The past few days have been one overload after another. By this morning it was like: I need a break! So off I went - to Best Buy to scope out new electronics, and get away from the work day grind. I really wanted to see the Flip Mino camcorder. Alas, I was a bit disappointed. The Flip Mino HD sells for $279.00 with only an hour of recording time, and when the cam is full, you have to unload it before you can use it again. It also looks like a cheap toy. Even the sales person I talked to was down-selling it! In comparison: for $600.00, you can get a Sony HDR-CX12 AVCHD HD Handicam, with up to 5.5 hours of recording onto removable memory stick hard drives, zoom optics, and image stabilization, in a package that is not that much bigger than the Flip Mino HD! I mean, if you are going to spring for the bucks, wouldn't ya want something 10 times better for twice the price, that will last a while and not become obsolete tomorrow! Such a deal! That's how I think. If I'm going to get a tool, I'm going to get a TOOL, not a toy.
The other thing I noticed at Best Buy was how cheap laptops have become. For $600.00, I can get a laptop of any major brand with a Pentium Core 2 Duo processor, monster memory, and monster hard drive. Three years ago, I paid that ammount for my lumbering Dell Celleron D desk top.
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