My HP All-in-One is nickle-and-diming me in ink costs.

My Lexmark All-In-One is kicking me in the nuts in ink costs. I cannot recommend Lexmark. Given that all I ever print out anymore is shipping labels, I just want a cheap little B&W inkjet with cheap ink that doesn't seize up every ten minutes.

Yeah, a lot of printers are sold on the razer and razor blade theory. Cheap printer, expensive cartridges or ink. Don't know what the exceptions are. One thing, I have learned one can find inexpensive generic cartridges on Amazon. Won't make your inkjet work better, but will save you ink costs. My last cartridge was $17 with a lifespan projected at 5,000 copies. A name brand HP cartridge with the same capacity is $105. Typical generics are $50. So search Amazon really saves. So far the cartridge has been working trouble free for two months and I have no reason to think I won't get the specified number of pages out of it at the least.

I suppose I'm not taking good enough care of my papers, but I seem to be reasonably regularly getting a tad of water damage--small enough that the paper would be fine if I'd used a laser printer, but it's doing chromatography with my home printer output. But, it's a low priced network attached device with a scanner included. Are there any affordable laser MFDs targeted at the home and home office?

The razor, razor blade thing never made sense to me until I dated a guy with a heavyish beard. My blades last forfuckingever. His did not. With the same razor. I'm not the target demo, clearly.

Printers totally can eat me alive though.

Edit: I forgot I was in Tech. So I Nattered. Fail.

Anyone have a theory about why Firefox has stopped showing me alt text?

it has given up the ghost?

Nobody is talking about the Surface tablet announcement? Because it's been a while since MS impressed me so very thoroughly. Especially the Intel models - iPad style tablets that can also run legacy Windows apps! Covers that are also keyboards - mechanical or touch-sensitive, your choice! Pen input! (Jobs may have mocked the stylus, but he was wrong.)

These may be replacing our old Lenovo tablets at work in the future, if they are good.

ETA: Linky

Any idea how much one will cost?

Supposedly the ARM ones will be competitive with the iPad, while the Intel ones will be competitive with ultrabooks. I'm guessing 999 for the 64 GB Intel including choice of keyboard. No guesses on the ARM ones.

Where is display technology going other than Retina? I'm assuming that Apple has that locked down nice and tight, but what else can other tablet, laptop, and monitor manufacturers do as the next quantum leap? What's in the pipeline, and from who?

Failing that, is there something looming that will distract from the Retina Display? The whole bundle of the MS tablet?