Some Weekend Deals

I find myself surfing SlickDeals and FatWallet even when I’m not looking to buy anything… Here are some hot deals I’m aware of, for anyone else materialistic who might be in the market for any of these things:

  • Big, cheap, fast SATA laptop disk: 320GB, 7200RPM Seagate 2.5″ SATA notebook drive, 16MB cache, 3 Gbps. $69.99 with free shipping at NewEgg. Might be a welcome upgrade for my slow 5400rpm laptop drive.
  • Or, per Fatwallet, Dell has a 250GB 7200rpm disk for $40 shipped if you use the mentioned coupon code.
  • Kind of an absurd deal: 3x 16GB SDHC cards for camera buffs willing to put up with rebates. $125 before a $90 rebate, meaning you end up paying $35 for three 16GB SDHC cards. Wow.
  • Maybe you can use one of those jumbo SDHC cards in the Canon Rebel T1i with MP980 printer bundle that Costco has. $1100 before a $300 rebate, which essentially means you get the camera body and lens for $800, a very slight savings over what you’ll pay elsewhere, but with a $300 printer thrown in for free. If you can sell that printer for anywhere near its value, you’ll make out like a bandit, it seems. Besides a really nice LCD, excellent high-ISO performance (at least for its class; a D3 or 5DMkII will outperform it, but at three times the cost or more), it also brings full 1080p HD video, albeit with a crappy microphone per reviews.
  • AT&T apparently has some 8GB refurbs of the iPhone 3G for $50, though (a) you’ll still need a close-to-$100/month plan, and (b) that thread is full of arguments about whether refurbs are worth it or not, and Mormon jokes…?
  • 22″ 1680×1050 Hanns-G LCD, $139.95 at NewEgg. Based on the complaints, it does DVI and VGA, but doesn’t include a DVI cable.
  • 23″ 1920×1080 Acer LCD, $179.99 at NewEgg. I own two 1920×1080 LCDs, and would buy a third if only I had a computer that could handle another one.
  • I love my IDE/PATA/SATA-to-USB adapter, though $15 isn’t much of a savings over the $25 I paid for a different brand not on sale. If you know what it is, you’ll realize how immensely useful it can be.

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