never seen that before.
Very interesting.
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Doing some package deployments. Hoping to hit the bar tonight. Had an awesome night last night hanging out with the local politicians (vote is in two weeks.) Actually had them take me and my friends back to their houses to party.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Doing some package deployments.
I usually just ship mine, not send them to war.
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@dafyre said:
@thecreativeone91 What is that phone that is the one where everything is a module? I don't think it is out on the market yet... '
I wouldn't mind triyng the Futurefone from IdealFuture (http://www.idealfuture.com) one of these days... maybe after my Note 4 dies.
Nope, it's coming in February, review units are already out. It's not modular though.
I don't think the FutureFone is viable though, to many engineer nightmares to overcome with that ambitious idea.
