Shopaholic? Me?

Yesterday I was accused of being a geek. And I must admit that it is true. For example, I love my playbook tablet which I insisted we buy rather than my IT hubby. I use it for the kids to learn on, to keep them occupied, to play on, to watch films on, for cooking, as a book in bed, to go house hunting, as a diary, as a camera (though not often), checking my email, surfing the web and loads more. This is aside from the fact that my phone has all these capabilitie but has a small screen, my camera is a DSLR and I could not live without my laptop.

So yes, I am a official Geek!

Getting personal gifts for him (the hubby) is always next to impossible. So when he came up to me and asked for a phone, how could I refuse. Admittedly it cost a small fortune but then I never seem to buy him anthing substantial. It always seems to be chocolates, ties and socks.

This is the phone I am getting him – click here, which apparently is an all singing all dancing phone costing more than my laptop!

Anyway… he ordered it early this morning and later on received an email saying he should buy the phone he just bought as it was the best in the galaxy. This made his day. Made mine too as he now “owes me one”!

I needed to get myself a usb drive to store some work on and my hubby gave me a purple one. I was made up with it and said that it was made for me because it was purple and made it feel feminine rather than just a gadget. He laughed at me and told me that usb drives can come in all forms and I should know better considering he has one in his watch. He told me that some of the weirdest include a Sushi USB drive, a Barbie and even a thumb! I think I will stick to the purple one (though the Barbie is tempting).

Ok.. I have made a great discovery… Our Wii is best fat burner and fitness thing ever. It is fun. It is competitive. It is challenging. It is encouraging. You can check your calories burnt. You can keep your time exercised. It actually helps you improve. It encourages you to return and to improve. And it even stops you over doing stuff. My only complaint, is that you can waste time changing from one item to another as this substantially adds to the time you spend. In other words to do 30 minutes of exercise… you need at least 45 minutes free though maybe even more. Still… it is worth it.

My son is so cute… he said we needed a ps3 keyboard for our Wii! It is amazing the power of advertising especially on a 4 / 5 year old. When I tried to explain it is only for PS3 and we don’t have one… his logical answer was to buy one! Considering we have a PS2 that is practically untouched… I don’t think so!  At least on the positive side, the Wii is a hit and well loved.

A friend recently purchased a couple of laptops. I was left amazed at the fact that she actually paid as much for a refurbished laptop as she would have for a new one. The laptops were for the kids admittedly but still I do not understand the logic. I do believe that one of them actually developed a fault within days. My suggestion was to complain but I am not sure how covered she is. If it is new, your consumer protection rights immediately kick in and you generally have a year warranty.

I got my laptop and am using it. I love it. It is a Lenovo blah blah. I know I should know the model and brand, but suffice to say other things were more important. Although just a regular black laptop, it actually has a textured top and gives it a uniqueness. It comes with windows 7 (which incidentally perhaps because I am not accustomed to it, I dislike). And it even has face recognition to let you access it. LOL, no-one can use it without my say so. I think that is so cool. And as for specs, it has enough to make my dear hubby jealous. I am not sure I like the textured mouse pad and I struggle with typing as it has a more old fashion touch typing feel and somehow I keep jumping around when typing. I do like my number pad at the side. It also has an integrated web-cam and that saves me carrying that extra equipment around. The only thing that I wish it had would be a 3 year laptop warranty and accidental damage (I do have 3 kids under age 5 after all), but a 1 year regular guarantee will just have to do and at the price I paid, I really cannot complain.

I need a new laptop as I keep having wireless issues. Mind you I am not sure it is my pc, but I cannot refuse the option to buy a new laptop! I have been looking around at some like the Asus and netbooks. I am in 2 minds about the net books. They are small and compact but they are technoligcally a step backwards from my current laptop. On the other hand they are more petite, pretty and very feminine.

What will I get, who knows? But watch this space….

I discovered a crack in my laptop. It is on the top of it when closed. I have no idea how it got there… I did not drop it or anything but it must have had an accident because there is very clearly a crack. Now from what I know… a stitch in time saves 9, however everything is disposable in todays world and I very much doubt it would be worth fixing. So I again need to get myself a new laptop. This is why I always go for the cheapest rather than things like laptop memory, grafics, ram, rom etc because I seem to constantly keep upgrading it. Perhaps next time I get accidental insurance. hah!

Hubby just said that we should back up all our computers. He thinks that at the very least we should do it on a yearly basis. I think he wants to go with an online backup because then they cannot be stolen or if lightening hits wiped out. But I like the idea of a portable hard disk or just copying to DVD but then I am not the techno geek! The only thing I do know is unlike shopaholic Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Sex in the City, I will er hopefully be protected!