Post pictures of your latest purchase

[HoosierDaddy]

Wife bought a new laptop. I never heard of the DY brand but it has a nice screen, lots of ports and seems fast enough with a 8th gen i5, 8GB DDR4 and an SSD.



yes, I know its an HP

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I bought some 256GB USB 3.1 flash drives to use as recovery drives (including a full image) of the boot drives of our PCs.

If you want to do something similar you might want different drives because:

(1) the metal is slick as wet soap and the tapered shapes make it virtually impossible to pick up from a flat surface. I had to slide them off the edge and catch them as they fell. LoL Probably can pick up if laid upside down.

(2) even Sharpie ink doesn't stick. So I'll need to use dabs of paint (hope that sticks) and memorize what paint goes with what PC (maybe put a dab of the paint on the PCs?).

(3) really bizarre bench-marking (see below). Same on all 3 on different PCs, different USB 3 controllers on a PC. Other USB 3 flash drives bench-mark fine all of those ways.

 

[worldspy99]

My Prime Day purchase.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Finally.

Interestingly enough, I put in on my wrist and felt "meh". This might one of those "it'll grow on me purchases". By comparison, the S3 classic felt like "yes!" when I put in on the wrist.

Review is coming later.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Finally.

Interestingly enough, I put in on my wrist and felt "meh". This might one of those "it'll grow on me purchases". By comparison, the S3 classic felt like "yes!" when I put in on the wrist.

Review is coming later. View attachment 141162

Initial impressions show there isn't that much difference between this and the S3 classic. The improvements are subtle, but welcomed. It feels and looks flatter and wider than the S3 classic, which feels narrower but higher on the wrist. I do prefer the styling of the S3 classic though.

Fossil though from a design perspective, kills these two. Those "sit well" on my wrist, having that premium weighted feeling. A Gen 3 Fossil Q Explorist with a rotating bezel would be killer as F.

Good with the purchase. If I was still staying with the 20mm straps I would have gotten the black version.

 

[raycpl]

Something useful when on the go

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Something useful when on the go

I'm upgrading my work bag soon. This looks really good though.

 

[raycpl]

It's more for shutterbugs. Enough compartments for bits and pieces of accessories..

 

[Laura Knotek]

It's more for shutterbugs. Enough compartments for bits and pieces of accessories..

It looks like it would be great for me to put in laptop, mouse, power cords, tablet, headphones and any other gear I take with me.

 

[raycpl]

It will take in a small device like surface go or a tablet.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Replacement finally arrived.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Replacement finally arrived. View attachment 141203

Excellent! I hope you have better luck with this one.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Excellent! I hope you have better luck with this one.

Thanks. I'm waiting for the nano coating I bought (that in theory works for cell phone and tablet screens) to try on it to see about the water resistance. In the meantime, I'll use it as normal.

That's my biggest knock with the alta line was that it was lim, but never water resistant.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

New work bag. I was thinking about the medium, but something says this (small) should work just fine.

 

[Laura Knotek]

New work bag. I was thinking about the medium, but something says this (small) should work just fine. View attachment 141215

What are the dimensions of the small one?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

What are the dimensions of the small one?

5.91" x 15.35" x 11.81"

 

[HeyCori]

Lenovo Smart Clock! Seems a bit silly, I know, but Best Buy had it on sale for $49 plus I had an additional $5 credit. Solid timing as the sound on my other Google speaker died out about two weeks ago. it was an Insignia speaker I got for free but I liked that it had an LCD screen so I could quickly check the time. The Lenovo should make for a good replacement since it too has an LCD screen.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Lenovo Smart Clock! Seems a bit silly, I know, but Best Buy had it on sale for $49 plus I had an additional $5 credit. Solid timing as the sound on my other Google speaker died out about two weeks ago. it was an Insignia speaker I got for free but I liked that it had an LCD screen so I could quickly check the time. The Lenovo should make for a good replacement since it too has an LCD screen.

View attachment 141216

That's a cool looking clock.

 

[HeyCori]

It's alright. Screen could stand to be a lot better, especially given the price. But I did get it for a fraction of the normal cost so I don't want to complain too much. I'm also not impressed with the speaker quality, but I also knew that before buying it. This is more of a thing one buys to have... well... an alarm clock with the added bonus of being a smart device.

 

[Laura Knotek]

It's alright. Screen could stand to be a lot better, especially given the price. But I did get it for a fraction of the normal cost so I don't want to complain too much. I'm also not impressed with the speaker quality, but I also knew that before buying it. This is more of a thing one buys to have... well... an alarm clock with the added bonus of being a smart device.

It sounds like it's worthwhile, since you got it at a discounted price.