Every 3 months I go window shopping to see what we could have on the streets.
In this case I was browsing video cards and found That the big box stores were left wanting for something better.
A generic video card with Nvidia’s 400 GTS series chips were going for $180
That in itself is not bad for an entry level upgrade but, you’d have to find a special shop… I know of one in Whitby… In order to find the GTX series and that’s what you would look for if you were avidly gaming!
In other news, I went looking for “printability” in pad’s.
Acer has an eye catcher with a Windows based OS and would be compatible with everything but, I found the Android based tablets were only compatible if the printer is wireless and made compatible at the time of manufacture.
I was recommended to e-mail my documents to a PC if I wanted to print and I felt this industry hasn’t quite matured yet.
The other features of 1st generation hand helds, like the Palm and Blackberry, still have synchronizing features that outstretch our new pad style trend, such as directly synchronizing with Outlook and RealPlayer. The new pad’s bring their own software to synchronize with. A pet pieve of mine, that it’s an annoying attempt at keeping you on the same product as generations progress.
My hat goes off to Blackberry as RIM’s Playbook still synchronizes with Outlook.
My search continues for those shops in each area that cater to the uniqueness of all our computing needs. Watch for updates, they’re coming soon.
