Technology for Traveling
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@scottalanmiller
If they both have iPads - why get a Kindle Fire? -
@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
If they both have iPads - why get a Kindle Fire?- because they are not from us
- the iPads are huge and heavy, the Kindles are small and light
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huh, if iPads are huge and heavy, what is the Chromebook?
How old are your girls?
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@Dashrender said:
huh, if iPads are huge and heavy, what is the Chromebook?
How old are your girls?
They are 4 and 6. And they are big time gamers.
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The Chromebooks are actually more portable than the iPads.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The Chromebooks are actually more portable than the iPads.
How is that?
Same size and weight but less fragile.
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Will the Chromebooks play all the games they like?
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What about a Surface? where you can drop the keyboard?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Will the Chromebooks play all the games they like?
Chromebooks don't play games. All games will be on the Steam Machine and the Yoga 2.
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@scottalanmiller said:
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- Family Devices: Steam Machine, Kindle Fire TV Gaming, iPad Mini
- Scott: HP Folio Linux Mint
- Dominica: Samsung Chromebook 2
- Liesl: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Windows 10, 3DS, Kindle Fire
- Luciana: Acer Chromebook, Kindle Fire, 3DS?
So many variables. What will be useful, how much does it weigh, do we really need that much?
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%BOLD% absolutely!
I tend to have a lot of backup gadget devices with me. Typically N*2 where N is amount of kids in a family.
- I'd add external recharge batteries!
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@KOOLER said:
- I'd add external recharge batteries!
A must for the full time traveller, there are some really slick LiPo packs on ebay these days.
I'm working on a project to build my own, but I prefer 18650's as I get them for free.
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Batteries are tough for us because of the continuous issues with weight. It's not just that we don't want to carry any more, which we don't, but also that we are loaded right to the airline weight restrictions every time.
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It might be worth it to add one extra bag that you have to pay for to allow you 50 extra lbs of stuff. Since you're flights are limited (so it seems) to 2-4 times a year, that extra expense seems worth it to me.
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@Dashrender If @scottalanmiller isn't paying for extra bags already then I'm impressed as heck. He's literally moving his whole house and family around!
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@Dashrender said:
It might be worth it to add one extra bag that you have to pay for to allow you 50 extra lbs of stuff. Since you're flights are limited (so it seems) to 2-4 times a year, that extra expense seems worth it to me.
I wish it was that limited. Seems to always be a bit more than that. If it was only paying for an extra bad that was needed, that would be a no brainer. But our luggage size is EXACTLY what can fit into an average taxi or rental car. So if we add anything we risk not being able to leave teh airport with it. In Nicaragua we were so close that we really thought that we were going to have to leave bags behind AND they had already brought a bigger than average vehicle!
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender If @scottalanmiller isn't paying for extra bags already then I'm impressed as heck. He's literally moving his whole house and family around!
We don't... we have to carry a scale with us and carefully rebalance luggage to make it "just make it." Each bag is measured right to 49.5-49.9 pounds to make it work.
We got screwed yesterday because we flew a different airlines where only 40lbs not 50lbs per bag was allowed. So we had to squeeze as much as we could into three and get one down below 40lbs and only pay penalties on three. $90 of penalties because of that small change.
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It wouldn't be good for gaming, but for general use, you should check out a Lenovo ideacentre Stick 300 Computer
http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ideacentre-Stick-Computer-90F20000US/dp/B014644NPI/
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@anonymous said:
It wouldn't be good for gaming, but for general use, you should check out a Lenovo ideacentre Stick 300 Computer
http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ideacentre-Stick-Computer-90F20000US/dp/B014644NPI/
Definitely not getting anything from Lenovo.
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We ended up in Texas sooner than we had planned and since we are here for a while have some time to test some things out. We got an Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition and a FireTV Stick with voice remote - the latter was on sale so basically we got a free stick for the cost of the extra remote. We are going to be testing these out in our Galveston condo for the next month. The gaming unit has already arrived and got hooked up in the living room last night. So far so good. The stick should arrive around Tuesday and we are going to hook that up in our bedroom. Hopefully these will cover a lot of bases for us. They were cheap and while they are pretty limited, they seem to do a lot of what we want around being able to watch shows.
