A little present for myself.....

ollyk1

Sometimes you just feel like treating yourself to a nice present...well today I feel that way....

I'd be very interested in peoples comments/ recommendations on what to purchase for myself and where (deals etc.). Basically I have €1-2k to spend on myself and I feel like getting a nice piece of kit...

Brief summary of my current situation

I've been sitting on the fence about buying a pda for some time.

I have a sony ericcsson w800 (which I love, I use the syncing and the mp3 player extensively along with the bluetooth remote on my laptop for work presentations and as a remote for controlling dvd playback etc) and a pretty boring (but functional) work laptop that is available to me for personal use but I can't go and put a load of software on it nor does it have great multimedia capabilities. I also have a 3 year old pc at home which I tend to use less and less.

I like the idea of a lightweight snazzy laptop with serious multimedia capabilites or else a top of the range pda with an ability to watch movies on the move with wifi, bluetooth and gps if possible. I'd be prepared to spend a decent amount of cash for something that works well and isn't going to be falling down when I open a few applications.

It's also an option for me to get something in the states in the summer.

So does anyone have any thoughts or a wish list they have for themselves that they'd like to share. Any good deals you've seen recently that you'd like to share would also be very welcome.


cheers

Olly
P.S. I'm posting this here and in the computers section just to get feedback, I hope thats acceptable to the mods.

djdunny

hey olly take a look at this. i was lookin at it the other day in harvey normans, its the neatest thing ive seen in a while.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/series/category/notebooks/tx1000z_series/3/computer_store

its got a touch screen, fingerprint reader & all the media buttons r on the side of the screen. the one i saw was €1495 for the full package.

culabula

ollyk1 wrote:

Sometimes you just feel like treating yourself to a nice present...well today I feel that way....

I'd be very interested in peoples comments/ recommendations on what to purchase for myself and where (deals etc.). Basically I have €1-2k to spend on myself and I feel like getting a nice piece of kit...

Brief summary of my current situation

I've been sitting on the fence about buying a pda for some time.

I have a sony ericcsson w800 (which I love, I use the syncing and the mp3 player extensively along with the bluetooth remote on my laptop for work presentations and as a remote for controlling dvd playback etc) and a pretty boring (but functional) work laptop that is available to me for personal use but I can't go and put a load of software on it nor does it have great multimedia capabilities. I also have a 3 year old pc at home which I tend to use less and less.

I like the idea of a lightweight snazzy laptop with serious multimedia capabilites or else a top of the range pda with an ability to watch movies on the move with wifi, bluetooth and gps if possible. I'd be prepared to spend a decent amount of cash for something that works well and isn't going to be falling down when I open a few applications.

It's also an option for me to get something in the states in the summer.

So does anyone have any thoughts or a wish list they have for themselves that they'd like to share. Any good deals you've seen recently that you'd like to share would also be very welcome.


cheers

Olly
P.S. I'm posting this here and in the computers section just to get feedback, I hope thats acceptable to the mods.

A MacBook and a Slingbox!

ollyk1

djdunny wrote:

hey olly take a look at this. i was lookin at it the other day in harvey normans, its the neatest thing ive seen in a while.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/series/category/notebooks/tx1000z_series/3/computer_store

its got a touch screen, fingerprint reader & all the media buttons r on the side of the screen. the one i saw was €1495 for the full package.

Pretty very pretty....we have a front runner!! Thanks for the info.

Urban Weigl

I would also get a MacBook, they have just been updated today as well: http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html

wba88

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