iChoose

I have recently been in the market for a new laptop. My old laptop was beginning to limp along, and it did not take well to the 9 month journey around Asia and India that I took it on. Using a laptop on the beach may well sound like a nerdy dream, but the reality is that sand and salty air do nothing but reduce a computers lifespan!

Anyway, boasting aside, I have been in the market for a new device.

Now given the advances in touch screens, the release of the iPad 2 and given that this is driving force of this blog, I decided to go for a tablet of some sort. My sister in law has an original iPad which I have used, and I have previous experience of the HTC Windows, iPhone3 & 4, and Android mobile devices, I figured I would see what was on offer and purchase myself something.

As all good IT people know, before you even begin to look at buying something, in order to prevent the pure lusting for shiny new things taking over and driving your purchasing decisions, one should create a list of things that we would intend to do with the device.

Often I have been caught in the moment, and days later realised that what I have purchased does not do what I need, and been lumbered with a crappy but shiny device that will gather dust until it is past its use by date and is filed in my ever growing technology museum in the attic.

So here are the requirements

• Internet Access: Got to be the no.1 requirement really.
• Take Notes : I take a lot of notes and scribble a lot of designs. Since I stopped smoking, I have no fag packet and carry a pad into most meetings. I would love that pad to be electronic!
• Editing images and videos : As a keen amateur, I would like to edit photos on my new device, I use Photoshop elements for this.
• Games : I would like to be able to play games, simple as that…

So those are my requirements. Next post is what I may buy