Buy only the gadget you need. Generally I let other people be the guinea pigs for the latest products. Instead of rushing out to buy the iPad when it first came out, I held out, until I realized I could buy a cheaper but more powerful (than the 1st gen iPad) no-name Android tablet that I could afford to lose to a mugger!
If I'm not mistaken, LG and Sony were the two big consumer electronics companies that Apple dared not sue because they built phones or hardware prototypes that predated the classic iPhone design, e.g. the LG Prada (announced Dec 2006). Maybe it's become an also-ran like Nokia in the face of the Apple-Samsung juggernaut, but LG's definitely not a junk brand. (I'm not saying Apple ripped off the LG design, only that LG had a design team competent enough to independently produce something that came close to the iPhone ideal.)
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Is this "good-bye OEM motherboards"?
Maybe.. Intel has done just as much damage to the hobbyist computer culture as Microsoft or Apple has maybe even more.
Why? Intel has been very supportive of the most popular hobbyist OS, Linux!
Buy only the gadget you need. Generally I let other people be the guinea pigs for the latest products. Instead of rushing out to buy the iPad when it first came out, I held out, until I realized I could buy a cheaper but more powerful (than the 1st gen iPad) no-name Android tablet that I could afford to lose to a mugger!
If I'm not mistaken, LG and Sony were the two big consumer electronics companies that Apple dared not sue because they built phones or hardware prototypes that predated the classic iPhone design, e.g. the LG Prada (announced Dec 2006). Maybe it's become an also-ran like Nokia in the face of the Apple-Samsung juggernaut, but LG's definitely not a junk brand. (I'm not saying Apple ripped off the LG design, only that LG had a design team competent enough to independently produce something that came close to the iPhone ideal.)
Neither is America;)