SPONSORED: Streamlining Your Electronics Collection.

Please note: This post is being sponsored by Best Buy and HP.  I am being compensated to write this post with product and/or cash. Nevertheless, all opinions are my own.  I take my integrity seriously, and so should you.

If you are like me, you've got more electronics and computing power in your possession than you know what to do with. Phone. Computer. Tablet.  Camera.  Laptop.  Video camera. Smartwatch.  Backup Laptop. Drone.

And that's just me!  My wife has almost all of the above as well, and my son has most of these things also.  Our house is one large hotbed of electronics!  Thank the lord that we only have one child!)

 (And I'm not even including all of my legacy electronics.  I have a MAC PLUS that I bought in 1991 with a 10MB hard drive!  it still works, but I can't figure out how get the data off the hard drive-- I no longer have SCSI capabilities, and there's no internet/ethernet capability.)

Anyway, if you are looking to streamline your morass of electronics, HP has an interesting solution-- The HP Envy x360 series.

  The HP Envy x360 laptops are 2-in-1 devices that  transform from a laptop to a tablet in seconds. These are touch-screen laptops that come with a keyboard, Windows operating system, and Windows Ink capabilities so you can write on the screen with your stylus. They use a standard AMD processors and they are (as are most computers these days) fast and thin.

GET AN EXTRA $100 OFF THROUGH JULY 28

Through July 28, Best Buy has a special deal for an extra $100 off.  In reviewing these offers, I thought it was interesting that the 13-inch models are more expensive than the 15-inch models.  You pay a little extra for smallness.

Check out the offers here:

HP Envy 13in: http://bby.me/6nscx 

HP Envy 15in: http://bby.me/cnu5z

Features for these laptops include:

Full HD touch screen
A 1920 x 1080 resolution with impressive color and clarity. Finger-touch navigation,  IPS technology for wide viewing angles, and an energy-efficient WLED backlight.

8GB system memory for advanced multitasking
Substantial high-bandwidth RAM to smoothly run your games and photo- and video-editing applications, as well as multiple programs and browser tabs all at once. Models come with either 128 or 256 SSD hard drive.

360° flip-and-fold design
Versatile functionality with laptop, audience, tabletop, presentation and tablet modes.

Windows 10 and Windows Ink
Windows 10 brings back the Start Menu from Windows 7 and introduces new features, including Windows Ink, which allows you to quickly jot down notes and ideas with ease.

While I have been firmly a Mac guy for almost my entire life, I have to say that these babies have me tempted to switch (or at least to add on to my already impressive collection.)   

Dad 2.0- San Diego

Just some of the great sponsors of Dad 2.0

I just arrived in San Diego for the 6th annual Dad 2.0 Summit.  I've written about this event a number of times before SEE THOSE HERE.  It's a conference for dads who write and blog.

The first event was a fantastic Drone Experience (sponsored by Best Buy and DJI (makers of the drones)  I missed the one last year, so was determined to make this one (and I did)

I did a pretty good job of flying the drones.  These things are around $1000-$1500, so they are not that entry level, but they hover like a charm, are super heavy duty, and their photography is awesome!

I'm enrolled in a contest to win one, so I'm hoping that I do!





- here's a little video of me flying the drone like a BOSS!  ---

Me flying a #phantom4pro like a BOSS! I would very much like to win this #sweepstakes, internet gods! @djiglobal #bestdads I have spoken!

A video posted by Adam G (@kafclown) on Feb 9, 2017 at 1:15pm PST

 Anway I got to talking to a first time Dad 2.0 Summit goer.  He's a guy who has a huge following (600K on Youtube, and he vlogs 4 times a week, does lots of brand stuff, etc.) He's based here in San Diego, heard about the conference, and showed up.  He asked me what I like about the conference, and I thought it was worthwhile to repeat this.

I appreciate of course,  meeting brands, and hopefully getting some business.  But for me, that's not why I come.  As a stay-at-home dad (or a "write at home" dad)  I don't have a lot of opportunity to meet colleagues.  I meet a lot of other dads, but most of them are working. I meet a lot of moms, but they aren't men who are primary caregivers.

At this point, 6 years in, I love to come to Dad 2.0 to meet with my community.  I see them online, but having a face to face interaction is just so much better.

The conference will go on for 3 days, and will feature a fair amount of brands, but also talks, and panels, and other moments about how to be a better blogger, how to be a better dad, and how to be a better person.  I'm going to soak it all in, and drink beer with my colleagues.

While I'm here, I want to thank the sponsors of Dad 2.0, without which this conference would be vastly unaffordable for me. Please look kindly on these guys, who are supportive of the dad blogging community.

Check out their twitters (in the photo to the right, and follow them as a good deed.)

They deserve it.

Okay, got to go downstairs and commune with the Dads!