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| pbj:
How's it compare to an iPad? I had the original Kindle Fire and it was... adequate for its time. My iPad is going nuts with phantom screen touches and makes it very difficult to lay in bed and post here at 2am. The original screen turned into a spiderweb after I brought it inside from reading in the Houston heat. I had it replaced for $70 and honestly got 6 good months out of it, so not too salty. |
| BadMouth:
Prime Day=unwanted inventory clearance I picked up a life straw for $10 to throw in my tiny survival kit that I'll never use. PBJ, have you heard about http://www.autopartsclass.com/ ? (vehicles all they way back to 1995) I'm debating on whether to bother with it. Still waiting on free cans of Tuna and Vitamix vouchers. |
| pbj:
Nope, hadn't heard about that. Some of my expenses qualified on old vehicles, but why the hell would I keep maintenance records around for a vehicle I sold 10 years ago? Only things I hoard are debt and stuff I haul out of the dumpster. |
| dkersten:
I was about to pull the trigger on a new DeWalt miter saw but I waited for Prime day and I got $25 off of it, so it wasn't a total waste. I also picked up 2 more Echo Dots for $49, which is basically half price. I was eyeing the cheap SD cards and the discounted Shield TV box thinking about buying another one for another media player. The Shield uses the same hardware as the Nintendo Switch and does a good job playing games, but I use it for playing my media in the theater and in the living room, it blows away other boxes and sticks and is the only one that can do Atmos and 4k MKV playback (although the new Dune player is supposed to be able to do it as well). Anyway, a weak Prime day, but I saved a few dollars. No free crap though, lol. |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pbj on July 18, 2018, 09:43:34 am ---How's it compare to an iPad? I had the original Kindle Fire and it was... adequate for its time. My iPad is going nuts with phantom screen touches and makes it very difficult to lay in bed and post here at 2am. The original screen turned into a spiderweb after I brought it inside from reading in the Houston heat. I had it replaced for $70 and honestly got 6 good months out of it, so not too salty. --- End quote --- Well obviously an iPad is better, but not by much. It's a 720p screen on the 8 and I believe 1080p on the 10 but they claim the screen is "tougher than the ipad". I haven't had it long enough to tell, but the screen does seem to have gorilla glass or something similar you wouldn't expect on a cheaper tablet. The camera sucks and the speakers aren't very loud. Other than that it's great. The ui is much improved from earlier models and Alexa is actually helpful. It's android os only a bit cleaner and snappier. I don't know how powerful it really is, but I threw goat simulator on there and it seems to handle it, so I guess the unreal engine runs ok. It works for reading well, but I think I'm going to have to install another reader app. Amazon's annoyingly doesn't let you zoom with pinches and pulls like virtually every other pdf reader does. |
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