New laptop-Kindle Fire HD, Boise speaker, Kindle Whitepaper,and camera - 2012

We purchased a new laptop from Fry's Electronics and it was less money than the popular tablet and does a 100 times more (biased I agree :))! 

October 2012 - Currently at Marina Kona Kai  Shelter Island San Diego, CA  
As I am typing on this computer now it is great. At present we are in a SailMail class and they are talking sat phones which does not interest us. This new laptop will serve the purpose of emails to SailMail among other things. SailMail is a Microsoft Windows program but other devices can run Windows.

We can also watch movies on our 27" LED TV from our portable hard drive which we have our movies stored on through HDMI.

Purchased at Fries Electronics. 

 

Shown here on the bookshelf. This speaker really sounds great.

 We also have a 15" monitor so we can watch the movies in the cockpit with our new speaker. Putting both out in the cockpit we can do cockpit movies with great sound and graphics. This Boise speaker also runs and charges the better on 110 power. It connects to our TV by a sound cable also in the aux port.

 

Additional Hard drive.

We got the laptop with built in Bluetooth. The Bluetooth connects to our new Boise battery-powered speaker and the Pactormodem which connects to our ICOM 802 SSB.

Also we picked up a USB remote keyboard and mouse for the salon and cockpit use.  We purchased this at Fry's also.

All in all a sweet setup.

I also received a new Kindle Fire HD tablet for a retirement present. We sold our old Kindle Fire because the new one can do Skype better. We also ordered a Kindle Whitepaper 3G for reading my books.

 Because I literally hosed my Droid X smart phone with the garden hose, which killed it despite using the "rice" trick, at the boat we got a water proof camera. This we purchased at Costco.