cliffordcooley
Posts: 13,141 +6,441
These comments are so hilarious! I find nearly all to be true and shouldn't even need saying.
Get with the Times: These 9 Devices Might Be a Waste of Your Money
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Dukenukemx
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Now that's a good laugh. Come on guys, upload your data through your slow and limited internet connections. Remember guys, nothing is free, including storage. Have fun with privacy issues.
I m hearing impaired and don't use the phone much, though at home, I have captioning phones.
So, I do not own a smart phone. I have a Garmin but don't use it, because I have very good sense of directions and can go every place I have ever been to once. I don't phone much because most of my friends have passed away and there wont be any top help me celebrate my 90th birthday in a couple of weeks.
So, I do not own a smart phone. I have a Garmin but don't use it, because I have very good sense of directions and can go every place I have ever been to once. I don't phone much because most of my friends have passed away and there wont be any top help me celebrate my 90th birthday in a couple of weeks.
hahahanoobs
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I still use some of the above, like a PC and alarm clock. I'm not leaving my phone on to listen to the radio before I fall asleep, but a few of the others are being integrated in other devices and services I have and use.
The very first thing you have forgotten is the fact that there is world beyond the US of A. While users in Belgium - that I know personally - have internet connectivity of 80 mbps - we in India are lucky to have affordable 2 mbps connections. Apart from the speed the, I would say more than 90 % of the connections have data caps that might limit usage to less than A movie's worth. The second major problem is up-time. So anything to do with cloud storage is out. Next comes the desktop PC. A good and reliable PC even today costs less than a decent capability tablet. Experience of watching a movie on a tablet does not come any where close to that on a 26" monitor or on a 42" or 52" HD TV. BTW we do not have any thing like Hulu or NetFlix or similar on-line movie services. Forget about the tablet I am uncomfortable with even a laptop's keyboard. If some component of the PC goes out I can always fix it, not so with a tablet ! 5 years ago I was all for the flash drives and did away with DVD drives. Today I still need them for installing OS/software and fixing the damaged ones. It is still the easiest mode for sharing your files.
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I strongly disagree with everything listed here. Terrible article. And I rarely comment.
I have a couple of comments to make as regards this article.
4) Flash drives have much utility as boot devices and for system recovery. Ever tried doing a net boot from a system with a dead boot drive? How about restoring your back up image to a new storage device? From the net? Days to weeks? Use a Flash drive to boot and remove malware or check the hardware to see what the problem is? A USB Flash drive makes these much easier and quicker than optical media and is capable of being updated.
5) I have and use on my daily walk an old Sandisk Sansa e260. This little very solid and well made device is a real treat to use with Rockbox firmware. The internal 4 GB is plenty but as it also has a micro SD slot I added an 8 GB slab. The device will need recharging every week or so as the internal gauge tells me it should run for 24 hours continuously. IDK but I do use daily. OH, yes the battery itself is user replaceable and they are widely available. The sound is as good as my head or earphones are capable of producing. Unless this thing dies outright due to hardware failure, I don't see myself without it. Oops, I have 2 of them.
7) Yup, the lowly besmirched home PC. As to being overpowered, I would agree. The attitude of AMD as regards their chips being 'fast enough' is indeed spot on for the average user. I am writing this on a desktop with a 4+ year old CPU, a 2+ year old GPU, dual monitors (and am capable of adding more), 2 USB hubs with 11 ports,plus the 8 on the motherboard, a wireless USB keyboard, USB camera, 2 eSATA ports with 2 drive docks attached that will run 3 drives between them and just for snits and giggles, a DVD drive. I haven't done much in the intervening 4 years beyond swapping the RAM for a faster bigger set and the video card. I haven't needed to as it all runs fine and does what I, the user, needs it to.
I support a community where I live and have gone from the position of 'needing' everyone else to have a bigger faster box to meeting needs. I rarely advise a CPU upgrade anymore as finding one that will work in whatever Joe Sixpack's home box can be problematic. I am finding that people can get along with older hardware that works versus shelling out actual cash money for a better experience.
9) A battery powered alarm clock will IME generally need to replace the AA or AAA cell every 2 years or so under normal day to day use. Just like wall clocks. I, too, am a cheap clock user, in that my clock cost me roughly $1, before batteries. My current no name absolutely cheap as in chicken bottom of the barrel OMG flat out low budget piece of crap alarm clock with its piercingly loud alarm (the main reason I chose it BTW) doesn't keep time well but in knowledge of this comes the solution( check and reset the time manually, zoot alors).
