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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Mac Date: September 10, 2014, 2:47 pm
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[quote]I Buy and Sell a lot on eBay. As long as you buy from
someone that has close to 100% Positive feedback and numerous
sales indicating they are a Top Rated Seller, you are fine.
Besides that, you have a 45 day return policy to cover any
problems, in spite of sellers that say they don't offer returns.
Doesn't matter. You are covered by eBay. So, buying an iPod off
eBay isn't as nerve wracking as it would have been if this was
my first time on eBay.[/quote]
I would add, that the seller has a deep history. In other words,
the sellers numbers are high on quantity.
I'm just going by my recent experience (Amazon 3rd party
seller). Did have a good rating, but did not notice at the time,
they only sold a few things.
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Gawd Mac, you freakin' eediot
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Neumatic Date: September 10, 2014, 2:52 pm
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The current Best Buy price is $250. I was telling my mom about
that (she also loves her Classic) and we figure our Classics
have lasted about five years (and that's conservative). That's
fifty bucks a year and I use mine every single day. That's a
better deal than a computer and a TV, AND you're paying for the
convenience of not having to manage your iTunes all the time to
swap out the music in a little device.
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Neumatic Date: September 12, 2014, 5:31 pm
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Well, Apple recalled all their iPods still in the store, and the
price for a brand new iPod on Amazon from second-hand sellers is
already approaching five hundred god damn dollars. Which is
insane, given how freakin' cheap the iPod actually was to build.
You gotta figure Apple is going to have a gross of these
things, what are they going to do with them!? They can't take
them apart for parts because that's how they were made in the
first place, out of tons of spare parts.
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Neumatic Date: September 12, 2014, 6:26 pm
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Okay, update: I bit the bullet and bought a new iPod off Amazon
at the inflated price of $399 (thank god I got a birthday check
two weeks ago) because... well, I refuse to buy an "acceptable"
used iPod at original retail price and I definitely want a
replacement for when my current one bites the dust. Ideally,
that will be years down the line and my new untouched iPod will
keep (maybe I should put it in the fridge-- isn't that what
you're supposed to do?), but it also means that I'd eventually
have a dead iPod to tinker with-- to try and swap out the hard
drive, battery, and what have you and bring back from the dead.
There are instructions on line on how to do it, but I don't want
my music future to rest on that.
I imagine in the upcoming years, the demand for a music player
like this will be enough that maybe a little cottage industry
might pop up, making high-capacity MP3 players (someone on eBay
already makes iPods with 240 gigs of space) to fill the void.
Like how you can get these new consoles that play old Nintendo,
SNES and Genesis games. That would be great.
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 12, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Congrats on at least securing a backup. As for me, I will
definitely be on the lookout on eBay, but I will no way pay that
kind of money. I got more pressing needs (tablet that I can use
for art, blah blah blah, you already know my issues with that).
I will be checking on eBay and just wait it out for the time
being. Right now people are hording and trying to flip them at
bloated prices. Those prices will eventually fall and if I find
the right deal, I will for sure pull the trigger.
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Neumatic Date: September 12, 2014, 7:24 pm
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And to be fair, this is a lifestyle that is clearly difficult to
part with. So you're pretty lucky you don't have to.
I'm definitely hoping that the demand for these players might
lead to some interesting open-source homebrew projects in a
couple of years. I think about the possibilities of removable
SD cards, replacable batteries, stylish interface skins, etc...
now that we've got 3D printing, people can design their own
cases (something I'm sure was holding back the homebrew portable
market). We could be on the verge of something real neat. I'm
actually inspired to draw a couple concepts.
#Post#: 31617--------------------------------------------------
Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 13, 2014, 10:32 am
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[center]The Surface Pro 4 will come in the same physical
dimensions as the Surface Pro 3
HTML http://www.winbeta.org/news/surface-pro-4-will-come-same-physical-dimensions-surface-pro-3
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I am a bit surprised that the rumor (take it with a grain of
salt) has the Surface Pro 4 coming in the first quarter of 2015.
I was expecting at least a full calendar year before the newest
one to hit the stores. It remains to be seen if this will in
fact come with the much sought after Broadwell Chip from Intel
(very likely). I was expecting their to be a factory refresh,
which was what I was waiting for given the overheating issues of
SP3. So, with the first quarter right around the corner, I will
just put a pin in getting any kind of Surface Pro until then. As
for the next iterations of Surface Pro, even though I don't own
one, I have played with the SP3 a few times in stores and really
like the size. It's the perfect size out of them all so I am
happy they are sticking with the same dimensions for the SP4.
#Post#: 32840--------------------------------------------------
Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 10, 2015, 11:52 am
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[center]Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 with AnyPen
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PVuXo4HAM&list=PLp2e7UfInEgmB-5r4rtQOEsq-H-mNmQhk&index=27
Even though they are hyping this up as something "revolutionary"
with AnyPen, it really isn't. Sure, you can "now draw with a
fork", but the biggest and most vital thing missing is Pen
Pressure Sensitivity technology. All the line weight remains the
same.
#Post#: 32844--------------------------------------------------
Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Neumatic Date: January 10, 2015, 2:04 pm
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The HP Sprout. Tablet, touchscreen, 3D scanner, holy sh*t holy
sh*t HOLY SH*T!
[center]
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Re: Tablets and Handheld Devices (Formerly the Cintiq Thread)
By: Mac Date: January 10, 2015, 3:45 pm
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That was interesting.
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