Happy New Year fellow CRIMPers!

Posted by jimspoon
Jan 5, 2014 at 11:58 AM

Happy New Year!

I continue to plug away on my little 11.6” Acer Aspire One AO756 notebook running Windows 8. Ecco Pro is still my program for typing in my stream of notes during the day. I toss it in my “man bag” and take it just about everywhere I go. I even make notes with it in my car. I leave it running if the next note is coming up quickly, but if it’s going to be a while, I put it to sleep. It wakes up pretty quickly when I need to make a note. This way I don’t run out of battery ,and this is only a 3 (or 4?) cell battery.

Funny thing is I got an amazing deal on a Lenovo S230 “Twist” notebook/tablet - something like $330 USD for a refurb, Core i5 cpu, gorgeous 12.5 IPS display, etc. But I still mostly use the little Acer - the size is perfect, i like the little keyboard. The only thing I miss on the Acer is the touchscreen, which brings in a whole new level of ease of use.

I have an HP Touchpad from 2011 ($149 for 32GB tablet during the discontinuation fire sale). But I don’t use it much now because I carry the Acer with me now instead of the Touchpad. It’s just easier to get my notes into Ecco by typing them directly into Ecco, but I can’t do that on an android device. Of course when I switch my note taking software, it could easily cause a change in the hardware I use.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, which is amazing, and I haven’t begun to use it anywhere near its full potential.

For my desktop, it is waiting to be built! Some months ago I bought an Asus Z77 motherboard + i5 3570K cpu + 240GB Samsung SSD. Haven’t found the time to put it together. Nuts !!

I am impressed by the praise for the MacBook Air but I am a longtime Applephobe and tightwad.

@Alexander, you might have some fun rooting and “romming” your Experia X10 mini pro. It seems you can at least be running Android 4.1 on it. Lots of possibilities here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-x10-mini/mini-pro-dev
For your Galaxy Chat you can go here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087316