{"id":5281,"date":"2011-05-13T01:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-04T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:09:13","slug":"tech-shopping-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/tech-shopping-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Shopping Rules of Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Translations:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Japanese<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Buying tech Smartly IS Difficult. Sam Grobart Reduced a lot of hard-Earned and complex wisdom to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Seven Rules of thumb<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in the New York Times. I WAS Pretty impressed with this list Because I think his Advice IS Sound and he WAS ABLE to reduce it to short rules of thumb. Here are his seven rules, each one a trade off, as annotated by me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When buying hi tech ….<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for RAM, not speed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> The speed of the computer chip does not matter; the attention-span or RAM memory does matter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for Messaging, not minutes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> On your phone, your Texting IS more expensive than your voice time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for components, not Cables.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Buy the best components, and the cheapest Cables.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for speed, not channels.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> For cable Internet, with enough speed you CAN Watch TV channels on the Internet for free.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for AppleCare, not MobileMe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> For Applefans, the Apple Insurance IS worth it, but Their Cloud service IS not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for screen size, not refresh rate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> On TV screens, bigger size Makes a difference while refresh rate does not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for sensor size, not pixel count.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> On today’s Cameras you’ll Have enough megapixels; better quality Comes from Larger sensors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Relative sensor sizes in Various camera Families form <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

. Those seven got me thinking about other tech shopping rules of thumb Here are a few others that come to mind:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for reliability, not Mileage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> On a car, you’ll Spend more of Repairs and maintaince over its lifetime than you Will on a difference in gas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for comfort, not Weight.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> A Bicycle’s feather Weight IS Moot once you add Water Bottle, a Bag, any extra clothes you Wear, while its comfort Never Disappears.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for foam, not down.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> The biggest difference in the Warmth of a Sleeping Bag IS the Insulation under you, not the down over you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Pay for glass, not shutters.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> In Professional Cameras, great Lenses endure, while the camera Bodies Change and Go OBSOLETE.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Any others?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From the comments (so far):<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pay for speakers, not the amp.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> – – – When Purchasing a Sound System, better quality speakers Will make more a difference than a better amp.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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