Probaly my Soundblaster Arena headset. Gaming and Music with no distractions or noisy neighbours = bliss.
My saab 900 2L turbo for £343.33. 3rd gear rocket, blink at 60-110mph, should come with a sonic boom. My IBM Thinkpad X61 tablet with 120GB SSD, pure joy with Ubuntu. Updated flash today and 720p youtube vids give smooth playback which has made me very happy as i had stuttering before. I love my kindle as it's allowed me to start reading more these days, but its not rated as my best purchase, same goes for the HP microserver N36L, great price but not used as much as i had expected.
My Galaxy Nexus. I'd been holding off on getting a smartphone for awhile because they seemed just not quite capable of what I wanted. This phone checked all the boxes. It's hardware is fairly powerful, 4G provides great mobile internet access, and the sheer size of thing is awesome. Smaller phones always seem to lack the screen real estate I'd like and anything larger would be uncomfortable because it's pushing the upper limit. Hugely underrated headset. I'm a big fan of mine.
probably the bottle of jose quervo that night I met my "partner" lol I don't think I'd have had the courage to ask her out without that little mexican inside me yelling you can do it! I used to find really smart girls intimidating- and in the midst of gay men doing cartwheels, went out a few times and she liked my jokes! years later.. now she knows I'm an idiot but doesn't care also she knows she won't catch me down at the gay strip bar getting hemmroids
In order of occurence... Amiga 1200 that I upgraded to from The Amiga 600. With it I taught myself programming (C) and had my first foray onto the Internet way back in the mid nineties. Technically not a purchase but a lot of hard work... My Private Pilots Licence. With it I've had so much fun and several hundreds worth of hours of airbourne experiences that I'll cherish forever and now hold an FAA CPL/IR on Single and Multi Engine "Airplanes". Following on from this after two months of learning to drive I took delivery of my first car (I was 26) which was a Renault Clio 1.2 16V Dynamique that I have now given to my sister as she really needed to replace her older Fiesta. But since getting my first motor I've put a couple of stone on due to lack of running for buses that I always seemed to be doing previously. Then yes I'm going to own up and say I bought a PC from PC World. A Packard Bell Pentium Dual Core 920D (iirc) with 2GB and a Radeon X600 running Win XP 64-bit Media Player edition. Quite a decent spec when I bought it (except GFX) and had many hours playing around with Visual Studio on it. But why have I included it here? Well one evening I switched it on to look at something on the internet for five minutes but got pulled into an aviation related forum by an air traffic friend. Fast forward 6 years, the lady I got talking to within the forum (PPRUNE chat) who happened to be a friend of the person who pulled me into the forum that fateful night, is now my wife and we're happily living in Scotland. . Just to think I wasn't even going to go online that night!!!!
You fly at Strathallan by any chance? It's just up the road from me. Best purchase? Probably this machine. Loads of performance, it rocks -- I could probably clock it much higher than this as well but I don't need the power. Needs tidying up and a few tweaks, though. That or my first PC, largely responsible for all the knowledge I have now.
Mine is, at the moment, my singular Xperia S, first proper smartphone i've owned, first phone I've wound up with 3G on, and my singular support that's getting me through this hideous phase without a computer without going absolutely crazy from boredom.
Ticket to Taiwan in 2010. kthxbye'd UK. My first car - MK1 Clio 1.2. Piece of **** compared to everyone else's here but it NEVER failed me. 30k miles of pure fun bounding around the country, then sold it for as much as I bought it for. Only paid to put new boots on it and a few oil changes, plus an MOT. Second car 'upgrade' was just a money pit - was glad to get rid of it. Maybe my first PC - £600 of savings and all the constant upgrades gave me a life-long love.
Probably my SLR - through shooting gigs, roller derby and burlesque I've built up a huge number of friends I'd never have met otherwise. I was considering car/iPhone, but ANY smartphone would perform the same function (give or take) and I can think of 40 cars in a similar price bracket to mine that I'd have had ALMOST the same enjoyment out of... Though I'd say car 2nd as its four wheel drive has stopped me ending up in a hedge twice now....
This is nice that peoples best purchases arent always infact their most expensive ones. Nice thread, also happy to see there are many others that the Amiga really influenced their computer life as such.
My fave one i think..... Is my Guitar. Got a Dean Razorback brand new and set-up for £450 which compared to teh RRP of about £800 is amazing But my best one is the deposit for the flat my GF an I will be moving into come june
I'm afraid I don't fly at Strathallan, although I have flown overhead using it as a turning point enroute to Prestwick, but that is only if I can't get through Glasgow's airspace (quite rare). If I'm going down that way I usually route direct to Kilmarnock from Cumbernauld / Bailiston Interchange, skirting around the large wind turbine "farm". I'm based at Fife but the nearest airfield to me is Cumbernauld (I live in Alloa). However I do prefer the atmosphere and club of Fife, not that there is anything wrong with Cumbernauld, just my personal preference.
My Altberg Norwegian boots. Saw me through the horrors of Ex Longreach, and I am sure they will continue to serve for a very long time!
