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Help Convince Me Not To
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Help Convince Me Not To
So I have a little expendable income and I want to buy a toy.

I know I don't need it, but every now and again I get a bug up my butt and then my rationalization engine starts running full speed.

I want to buy a tablet. I don't have one, have never had one, but I think it would be useful. Everything I read, however, tells me this is just a toy with no real practical capabilities. If I buy one, it won't be Crapple. It'll be a continuation of my fealty to the Google Overlords, with the Pixel C. Now, tell my why I shouldn't buy a tablet. Or if you have one and use it a lot, tell me why I should.

My Pros:
1) My laptop is heavy and I could carry this to school instead. (I can SSH into my linux box from school)
2) I'd use it instead of my phone while I'm at home
3) It would be better for media than my laptop
4) Easier to take to work for schoolwork.

My cons:
1) It is 100% a non-essential. I could just save the $600, or spend it on my vacay.
2) Really, that's a big one. I don't need it. But I waaaaannnts it.
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#2
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
I have no opinion other than Pro #1 makes no sense. To heavy for the man of steel?

If I were you I'd go with what ever Tanner thinks. BaWooooooooooooooooo.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#3
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
I haven't had a vacation since 2011, and that was a 3 day weekend.

So I'd hope to vicariously enjoy any time I might get you to take off and go somewhere and have fun.
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#4
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
I won't convince you not to.

I bought one last year and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since.

Buy it.

Use it.

Enjoy it.

Your Precious!
Dying to live, living to die.
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#5
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
oh, just remembered, I had West Nile Fever in 2014 and was incapacitated for weeks with it.

That was sort of kinda like a vacation, if you want to count it.
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#6
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
Buy a lighter Laptop...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#7
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
(July 10, 2016 at 10:39 pm)Alex K Wrote: Buy a lighter Laptop...

That's only for arsonists.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#8
RE: Help Convince Me Not To
Tbh, if mine weren't old and clunky, I'd use it way more. It's fantastically more convenient than the phone except photography. But I'm a heavy reader and use mine for books and Pinterest and feedly.
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RE: Help Convince Me Not To
What I'm saying is that if you think you will use it, get it.
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#10
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Quote:If I buy one, it won't be Crapple.

u wot m8

*triggered*
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