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Still trying to decide on a Christmas present for your daughter? Sounds like your wife is winning.

Get her the new mini ipad. That's what I'm considering for my girl now.

She already has a nook. So an itouch would make more sense. She has too much as it is. She could use a coal in your stocking year, to tell the truth.

Pretty much to play those stupid java games in her room. I mean she could use it for school and stuff too. But we have a computer and she can do all that there. That's kind of why I've been against getting one.

Yeah, that's the whole point of them. They don't have much internal storage, but allow you more than enough free space on their cloud to store anything you want and retrieve it about as fast as a hard drive.

And they are lightning fast. They'll boot up in 3 seconds and fly. I don't have one, but I've played around a little on them and I was impressed.

She doesn't need anything that expensive. I drink Miller High Life and Mickey's for a reason bro.

Are you talking about the new Chromebook by Samsung?

This one?

Ok, what this laptop is, is basically a tablet with a keyboard.

It was designed to do just the simple things, like surfing the web, video chatting with friends, watching movies, listening to music, and just things like that. Doesn't have the processing power to do what more than that, especially considering the CPU that it uses are the same one that are in smart phones and tablets.

Take my recommendation?

You said she wants an iTouch (not a bad choice) but want a laptop as well? I would recommend a higher price tablet with a bigger screen then. Not an iPad or iPad mini or anything, but something like the new $200 Nexus 7 or any of the Galaxy Tabs.

Hope this helps at all.