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Old 10-02-2011, 11:17 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
Keeping costs low by buying one item... not necessarily, my ereader and tablet combined cost less than an iPad or any of the other big names tablets except the Fire... and that's no good for me because it's 7" Where's the worry about replacement... one "all purpose" item fails and you can't do a thing until replaced, one dedicated device fails and you can still use others to do other things until specific device replaced... and I have never had all dedicated devices fail simultaneously or become outdated in performing their task to require replacing several at same time but a GP device would do this at one go... I don't tend to grab the "latest & greatest" just because it's there, I tend to apply more simple criteria - do I need this or do I want this? Very different...

Each to his own but there will always be those who prefer dedicated devices toperform a task very well and others who want a multi-purpose device and accept that it is a "Jack of all Trades."
elcreative,
I didn't mean to imply that it was wrong to have a lot of devices, and in fact confessed that I had a big bookcase full, just that some people might be looking for machines that do more than one task to conserve their funds.
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