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It's mine, allll mine.

Went to someone's house to evaluate a problem with their MacBook, they thought the hard drive crashed. Sure enough, it did... but she still had AppleCare on it. So I told her that she can just call them up or take it to the Apple store in Fresno where she bought it. I had told her earlier that I was out of a job after she had asked if I worked today. So she asked me why I didn't just charge her for the evaluation and replacing the drive myself, and I just told her that it went against my ethics to do that to someone. While I was there, she was playing with a Kindle Fire, and asked if I knew anything about them, because she wasn't liking it (had just bought it earlier in the week), and that she was thinking about just getting an iPad. I should mention that I'm pretty sure these people are loaded, based on the house and everything else. As I was leaving, she asked if I wanted the Fire, because she didn't know what she'd do with it after she got the iPad. I obviously jumped all over that. :24:

So now I have a nearly brand new Kindle Fire, for free, simply because I'm an apparently honorable person. :cheerleader:

It's pretty sweet so far... the interface is pretty slick, and obviously very different from the default Android one. My main gripe with it so far is the fact that it's freaking heavy for its size.
 
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This thing is freaking sweet. Though the location of the power button and headphone jack seems a little odd to me. The Amazoned Android interface takes a lot of getting used to like I said earlier... It's more restrictive than iOS even.

Video playback is great, I've been streaming Netflix movies on it. The screen can get incredibly bright, but lowers enough to be comfortable for reading.

The other gripe is a complete lack of actual buttons... The only physical button it has is the power button, everything else is UI driven. I also had some wifi problems last night, but they cleared up soon enough that I wasn't sure if it was the device or my router.
 

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FYI, it makes posting from the bath so much easier. :ninja :24:

Actually, I think I'd be kinda afraid to try that.
 
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