That's what I thought, but I read somewhere that they're going to be introducting a competitor to the new Kindle Fire, which I think is more a competitor to the iPad, right?

My mom is apparently looking for one with all the bells and whistles on it--she actually thought that tablets also did phone stuff, which I corrected her on. I was thinking about buying one for myself after Xmas anyway, but Mom told me that her brother just gave all of his siblings a little financial present, so she's going to be spending more on Chrismtas this year and is willing to pay for mine--yay!

I told her I'd either find or put together a comparison chart for all the tablet options for both of us before we shop for ourselves.

ut I read somewhere that they're going to be introducting a competitor to the new Kindle Fire, which I think is more a competitor to the iPad, right?

Yeah, that's why I said if you want just reading tablets--but if you want one that is more iPad-ish, then there are tons of choices and options and whatnot.

I'm having trouble with an old-ish 4 gig flash drive that I use to transfer files from work to home and vice versa. I've never had any problems until I got my new 64-bit laptop at home, but now I frequently get messages saying there were problems found when I plug it in on the 32-bit system at work. Are there issues with using a flash drive between 64-bit and 32-bit, or is this just a sign I need a new flash drive?

I unzipped a dmg file on my mac and then tried to mount it. Mounting froze. Force quitting finder didn't work--it never quit. I tried to restart, but I'm just getting the spinny wheel. I'm unused to having to have to troubleshoot macs. Other than continuing trying to restart, what's on the menu?

Well, a couple more ons and offs took care of that, but I realise I don't know thing freaking one about troubleshooting OS X, and I'm rapidly getting out of touch with Windows as the version numbers increase and I use it less and less.

This is how we turn into our parents, isn't it?

Table of which devices (and when) will update to ICS. It's being maintained, so I will reload slavishly over the coming months. I wish it had my phone on it. I don't know I want to root it.

So, I bought a new iPhone, but I can't figure out how to make it sync with the computer. Grrr!

Color Nook is not-quite-a-tablet; you can't watch videos on it, take pics or vid, but it's very, very close.

Email, webbrowsing, FB, Twitter -- all of that you can do.

Since T-Mobile is switching to AT&T in March, and we have an unlimited text, talk and data plan that will switch over -- and since I'm up for an upgrade in March and am looking to upgrade to an iPhone then, hopefully -- we decided that the Nook Color was the most logical choice, since really, if we're at home, D's got a netbook and I have the laptop, and um, iTouch. If I DO upgrade to an iPhone, I will be trading in the Touch, which is a 2nd gen with 8 gigs.

But we both LOVE the Nook Color. IMO, the color clarity is even better than iPad2.

My sister has the iPad1 (won it at work), and she was telling me that her main issue with it is the lack of Adobe Flash, which was not resolved with the iPad2 release. I'm leaning more towards getting the Samsung 10.1, which most of the online reviews are saying are about as close to the iPad2's quality level as any of the Android-based tablets. I'd like it if the tablet had an SD or USB port, but I don't think the Samsung has that, nor does the iPad.

I'm going to stop by Best Buy tomorrow night and take a look at both of them.