So living on a boat makes you want things to be kind of smaller just in general, because of the space issue of a 28 foot sailboat. While it's much bigger than the 25 footer, you still have to work with the space at hand and we filled part of it with a sea fridge.
HPLP (Hetero Platonic Life Partner) and I went to CostCo yesterday afternoon to get a few things and walked out with tiny amazing cheap lappy tablet thingys on her dime. The kind that the keyboard comes off and it's a tablet, then you stick it back on and it's a lappy.
Cool, but so what, right?
More below the Dooblydoo.
Neither of us has had a new compy in years, and we both run on hand me downs - or did until yesterday. So we had no idea of how much things have changed until we plugged the little suckers in. George is an Aspire Switch 10 for those who want to know. Cheap but damn.
George is literally half the size of my lappy. He has the touch screen thing I didn't get before but now like a lot, removable keyboard, and is designed to be used with an external drive. But holy crap. He's so much faster than Lappy at everything and I can get internet here in the boat without an antenna.
We both can at the same time - which has never happened before. George actually plays videos without lagging. I caught up on my shows in bed while HPLP slept for work - she gets up at an obscene hour. And browsers don't crash. The keyboard feels a little cramped still but I'll get used to it - I've used much smaller on my Casio pocket word processor back in the day.
The power and connection of this little tiny thing just astounds me - and George is the cheapo one. The smaller cheap tablet I have is dedicated to books only - basically a poor man's Kindle - but it's just the right size for that and was its intended purpose. It's not got a name for some reason. George is the new portable brain.
Lappy is being retired for older games and occasional downloads for a larger screen experience but will largely be tucked away. The table can be a table again. I feel like the internet is brand new.