Taking the plunge

Have you ever been burned when you take the plunge on new tech.

I have to say it wouldn't be the first for me. Years ago I bought an Atari Jaguar and it was expensive. The CD drive was equally expensive and cool and unfortunately both were massive failures.

I got a budget android tablet which goes maybe for 90 minutes before it switches off...'nuf said.

We got a laptop which cost us 400 Euro a few years back. The battery was poor (~1 hour)  and the video card sucked - it was fast with W8 (25 seconds to desktop) but the video card wasn't supported, hence sucked.

Nearly got burned with a Samsung galaxy S5 - didn't work for some reason with my sim card and I believe it was faulty. person I got it from was nice and refunded me.

Yesterday, after much angst my wife got me a Linx 1010. I've been wary but I've heard great things of the previous models. The 1010 being the latest model is something I wanted because I want a tablet and the surface being way out of my league price-wise, the linx being an affordable little beastie. The lure for me was the 2 full USB ports - I have a nice 2TB hard drive to use with it.

What do I want it for. Travelling, minecraft and  the odd bit of word processing and printing. Oh, and streaming from the Xbox One. I could stream sky from the xbox one via the linx to the TV we have upstairs using smartglass on my iPhone as a remote control... :D

My wife has an iPad and she loves it but I want PC apps - I want VLC, I want expandable storage and I want full word and I have 2010 lying waiting to be installed. I want to be able to put movies on it easily for travelling.

I hope this is not a whim.