#78 - Why can't I have the latest toys?

A good customer just purchased a new digital camera from PCSS. Its the latest model of the camera the wife and I dearly enjoy. To say the least, I'm highly jealous of the new camera. It has twice the megapixels (not a biggie), a longer zoom (that is nice), quicker response (also nice) and image stabilization (huge feature!). The camera is the Canon SD800IS. It costs about the same as my camera did and is the same size.

As I have said before on this site, megapixels aren't a big deal. The best my printer can do is a bit over 3 megapixels. Anything more then that can only be used for blowing up pictures and my printer is limited to 8.5"x11" size. Longer zoom is always good as long as you don't lose any focus or speed. Quicker response is great. It means you can take your next picture more quickly. Image stabilization allows you or your subject to move and you won't get a blurry pictures. Great for sports, kids, pets and windy days. This is a big item when you are indoors and trying to take a picture without flash. This is the key important feature and worth the slight premium Canon charges in their digital cameras with this feature.

My XP laptop is great but I'm selling better models to most customers today. Bigger screen, faster processor, more USB ports. Oh well, since I just purchased the Vista laptop, I'm probably out of the laptop market for a while. My Ultra desktop PC just keeps on trucking. Its old, noisy and big. It's had the motherboard, hard drive and power supply replaced so its probably good for another year. Now my monitor is a beautiful 19" LCD. They make them bigger, but not better. Besides my desktop is full and there is absolutely no more room there.

My latest two toys are a 1 tetrabyte (1000 gigabyte) network external hard drive. I can access this drive from any PC in the house and store pictures, music, video and other backups. My Mini Mac even talks fluently with this wonderful backup system. My other new toy is a 4GB USB flash drive. I backup MY Documents to that drive and keep it with me all the time.

So don't feel sorry for me. I may envy your new purchase, but I have too many toys to try and keep up!