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To date, our research would confirm much of what J wrote. No single device can do everything, and as I already have an ipod, a cell phone, and a digital camera, the question is what am I going to use this new device for most? That is probably typing – something you can’t really do well on any of the smart phones.
I set the UNGS to work on the problem last night, and now I will shamelessly take credit for the fruits of his labors. (I fed him while his fingers did the walking and folded his laundrey. That has to count for something!)
- Laptops are too big and too heavy. There is no way I am schlepping our monster back and forth to work.
- The whole point of this is internet, internet, internet. The mini computers don’t have PCMIA slots, but the Acer Aspire One is coming out this Fall with built in 3G card.
- There aren’t Linux drivers for the USB internet sticks yet – which would mean if you wanted to go with the hardware available now, you would have to get the more expensive windows machine.
- Waiting for the 3G computer means saving money by not having to buy the card, and not having a card or stick hanging outside the computer. You could also go with the less expensive operating system.
- Isn’t it cute?! The brown is alright, but I am more of a Saphire girl myself. Here’s the web page with lots o’ info. http://www.acer.com/aspireone/
- The UNGS read that vod.afone has better coverage outside of more urban areas, so we would likely go with them – that and he found a 6month contract for data yesterday (I can’t find it today). O.2 offers much slower connections and T.mob.ile supposedly has better coverage in the cities.
- Pretty much all of the contracts forbid VOIP and instant messaging. How is that supposed to work? (see, i promised dumb questions!)
And yes, I read, or at least I read once and have ordered a new book and bought some more Spanish workbooks, so I will be working on my vocabulary as well.
The long and short of it is that I plan to wait, at least until October when the new hardware is supposed to come out and will reconsider my options then. Til then, I can dream of toys.
Boldy and unabashedly ripped off from “Stuff Catholics Like”, which I am pretty sure was ripped off from “Stuff White People Like”, I will be presenting “Stuff Germans Like”. (If you would like to put together an entry along the same lines on your blog, go for it, just let me know if you’d like it linked here.*)
*all very much tounge in cheek as your readership undoubtedly dwarfs mine
Inspired by observations that I made soeben from the window of my office, I present the first piece of Stuff Germans Like: unicycles.
With infrastructure that makes the daily commute by bicycle less death-defying than in the States, the Germans have sought out a new level of complexity to return the challenge to self-propelled wheeled transport – removing a wheel.
While in other places, the unicycle is transport only fit for a clown (or Patrick Dempsey), they a
re in relatively widespread use in Germany as evidenced by their sale in Aldi and Lidl and countless Einrad clubs and vereine (Just look at them all!). The interest group does appear to skew to pre-teen girls, though. Given my choice between that and Hannah Montana or HSM, I’ll take unicycle riding any day.
And who can argue when as Einradfreak insists Einradfahren ist die beste Beschäftigung die es gibt. (Riding a unicycle is the best activity there is.) Really, go there and read the rest of the paragraph.
In fairness, I have been told that having a clothing store called “Banana Republic” come across as strange if one isn’t accustomed to it, but mister*lady ?
Do I have to understand this business of assigning “Bird of the Year” or better yet, “Board Game of the Year” or, God help us “Sommerhit of the Year”? In the US we have State Birds, and in NM there is even a State Question, but we have somehow avoided the great curse of the annual appointment.
Two paths obviously diverged in a wood somewhere.
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