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October 16, 2003

Birthday Money

Today is my birthday, and since I'm notoriously difficult to shop for, my family usually just sends me money. I've accumulated a couple hundred dollars so far, but I'm having difficulty deciding on what to pick up. The next big thing I have my eye on is a new Handspring Treo 600, but I have to wait until AT&T supports it, which is likely to be several months. I'm considering:

Of course, what I really want is a new 15" Powerbook, but I'll need a lot more checks and gift certificates before that happens. If you had about $200 or $300 to blow before the end of the week, what would you do? (Hint: I already have an iPod and a GBA SP.)

Posted by cantrell at October 16, 2003 02:05 PM | References

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Posted by: mike chambers at October 16, 2003 02:08 PM

Tivo Series 2 and a copy of O'Reilly's Hacking Tivo

Posted by: Rob Brooks-Bilson at October 16, 2003 02:16 PM

I forgot to mention that I recently got a Tivo, but I don't have the O'Reilly book.

Posted by: Christian Cantrell at October 16, 2003 02:21 PM

Hey, it's my birthday too!! So far I've gotten a couple of DVDs from my girlfriend (I too am rather difficult to shop for). Since I work on web development quite a bit as well, my Xbox seems to be collecting a nice layer of dust. Probably, the smartest purchase would be the shoes. I've seen those Shox, they're pretty damn nice. Anywho, have a great birthday! :)

Posted by: Todd Fraser at October 16, 2003 02:34 PM

I'd say go for the PS2.

Posted by: Raymond Camden at October 16, 2003 03:51 PM

Happy birthday! I got my Treo 600 on Monday. I think it's pretty cool but I've had too much damned work to even pick the thing up.. combine that with being used to the Treo 300 menu and I essentially don't know how to use my phone :)

How about a digicam of sorts? Those are always cool and handy.. Gateway's got a sweet MPEG4 camera that records only to SD.. it'a $199.00 :)

I'm getting one of those next week.. haha. .seriously it's all for work ;)

Posted by: Greg Narain at October 16, 2003 03:52 PM

Let me know how you like your camera. That's not a bad idea. I have a digital SLR (Canon D30). It's great, but big and heavy and doesn't do MPEG4. My digital video camera is actually an 8mm, so that tells you how old it is.

Posted by: Christian Cantrell at October 16, 2003 04:03 PM

Happy Birthday!

GO for an XBox!

Posted by: Peter Tilbrook at October 16, 2003 09:16 PM

Christian: I'll second Peter's XBox recommendation... my PS2 has been virtually unused since the XBox and Gamecube were released. Plus, putting money in Microsoft's pocket means you can pick up a copy of Halo today, and grab a copy of the upgraded GTA3/Vice City combo that will be released on Xbox here in a few weeks.

Posted by: Roger Benningfield at October 17, 2003 08:45 AM

Dont get the PS2! Wait for the PSX (soon to be released) that will have DVR functionality built in.

For 200 bucks, you could put a dent into a nice DV camcorder....unless you've got one?!

Posted by: Alex Sherwood at October 17, 2003 09:57 AM

SLIMP3 - http://www.slimdevices.com/
Definetly one of the coolest things I've ever bought; I actually just got a second one for a growing whole house audio project.

Posted by: Matt at October 17, 2003 09:59 AM

I already did blow mine on the 15" Powerbook and the iSight. I am using the iSight on my XP machine whilest they are building my powerbook. it is a great camera so far. You wont get as much use out of it as a ps2, but it depends entirely on taste

Posted by: Timothy Johnsn at October 17, 2003 01:11 PM

Get the iSight. If you haven't tried one they're fantastic!

Posted by: Scott Boms at October 17, 2003 01:46 PM