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Just bought a new mouse after my Logitech started malfunctioning.
This one is really comfortable, with back/forward buttons on the side, just as I like. Best of all, PC World made a mistake on the marked price, so I got a £10 discount. Bonus!

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Goodies for the pooch. 2 new treat pouches and clickers. We used to have these but must have given them away after Maggie proved to be completely unmotivated by treats. :rolleyes:

Also a fanny pack for me to carry my flashlight, spare poop bags, and filled poop bags (I hate carrying poop).

Lastly her extra special dog tag. ;)

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shalemail said:
How is the sound? I know the mini's are surprisingly loud. I suspect that's a house party bread box.
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Initial impressions are WOW. This thing sounds awesome and gets crazy loud - and I haven't even pushed it above ~70% yet. Plus it does all the things an Assistant-powered speaker does, but does them better. Even the Assistant's voice sounds better on the Max.

Of course, I'll add the same disclaimer I applied to my Pixel Buds review: I'm not an audiophile, I haven't compared this against similarly-priced speakers. All I know is that to my ears it sounds very, very good, even with non-optimal placement. (Hell, I even deliberately turned it around to play music into the corner and it still sounded phenomenal.)

If you're already familiar with how a Google Home do, want a bigger/better sound, and have the disposable income, I can't recommend the Google Home Max enough.

(Admittedly those are some big ifs - particularly that last one.)
 
I'd really be interested in how it compares to Bose speakers. I have a SoundTouch 10 at the office that I use to stream Sirius all day long and a sound touch mini for home when the wife and I are relaxing on the porch/deck with out favorite adult beverages.

I have a Home (the lava lamp) and a couple of home mini hockey pucks. They sound okay, but when we listen to music, it's either the home stereo or Bose.

FWIW the Soundtouch has two things going for it ... it supports Sirius, and it costs about half of what the Max costs.
 
lunatic59 said:
I'd really be interested in how it compares to Bose speakers.
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I did find a brief comparison here but haven't really dug too much further:
The Max's real competition includes high-end "dumb" single speakers like the Sonos Play:5 and Bose SoundTouch 30. In my comparison listening tests, Google's big speaker beat the Bose handily and matched the Sonos in many areas, with a powerful, spacious sound that fills a room well for a single speaker. I still prefer the Sonos by a nose overall, since it sounded less edgy with some styles of music, but both are excellent for this type of speaker and earned the same rating for sound quality.
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Protip: the Home Minis actually sound a bit better if you put them into a Home Group so you can play music from multiple ones simultaneously.
 
Dammit dammit DAMMIT .... I swore I wasn't going to do this.

But I did.

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I used to fly fixed wing models in my youth and these quad copters have been calling to me for years, but I just couldn't justify a grand$$$ for what, at least for me, would be a toy.

Newegg got me, darn them all to heck. A factory reconditioned drone with a friggin' 4K camera and 3 axis gimbal for $399!!!!

How could I pass that up? (Don't tell the wife)
 
lunatic59 said:
Dammit dammit DAMMIT .... I swore I wasn't going to do this.

But I did.

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I used to fly fixed wing models in my youth and these quad copters have been calling to me for years, but I just couldn't justify a grand$$$ for what, at least for me, would be a toy.

Newegg got me, darn them all to heck. A factory reconditioned drone with a friggin' 4K camera and 3 axis gimbal for $399!!!!

How could I pass that up? (Don't tell the wife)
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Last one I had was tethered to a couple of D cells back in the fifties :) I was big into RC cars a few years back. I spent more time rebuilding my wrecked cars than I did racing/driving them but man they were fun. Those copters were just hitting the market about the time I quit running my cars. Man they looked fun but I figured they would be even easier to crash than an auto. I still wanted one. :) At least they have come down in price considerably. I bet it's crazy fun. Good luck with the wife.
 
I've been fascinated by flying ever since my grandfather let me take the yoke of his single engine two-seater back in the '60s.

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The last plane I flew was a replica model of a P-51. I still have it, but it's not airworthy and I think I put too powerful an engine it it because it was hard to control and crashed a lot.

I'm excited like a kid standing in line at the ballpark. :D
 
Yes!! A reason to spam my youtube vid (with 2,600 views, haha)

But yea, $399 is sweet. Yuntec is a good brand, so is Parrot, but as long as you don't mind your drone spying on you, DJI is far and away the market leader.

4K for that price is unheard of. I just love seeing the world from a new perspective, and I'm crap at photography and especially at video editing. Some killer vids are possible if you are good at that. I tried using the *free* go pro video editor, with not much success.
 
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