What was your latest tech purchase? (v 2.0)

[Arcadio]

I bought yet another Google Chromecast.

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[Belegost]

Pre-ordered a Fire TV Stick. $20 was the right price point to induce involuntary purchase reflex.

 

[Chaotic42]

Samsung Galaxy S5, my first smart phone. I guess it's pretty neat.

 

[nickbits]

kindle voyage

 

[IronWing]

LED light bar. I think it has more transistors than my Kaypro II did.

 

[MongGrel]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Still waiting on em to get here, must be a very slow boat from China

 

[Away]

Asus Chromebook C300.

 

[adairusmc]

GoPro Hero 4 Silver

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Does a microwave count?

 

[lxskllr]

Samsung Galaxy S5, my first smart phone. I guess it's pretty neat.

Same. It's both an enjoyment and a pissoff. I like having a computer in my pocket, but I resent the restrictions.

 

[brianmanahan]

macbook pro retina 15"

 

[Chaotic42]

Same. It's both an enjoyment and a pissoff. I like having a computer in my pocket, but I resent the restrictions.

Yep. The screen is awesome and the fact that it can take 4K video is great. I still just end up using it to text most of the time though. I don't really use any apps beside the ESPN fantasy football app, which is basically just a web page.

 

[NutBucket]

Note4 arrived on Thursday night. It's annoying that some features from the S3 were removed...simple stuff too.

 

[Arcadio]

Samsung Galaxy S5, my first smart phone. I guess it's pretty neat.

Member of a tech forum since 2001 and this is your first smartphone? Why? (if I may ask)

 

[BurnItDwn]

well, I didnt make the purchase, but Im paying for it. My fiancee bought a new phone for her mom. Now, she did wait until her moms old phone was like 4 or 5 years old, and she bough a low end smartphone "with slide keyboard" because her mom cant figure out touchscreen for typing. I believe its an LG.

Last thing "I" bought, was probably the cheap 4 drive NAS box and some drives, I didnt feel like dealing with my 10 year old server any more with a bunch of little 500gb drives and instead have a big slow raid5 in the NAS.

 

[lxskllr]

Member of a tech forum since 2001 and this is your first smartphone? Why? (if I may ask)

I'm in the same boat. I didn't have a phone of any kind for the longest time, and I'm leery of carrying around a tracking device. I needed a phone for work, and a smartphone is especially useful for transmitting/viewing data.

I still don't like being tracked, and I don't like having to jump through hoops to use hardware the way I wish, but that's the nature of current mobile. I could just as easily drop it again. I do like the form factor though. It's even better than the 7" tablet I used to use as my bs machine. I could see using a smartphone as a mini tablet, and not even having phone service on it. That's probably what I'll do if I stop requiring phone, and anywhere(or as "anywhere" as Sprint gets :^D ) data.

 

[Ken g6]

Mediasonic HomeWorX HW150PVR ATSC HD converter box with recording, HDMI output. My latest plan for recording TV. It's working pretty well with a 32GB USB drive.

Which is good, because the Seagate 3TB external hard drive I was using with my laptop for recording just died.

 

[SKORPI0]

Canon PowerShot SX50 (50% off) at Target for 214.99+tax. 32GB memory card $18+tax. :awe:
A nice upgrade to my 8 years old Canon Rebel XTi.

 

[rommelrommel]

Casio PRW-3000T watch, solar charging, shock resist, altimeter, barometer, compass, temperature sensors, and syncs time via Casio's world time transmitters. Neat shit, should go a decade or more without a battery change as long as it gets occasional exposure to light.

 

[brianmanahan]

Canon PowerShot SX50 (50% off) at Target for 214.99+tax. 32GB memory card $18+tax. :awe:

noice, i love my sx40

 

[Kadarin]

iPhone 6...

Early next year I might buy a retina iMac.

 

[Ken g6]

Member of a tech forum since 2001 and this is your first smartphone? Why? (if I may ask)

I didn't get my first smartphone until a year ago. For several years I was on a Verizon loyalty program with my dumbphone, which I almost never used, for $25/month. I also hate monthly payments - I don't have cable for instance. Then I had to use the phone more for awhile, so I upgraded to the $50/month plan and couldn't go back. At that point I decided to get more for my money and got an unlimited 3G plan (1GB 4G, but I don't have that here) with T-Mobile for the same $50/month. (If you know about cheaper plans with unlimited Internet and tethering, I'm all ears.)

 

[bbhaag]

Pre-ordered a Fire TV Stick. $20 was the right price point to induce involuntary purchase reflex.

Same here. Just put the order in this morning.

 

[ultimatebob]

Nothing recently, but I bought myself a 15" Retina Macbook Pro for my birthday a few months ago. It puts every other laptop I've ever had before to shame.

 

[TridenT]

Bought some headphones about 2 months ago. Sennheiser HD558's.

That's my only tech purchase in quite a while.