5 ways to keep up with technology without going broke

It is the nature of technology to change constantly and it is also the nature of technology to be pricey-especially cutting edge technology.You need some of the high tech gadgets to stay competitive in the business world and you probably enjoy high tech gadgets in your personal life as well.The problem is that all this fast changing high techery can drive you into the poor house.Here are five ways that you can keep up with technology without going broke.

Be a little patient-if you can just wait a little while, the prices will drop.Because technology does change so quickly, what is state-of-the-art today will be yesterday's news tomorrow.The corollary to this truth is that what costs big dollars today will cost medium dollars tomorrow.Being a little patient will not only save you some money, it will also net you better stuff in the long run.Remember a few years ago when digital cameras were the hot new thing?The prices were sky high and for cameras that offered less than 2 mega-pixels of resolution.Today you can buy 10 mega-pixel cameras for what you could only buy 2 mega-pixels for back then.Grabbing the newest thing is not always a smart decision.Wait a while for the technology to improve and the price to come down.

By older models-looking at something like the BlackBerry business phone can teach you a few things about keeping up with technology without going broke.They have come out with 17 models in the last couple of years.Each model is higher priced and has a few more features than the model before.Figure out what features you must have on whatever high-tech toy it is that you want, and find an older model that has those features.Many of us end up paying for super high tech options that we will never use.If you end up with 8 gigs of storage or 80 gigs of storage will not really matter if you are just storing photographs of your kids.You could save more pictures than you will eve be able to look at with the smaller storage device.

Use the internet-shopping online is usually cheaper than shopping at stores.If you know what it is that you want, search for it online and see how cheap you can get it.You might be surprised at how much you can save by using the internet to do your high tech shopping.You can also find reviews by both experts and consumers for most products.Instead of going to the store where one sales person assures you that this digital video recorder is the best of the best.Go online and find out what people who purchased the thing have to say.

Consider Costco-I bought my HP Pavilion laptop with a dual core from Costco.It cost even less than what I could find it for online.They even offered a nice warrantee and have stores almost everywhere where I can take the thing if it ever breaks.Most people probably don't think of discount warehouses as places to find high tech equipment, but for the people who do, the payoff is pretty good.

Consult blogs-weblogs, or blogs, are becoming more popular as places to both find out about the latest and greatest in technology and to find out about great bargains.A lot of people trust the information they read in blogs more than they trust commercially available information because blogs are written by regular people.Bloggers tend to be quite articulate and very informative.If you want the inside scoop on what kind of experience people have had with their high tech equipment, check out some blogs.