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emai7s2 · 08-13-2011, 12:05 PM

Hi mgmueller,

I love reading your comments but feel a bit guilty that I am benefiting from all the money you have put into your gizmo collection over the past few years.

I take another approach - I try to limit myself to about 1 new gizmo per year. Rather than buying the latest and greatest, I try to get what I consider the best of last generation technology. These gizmos generally have all the bugs worked out, are reliable, and are available at a fraction of the price of the newest generation.

Towards the end of the year, I expect there to be a veritable flood of updated and new machines - Nokia WP7 smartphones, iPad 3, iOS5, Android 4.0, new TouchPad hardware, Android compatibility for the Playbook, and so on. That will make all the current 'must have' products relatively obsolete.

Assuming it's now December 2011 and all the updates I just mentioned have actually occurred, what do you think will be the 'Best of last generation technology ...' in 2011? In other words, something that will continue to work well and doesn't really need to be updated.

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emai7s2 Connoisseur Posts: 97 Karma: 128170 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Palm & PPC	Best of last generation technology ... Hi mgmueller, I love reading your comments but feel a bit guilty that I am benefiting from all the money you have put into your gizmo collection over the past few years. I take another approach - I try to limit myself to about 1 new gizmo per year. Rather than buying the latest and greatest, I try to get what I consider the best of last generation technology. These gizmos generally have all the bugs worked out, are reliable, and are available at a fraction of the price of the newest generation. Towards the end of the year, I expect there to be a veritable flood of updated and new machines - Nokia WP7 smartphones, iPad 3, iOS5, Android 4.0, new TouchPad hardware, Android compatibility for the Playbook, and so on. That will make all the current 'must have' products relatively obsolete. Assuming it's now December 2011 and all the updates I just mentioned have actually occurred, what do you think will be the 'Best of last generation technology ...' in 2011? In other words, something that will continue to work well and doesn't really need to be updated.