Burn my eyes! Burn my eyes! Baybeeeeee!

[reddragdiva]

I love my new camera. I bought it a 512MB MMC card and uploaded 400MB of '80s Australian indie rock MP3s to it. (Taking ninety minutes to do so, further proving the suction power of USB 1.) And the sound is lovely. I'm really going to enjoy this toy.

Having previously been cyberpunkian repurposers of others' discarded technology, we have somehow moved way up the gadget chain. Still second-hand, but suddenly we're donating phones and Macs and stuff to the po'. It's somewhat disconcerting. But ooh the shiny.

The last major item will be a printer/scanner thing. Inkjets are fundamentally a con, but we have an actual application for one, which is to print colour photos for redcountess's mum (whose DVD player has sat unconnected for the past two years, so attempting a technological uplift isn't a feasible option). Are there any injket printer/scanners where they don't completely sodomise you on the ink? Should we get separate devices? Open source compatibility would be a nice extra, but failing that we'll just hook it to the Mac like the garglers of Steve's piss we are.

The second last major item will be giving all our computers the gift of memory. Crucial remain top for service, but have somehow become much pricier than I remember. Is there anyone cheaper who's still good?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Inkjets: Cheap, high quality, fast. Pick at most two.

Really - cheap'n'cheerful inkjets you can refill the cartridges using a syringe yourself are cheap, but I am not at all sure the quality is anywhere up to the level of the current actually-looks-like-a-photo sort with 7 or so ink cartridges.
You may be better off getting photos commercially printed if you just want a few good prints.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

What he said. Commercial prints are generally about the same price as printing on the inkjet printer, and much nicer (and less of a PITA). Around Sydney they're 25c for a normal sized (4x6?) print. I got an enormous photo album full of them done in Canada at one point, for about $80, which would have cost me much more than that in inkjet paper and ink.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

You will be unable to escape a price rise in commodity DRAM if there has been one, unless you can find some vendor whose pricing is curiously disconnected from market rates.

[jo-hoetmer.livejournal.com]

I so need access to you library!!!