Sunday, 16 January 2011

New Year...New Gadgets!

OK, my trigger finger is itching to press 'Buy Now' on some new gadget... but what is left out there to buy that I don't already have or have need of?

A new laptop would be great as my Macbook is now nearly 3 years old (still going strong, when the battery feels like it). However, I can't bring myself to spend that much on a new one when it uses old CPU technology. I'm hoping now that Nvidia & Intel have solved their differences that we might start seeing some 13" Macbooks with at least Core i3 CPUs in.

I then start thinking about a tablet and how I could make use of one of those. I already have an iPhone so have sold my soul to Apple/iTunes - so an iPad makes sense...but the lack of front-facing camera is a bit of a deal clincher. Of course that will be solved eventually (link) but not seen enough for me.
Samsung's Galaxy tab is the next best contender...but it's for home use, I don't want a 7" screen...I need the full 10 inches (as the actress said to the bishop).

A new desktop PC perhaps? But the old one is still going strong - and to be honest, I only really use it for the odd bit of video encoding and storage...so is it really worth it? I keep looking at the boxes from the Tranquil PC guys and thinking how I'd like one of their i5 machines. I'm hoping at some point they update them to have USB3 and then I think I'd be a buyer (they have to have that little bit more future proofing for me).

And then, after writing this all down, the feeling passes and I remember that I don't really need anything...until next time.