Tablets.. iPad.. Computers.. what?!

Okay.... so what would you do?

    I have a motorola xoom.. android tablet... nice... compact...

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Consumers/xoom-android-tablet/us-en/techspecs.html

 but its android.. like the iPad it is a niche device. It does a bunch of things well... For surfing the net or reading a book or checking the weather... all good.. plus other stuff too.... as would the iPad... I think the iPad is as good if that is your choice. I have no desire to not tweak .. or I can say that the iPad is not going to let me do things my way.. and I do like to do things my way.... so... lets set that aside....

So... xoom.. great... with wi fi at home plus 3g out in the middle of nowhere....

Problem I am running into is... as much as its great its not going to do my photo editing or processing like this blog or other stuff only a windows based computer can do... what am I using now? on my lap? A laptop... its big hot and heavy. I usually do my blog here and or do some editing then I put it up.

Since I do not feel like sitting at the main computers in the other room I am forced to use this thing.

Which brings me to this... what do I do...

Should I get a tablet running windows?   Like the surface pro?

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-8-pro/home?WT.mc_id=cpc_US-en_google_mshh&WT.srch=1&semid=ef_GGL_e_h48k05qv11j55lu59l4n_15674745669&WT.search=1

Its a full blown windows running computer that can handle everything I want to do...only one usb3 port though... and a choice of keyboards that will click on and off... or you can use the pen or your finger tips... I could see doing my blog on it and then popping off the keyboard and as a tablet and my fingers processing pictures... that would be cool...  but it only has one usb3 port.. oh and no 3g and only wifi.. no Ethernet connection.... so you would have to use wifi or a phone hotspot.  limitations... but its light enough to read a book on in bed....

There is also the Sony Duo...

http://store.sony.com/c/VAIO-Duo-11-Ultrabook-Laptops/en/c/S_D_SERIES_PAGE

The Sony duo is cheaper that what you see there but its keyboard is integrated.. the whole thing is way larger than the Xoom and the Surface but it also has two usb ports. So... its heavier too. The parameters between the surface and the Duo are so similar that its useless going into it. Woops.. forgot to add that the Duo does also have an Ethernet port as well as wifi.

Or.... or.. I can just keep doing what I am doing and upgrade the motherboards and CPU and ram in my desktops... 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1246777

Or I can go hide in a corner and chew on the baseboards.....

Now... I went back up to the radar again this afternoon.. Not what I was supposed to be doing... I was supposed to be learning about travel paperwork and how to do it.. but .. a crashed radar is more important... we have a very intermittent problem... We drove up there and as soon as it was touched by Tony is started damn well working again.... how do you troubleshoot something that disappears as soon as you look at it.

So.. what a blown afternoon...

The morning was spent having a good time figuring out why the new little scanner the office bought me to file my paperwork with wouldn't talk to my computer... all the awesome ITO Dave figured out... it was hilarious!

Dave is a good friend and a smart feller!

Here is the scanner... I put it here cuse like I said.. its pretty freakin awesome.

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/scanners/document_scanners/imageformula_p_150_portable_scanner

Its all of 4 inches deep.. 2 inches tall.. maybe.. and about 12 inches wide... it folds out.. its solid feeling and it will freakin scan two sides at one time.. no flipping the damn page over... It will also do business cards and about thirty sheets fed at one time..

I plan on scanning every damn file in my office... I need space and there are bunches of files that are old and worth keeping but no space to keep them... hence the scanner... way happy about it... I think Dave and I scanned almost everything we could think to scan .. it took it all... except the Easter peep.. it didn't like that much.....  JOKING>>> JOKING!!

Well.. so there... my day of this and that... 

Oh as I was leaving the radar I stopped and took this picture...

Paseo Del Volcan is now Atrisco Vista... big woop!

Since you have some very cool links embedded in this blog I will not put any more links here today...

Ya got four.... that's the deal right?!  RIGHT?

Have fun people...