What Tech Companies Like to Do:

I decided to write this after I saw a couple of my classmates relate their blogs to tablets (Laurel)  (Ji-Eun).

What are tech companies really good at doing?

Making me feel like my laptop is severely outdated.

Currently the laptop I own is the Thinkpad Edge 14, purchased a year ago. I used to think it was the best thing when I first bought it. Now?

“It’s alright, I guess.”

Recently I decided I needed to buy a tablet for school, because my laptop isn’t good enough. Makes sense, right?

I mean, of course I need a tablet to look at pdf files, surf the web for homework, with its awesome battery life right? I need a tablet to be productive right?

I looked at all of the current “tier 1” “big name” tablets, such as:

Samsung, Toshiba, Motorola, Acer, Lenovo, ASUS.

The thing about these tablets are, They’re all basically the same. Same 10.1″ capacitive touch screen, all running on Android 3.2 Honeycomb (No iOS for me, thanks) as well as a Tegra 2 processor. The only thing that differentiates each product its its form factor, ports, thinness, and accessories.

These tablets made my computer feel that much smaller.

Then I realized a new line of tablets were coming, installed with the NEW TEGRA 3 PROCESSOR, said to be 5 times faster than the Tegra 2.

The one I had my eye on was the Transformer Prime by ASUS. Plus I can turn it into a laptop, which is cool.

Then I thought to myself, what if I want more computing power?

Quickly my necessities changed, and immediately started looking at the new ultrabook lineups by ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba, and Acer.

Now my laptop looks like garbage.

I rationalized myself out of this tech consumer trap, at least for now.

We’ll see what happens in 2012.