Gearing Up.

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Decided to buy myself a present after coming back with some leftover cash from the last Vegas trip.

Picked up an iPad Mini. I've been looking at getting a tablet for a while now, mainly as a media device for Vegas trips, frankly, and also because sometimes I have to break down and be a consumer whore. I was looking at Surface Pro 4 or Galaxy Tab 5e, but the Surface just has too much of an identity crisis being a tablet running a desktop OS (badly) and the Galaxy is under-powered compared to the iPad.

The iPad is the newest model, has a blazing fast A12 Fusion chip, 3GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, an amazing to look at, perfectly portable screen size and the new iPad OS. Picked it up at Target for $400 and got a protective cover for it. Less than the Surface would have been and not 4 years old.

How this relates to Vegas (because it all comes back to Vegas), is that it should be a fun movie watching/music listening toy for the trips; looking forward to throwing it in the bag for the Xmas one. It has enough storage for my full iTunes library, a bunch of movies and can serve other purposes during the trips which shall remain nameless (porn).

Also specifically for the trips, I picked up a sizable power bank to keep everything topped off on power while waiting in the airports and on the plane. The power bank can charge literally all of the below, most at the same time.

So the tech that will accompany me in 2 months:

-Tablet/notebook - iPad Mini 5
-Phone - Google Pixel 4 XL
-Mobile Audio - UE Boom 2 portable speaker
-Headphones - JBL E45bt Bluetooth cans
-Mobile power - Aukey 20000 mAh power bank.

It's a decent little setup for trips and I'm all geared up now for the Xmas trip that can't get here soon enough. This closes me out for trip needs, I may pick up a sweater or two for the cold December weather but aside from that I'm all set.

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