Good for: Coolness factor, surprisingly convenient option of "touching the screen" to do what you want
Not so good for: Older techno-phobes, Windows 8 annoying interface
Things have been a bit quiet on my side for the last week and a bit. Reason being, I was first getting ready for and am now on, a flying visit to Malaysia! Being a true Malaysian who lives abroad, I have 2 interesting items on my agenda: Eating and shopping. :P
I'll save eating for another post, but today I went shopping with my family.
First I was dazzled by the colours clothes in F.O.S., and eventually I bought a touchscreen notebook. I am not keen on Apple products, and do not own or use any computers other than my work machine, and my mini laptop at home. So this is my primary means of storing data, tracking training and social-media-ing. My criteria of selection was coolness, small(and light)ness and ability to transfer and process training data and pictures.
I first looked at a tablet with a keyboard option, but was told that whilst it appeared to be equivalent to a laptop, a tablet is not capable of supporting special software that I use regularly such as Adobe Acrobat, Garmin Training Centre, and Suunto Movescount. It was "USB capable" but only had one USB port. And it did not have an SD card reader. Good to know. That just rendered it incapable of fulfilling 60% of my requirements. So it was back to a more traditional laptop option in the end. But with a touchscreen, hah! It had to be cool in some way, right?!?
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