Though 8 days late…
Man the days fly be fast when you’re having fun.
I have to say… It’s good to be back at work on a Monday. Those three day weekends where actually killing me. Maybe I should get my head checked.
New Years Eve sucked ass. I wasn’t proactive at all in setting anything up, and just assumed that something would happen. Well something did, and it wasn’t good.
First off, I should have copped a nap during the day, but instead, I was being a junky, shopping for electronics all day. So needless to say, I wasn’t fully charged come night time. Since none of you asses has solid plans, I ended up agreeing to go out with MJ to a couple of her friends houses.
I’m not sure if I set myself up to be bored, or do I really not have anything in common with these people. The topic of conversation always turns out to be about animals, sports, or male body parts… After a few hours of this, my ass was ready to go home, and I did so alone. I tried to go to sleep, but was getting txt messages all they way till 5am. Why did I keep my phone on you might ask? MJ said that she was going to stay over at a friend’s house and catch a ride in the morning… I knew damn well, the way they were drinking no one would be taking anyone anywhere until early afternoon. Plus, this is Milwaukee; catching a cab here is damn near impossible, especially at 5am. So I knew I’d be getting the, ‘Can you come pick me up?’ call. So me being the caring SOB that I am tossed and turned for 5 hours till I got that call.
At this point, all I wanted to do is go to bed… Pick up MJ and back home. When I arrive at the club… ‘Can you drop so and so off at their house?’ Godamnit!
Last week Tuesday, I sat down at my desk and fired up the laptop… I realized… it’s time.
With a manufacture date of December 2002, and me picking it up shortly after, this laptop is old. IBM Think Pad T22. The best laptop I have ever owned.
I’m currently on my second hard drive, but other than that, nothing else has really given me a problem. But I think I should upgrade before it does.
After owning the T22, and using many other laptops over the years, I have yet to find anything more comfortable and functional than a Think Pad. So straight to Lenovo’s site I go.
The X60 Tablet is what I decided to get. Now I don’t know if any of you have shopped for laptops before, but there is a billion different ways you can order the damn things. I think the Think Pads are the king of offenders when it comes to this. If you take the low end of a model and the high end, they are two totally different machines and about a 2 thousand dollar price difference. The one I wanted has an option called Multi-View/Multi-Touch and a couple other bells and whistles, But the Multi-Touch is what’s important to me. The ability to use your finger as well at the digi pen to navigate the screen equals Multi-Touch (If it is true Multi-Touch, it has the ability to track multiple points on the screen simultaneously as well).
Well… I decided to check with Lenovo, and it looks like the one I ordered does not have the multi touch screen…F@&K! Not sure if I should send it back or not. Because of the way Lenovo pre packages them for third party vendors, the price difference is a thousand bucks at CDW. But if I build one on Lenovo’s site… it’s a 200 dollar diff. If it doesn’t track multiple points… I don’t know if it worth the hassle. I’ve got 30 days upon receipt to return, so I’ll review and let you guys know.
Gotta keep the DP crown.
I spent the majority of the past weekend catching up on all of the latest upcoming gadgets. As some of you may know, tis the week to find out about all of upcoming hotness for this year. The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is now going on in Las Vegas. For the last couple of months, I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with a new PDA phone that has all of the functionality as my current, plus. Samsung has not let me down. I currently own the SCH-I730, and while I am happy with it, there are a few things that bug me about it. It shipped originally with Windows Mobile 2003 and I upgraded to 5.0. The device seems to have become somewhat unstable since I have done this, and have to reboot it at least twice a day. Second, this device is a PDA first and a phone second, wheas the Treo 700w for instance, is a phone first. Much more user friendly when it comes to making calls, but lacks the horse power and memory of the Samsung
Allow me to introduce you to the SCH-I760… the CDMA version.
As you can see, the phone is super slim, and still packs all of the power of its predecessor. They have the numeric keys on the front of the device, so that you can make a call without opening the slider, or trying to use the touch screen sans the stylus. Huge for me! Also you will notice that the keyboard now slides from the side, allowing for bigger keys. As always, looks like Verizon will be the one to pick up the phone first, and now the only question is when. Right now, they say the end of Q1, but that’s what they said when the I730 came out, and I wasn’t able to get that until August of that year.
So I guess I’ll just put up with the quirks and save my pennies until its release.
No time to proof… gotta pay some bills.
Peace!
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