I couldn’t decide on what type of laptop to get, there are so many of them out there!!!! My old Dell finally bit the dust, it was about ten years old, and I didn’t want a Mac desktop yet because I figured I would wait for that expense when TomTom starts school. So there I was in the midst of a million laptops, tablets, and a zillion other things with no idea what to do…
I don’t know if it was a good idea, but I started out with Cnet and made a list of things I wanted to get in the future. This list ended up being the laptop, a new Ipod, and a camera device that saves to a hard drive instead of the regular old camcorder I have that I have to burn to a dvd via my tv. Then I searched around Cnet to see what was out there. I also have a friend at work with the new Ipad, but I knew I needed a computer for the house and that wasn’t the route I needed to go at this point.
They had a dell laptop, that converted into a tablet that was really cool and got some good reviews. However, after pricing it at Dell and adding Microsoft office I was up in the $900 dollar range. CRAZY! I could just go for the Mac and I wasn’t ready for that big of an expense right now. However, I did decide to go with the new Ipod touch because it was on sale at Best Buy and seemed to offer everything the Ipad offered, minus the 3G, only smaller. Cnet also told me not to buy any tablets right now if I could hold off because so many of them will be entering the market in the next year that they will only get better. Mini tablet and music holder to boot, it was on sale… PURCHASE!
Then after hours of exhaustive research I found a laptop, that got good reviews for a “budget” laptop, it has a back lit keyboard, web cam, and microsoft office included – all for under $500 bucks…. PURCHASE!
I also got a special offer for a $60 savings on a printer, went with the wireless that I can email from my mobile devices, and got that baby for less that $40 bucks! PURCHASE!
All in all, after a few hours of study time I managed to get three awesome items for less that that one Dell! And I decided to hold off on the camcorder device because I got a camera and video camera in my Ipod touch that will be easy to take anywheres!!!!!!! I’ve already used it to upload videos of TomTom to facebook.
One cool thing about my laptop is that the mouse pad acts as a touch pad, however I haven’t mastered it yet and hope my niece can help me out with it this weekend. However, I LOVE it! And the printer… LOVE IT!!! And the Ipod… SUPER LOVE IT!!!! And now I can type on my blog directly from my computer with Windows Live – I didn’t even know these things existed, but I am loving it.
I thought it was great that TomTom was like… you got an Ipod touch? And I didn’t even know what it was called. Have I really turned into that old person? Why yes, I think I have, and my touch sensitive mouse pad is here to prove it, Biotch!
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Update!!!! In the short time of reading this blog on my site, I figured out the mouse pad... HA! Practice makes purrrfect you old fart! I also needed to mention for humble-sake that I paid off my car finally! No, not early, just finally hit that last payment - so I was able to spend a little bit on this laptop that I had been planning on buying for months now when my old one crapped out on me. I'm not one to throw around large amounts of money (and for me this was large) so I had to be sure to get the best deal I could possibly manage!
Update!!!! In the short time of reading this blog on my site, I figured out the mouse pad... HA! Practice makes purrrfect you old fart! I also needed to mention for humble-sake that I paid off my car finally! No, not early, just finally hit that last payment - so I was able to spend a little bit on this laptop that I had been planning on buying for months now when my old one crapped out on me. I'm not one to throw around large amounts of money (and for me this was large) so I had to be sure to get the best deal I could possibly manage!
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