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My unexpected acquisition of a new tablet:
Jul. 9th, 2012 09:53 amYesterday morning, I was walking to the kitchen for breakfast, tablet in hand so that I could read the news, when the damnable thing slipped out of it's case (it was a cheap case), hit the floor, and the screen got a crack down the middle. It was still usable, but as my laptop has been broken since February, and the tablet is my only computing device at home (aside from the hubby's laptop, which I try not to use too often as he needs it for work and school) I didn't want to take any chances. Luckily, I still had FOUR WHOLE DAYS left on my accidental damage and handling warranty from Best Buy for my Thrive. So, I took the sucker in to see if it could get fixed.
Sadly, they couldn't repair it/exchange it for the same make and model, as Thrive's aren't being made anymore, and none of the Best Buy's in the mid-Atlantic region had any (or so the clerks at my store told me), so, instead, I got to pick out a brand new tablet in the same price range and take that home with me.
I am now the owner of an Asus Transformer TF300T tablet. And aside from the fact that it won't let me play Mass Effect: Infiltrator on it (the game is not yet optimized for ICS apparently?) it is a pretty nice machine. It has a MUCH better screen than the Thrive, and the Tegra 3 quad-core processor makes running apps and the web browser a smoother experience. (Hell, I was able to use it to go on tumblr last night without wanting to stick a spork in my eye at how long each post took to load, so bonus!)
The biggest downside is that, unlike the Thrive which had full size HDMI, full size USB, mini-USB, and full size SD card slots, the Asus only has a mini-HDMI and a mini-SD card slot. BUT, it does have an optional keyboard dock (which I didn't get yesterday, as I wanted to exchange to not cost me anything as I wasn't prepared for an expense at that point, but I WILL be getting in the future) which has a full size USB port and SD card slot (and will also extend battery life).
Another possible future bonus is that if I can reliably use the tablet for writing via that nifty keyboard anywhere I go, and it turns out that my laptop is well and truly dead, I might opt to get a desktop as a replacement, which would be good for all sorts of reasons. (Cost savings and ease of upgrades being the two topmost ones.)
In the end, this may turn out to have been a very fortuitous trip to the kitchen.
Non tech-related, real-life post forthcoming, honest!
Sadly, they couldn't repair it/exchange it for the same make and model, as Thrive's aren't being made anymore, and none of the Best Buy's in the mid-Atlantic region had any (or so the clerks at my store told me), so, instead, I got to pick out a brand new tablet in the same price range and take that home with me.
I am now the owner of an Asus Transformer TF300T tablet. And aside from the fact that it won't let me play Mass Effect: Infiltrator on it (the game is not yet optimized for ICS apparently?) it is a pretty nice machine. It has a MUCH better screen than the Thrive, and the Tegra 3 quad-core processor makes running apps and the web browser a smoother experience. (Hell, I was able to use it to go on tumblr last night without wanting to stick a spork in my eye at how long each post took to load, so bonus!)
The biggest downside is that, unlike the Thrive which had full size HDMI, full size USB, mini-USB, and full size SD card slots, the Asus only has a mini-HDMI and a mini-SD card slot. BUT, it does have an optional keyboard dock (which I didn't get yesterday, as I wanted to exchange to not cost me anything as I wasn't prepared for an expense at that point, but I WILL be getting in the future) which has a full size USB port and SD card slot (and will also extend battery life).
Another possible future bonus is that if I can reliably use the tablet for writing via that nifty keyboard anywhere I go, and it turns out that my laptop is well and truly dead, I might opt to get a desktop as a replacement, which would be good for all sorts of reasons. (Cost savings and ease of upgrades being the two topmost ones.)
In the end, this may turn out to have been a very fortuitous trip to the kitchen.
Non tech-related, real-life post forthcoming, honest!
