All I want for Christmas is... [part 2]

 

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 16 Dec 2002 at 16:17

What piece of computing technology would you most like to get your hands on this Christmas? Here is the wish-list of another of the writers you've seen in the news section this year - online editor Alun Williams

Wishing for...

I still do not have a laptop. My old PC at home is still functioning perfectly well (no wonder the IT recession is continuing, what with me holding on to a four year old machine). To move with the times I suppose I should wish for an expensive tablet PC - the Toshiba Portege 3500 catches my eye.

I also quite fancy a digital camera. I'm spoilt for choice in this respect, with both PC Pro and Computer Buyer having done recent Labs tests.

But what I really want for Christmas, however, is a reasonably priced and moderately sized MP3 player. I've settled on the Nomad MuVo from Creative. Nice and small and substitutable as removable storage. At £99 it is not cheap. And 64Mb doesn't represent a lot of music - not for the epic extended guitar solos I listen to - but I can not justify spending an extravagant £250 on the chunkier iPod. Perhaps I should wait for the New Year, and the UK availability of the 128Mb version. Perhaps I should just skip Christmas this year...

Bought

An excellent little 32Mb Disgo removable USB storage device was an early purchase this year and a Kodak EasyShare CX4230 was bought for my brother. A more recent sub-£1 purchase from Maplin was a converter for a stereo jack to help digitally record my old LPs. Seventy-four pence, I believe. Excellent value.