Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
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le nubian - Nov 29, 2011 8:02:54 am PST #18655 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Amy - Nov 29, 2011 8:04:45 am PST #18656 of 25501
Because books.
Duh. Thank you, le nubian!
Kathy A - Nov 29, 2011 8:53:04 am PST #18657 of 25501
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of refurbished tech, Amazon has a Woot of a Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1, refurbished, for only $319 (normally around $500). Should I get it? Refurbished can mean almost anything.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2011 9:11:23 am PST #18658 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
YES. I want to marry mine, Kathy. It's saving my sanity right now. But you might not need that as badly as I do. It's also fun.
Kathy A - Nov 29, 2011 9:15:29 am PST #18659 of 25501
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So, you'd say go with the Samsung over the iPad?
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2011 9:26:39 am PST #18660 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Personally, I think Android scales up to 10" better than iOS. I wish the app availability were bigger, but only a little. There's a mad amount out there for both platforms. But I feel that my expanded screen space is very practically utilised with the multiplicity of Android widgets that put apps and their information *right* *there*.
Kathy A - Nov 29, 2011 9:53:06 am PST #18661 of 25501
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My main sticking point with the Samsung vs. the iPad is the battery life--it looks like even though the specs on the Samsung say that it's 10 hours, in reality (CNET's testing), it's more like 7 to 7.5, whereas the iPad is the full 10-11 hours it claims.
It might not make that much difference right now, anyway, since I can't figure out how to find the Woot! deal on Amazon. It might be gone by now.
Jon B. - Nov 29, 2011 10:03:15 am PST #18662 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
woot.com lists the deal as sold out.
NoiseDesign - Nov 29, 2011 10:09:48 am PST #18663 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I love my iPad, and it's a first generation model, not even the iPad 2.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2011 10:15:50 am PST #18664 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I go through a WiFi heavy day with pretty frequent web use (and intermittent GPS) and get 8 or so hours out of my Galaxy, for future reference. I don't know what the settings were for CNET's testing. But I've run out of juice maybe twice in the whole time I've had it, and it goes everywhere with me, and gets used a lot.