4) Flash drives have much utility as boot devices and for system recovery. Ever tried doing a net boot from a system with a dead boot drive? How about restoring your back up image to a new storage device? From the net? Days to weeks? Use a Flash drive to boot and remove malware or check the hardware to see what the problem is? A USB Flash drive makes these much easier and quicker than optical media and is capable of being updated.
5) I have and use on my daily walk an old Sandisk Sansa e260. This little very solid and well made device is a real treat to use with Rockbox firmware. The internal 4 GB is plenty but as it also has a micro SD slot I added an 8 GB slab. The device will need recharging every week or so as the internal gauge tells me it should run for 24 hours continuously. IDK but I do use daily. OH, yes the battery itself is user replaceable and they are widely available. The sound is as good as my head or earphones are capable of producing. Unless this thing dies outright due to hardware failure, I don't see myself without it. Oops, I have 2 of them.
7) Yup, the lowly besmirched home PC. As to being overpowered, I would agree. The attitude of AMD as regards their chips being 'fast enough' is indeed spot on for the average user. I am writing this on a desktop with a 4+ year old CPU, a 2+ year old GPU, dual monitors (and am capable of adding more), 2 USB hubs with 11 ports,plus the 8 on the motherboard, a wireless USB keyboard, USB camera, 2 eSATA ports with 2 drive docks attached that will run 3 drives between them and just for snits and giggles, a DVD drive. I haven't done much in the intervening 4 years beyond swapping the RAM for a faster bigger set and the video card. I haven't needed to as it all runs fine and does what I, the user, needs it to.
I support a community where I live and have gone from the position of 'needing' everyone else to have a bigger faster box to meeting needs. I rarely advise a CPU upgrade anymore as finding one that will work in whatever Joe Sixpack's home box can be problematic. I am finding that people can get along with older hardware that works versus shelling out actual cash money for a better experience.
9) A battery powered alarm clock will IME generally need to replace the AA or AAA cell every 2 years or so under normal day to day use. Just like wall clocks. I, too, am a cheap clock user, in that my clock cost me roughly $1, before batteries. My current no name absolutely cheap as in chicken bottom of the barrel OMG flat out low budget piece of crap alarm clock with its piercingly loud alarm (the main reason I chose it BTW) doesn't keep time well but in knowledge of this comes the solution( check and reset the time manually, zoot alors).
Boilerhog146
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I will die of natural causes at my gaming pc.the smart phone battery will be long dead.the only way to get blueray movies to run on my 65 inch hd tv,yes TV... in 3d is with a pc attached. the battery in my camcorder far out last ,the smart phone when camping..45% hearing loss so I need a good loud alarmclock..I could go on and on and on .but theres enough long posts I allready have a headach ,lol..all the smartphones on flight MH370. 1 gps and voila.theres she is..my heart goes out to the families..techspot running out of decent stuff to post..
GPS yea, but still Google Maps has not been exactly problem free either.
Sometimes it will say a location can't be found, even though it shows up in the search results.
And lately after about 2.5 hours of driving I will get black squares all over my map and then it crashes, could be the phone too of course but it has no other issues.
And a complete restore has been performed on the phone aswell...
Sometimes it will say a location can't be found, even though it shows up in the search results.
And lately after about 2.5 hours of driving I will get black squares all over my map and then it crashes, could be the phone too of course but it has no other issues.
And a complete restore has been performed on the phone aswell...
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Point and shoot cameras take pictures that look better than cell phones.
And one has BR discs becuase A) who wants to collect a file? And B) They're yours and no one tracks when and what you watch.
And one has BR discs becuase A) who wants to collect a file? And B) They're yours and no one tracks when and what you watch.
lchu12
Posts: 191 +13
Completely agree.
RenGood08
Posts: 183 +13
I agree on some of these things, but you can never truly get rid of a DVD player. Netflix doesn't have everything! For music, I use my cellphone, but I'd rather have an MP3 player so I can use up all the space on that and not on my cellphone. Handheld consoles will never die. No matter how powerful of a cellphone you have, the handheld console was made for that kind of power and will never go away. As for desktop computers, I don't think those are going away too soon either. Considering PC gamers prefer towers for their power and abilities to upgrade whenever. Laptops can be as powerful, but towers are much better and made for that kind of processing power! (I am a PC gamer and I would rather have a tower than my laptop.) I do believe that the bulky GPS systems are a part of the past, I have GPS on my phone and would rather use that...but some of this stuff is NOT obsolete. And regards to flash drives, they are NOT obsolete. I might only store useless information on the cloud. INformation like research sites, assignments I don't have my flash drive handy to save, and some cool sites and articles I find. But flash drives I prefer! I know my stuff is safe because it is with me. I DO NOT trust cloud sites yet.
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