{"id":102,"date":"2007-08-26T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/26\/deals\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T17:29:33","slug":"deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/26\/deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people probably like to read the comics in the Sunday paper. I like to read the circulars. Every week there are good deals. But sometimes, there are <em>great<\/em> deals. And this week, there are several. (N.B. that most of these have rebates attached to them.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>$600 buys an HP Pavilion notebook with a dual-core AMD Turion processor, 120 GB hard drive, 14.1&#8243; LCD (&#8220;Brightview Widescreen&#8221; no less), CD\/DVD burner (with &#8220;LightScribe Direct Disk Labling&#8221;), a built-in webcam, Vista Home Premium, and, get this, <strong>2 GIG<\/strong> of RAM. This is a monster of a machine, and $600 is just insane. [Office Depot]<\/li>\n    <li>What I <em>think<\/em> is three reams of (store-brand) recycled paper, $16.99. [Office Depot]<\/li>\n    <li>eMachines Athlon 3800, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB disk, dual-layer CD\/DVD burner, Vista Home Premium. No monitor, but an all-in-one printer\/scanner\/copier. Not a spectacular machine, but $299.98. [Office Depot]<\/li>\n    <li>Refurbished HP all-in-one machine, with a card-reader and 2.4&#8243; LCD. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of refurbished stuff, but $49.99. [Office Depot]<\/li>\n    <li>Store-brand 75-pack DVD-R and 25-pack CD-Rs, $7.99. [Office Depot]<\/li>\n    <li>300-amp jump starter kit, $19.98 at Pep Boys. Or pay $49.98 for a combination jump-starter (rated at 450 amps) and an air compressor.<\/li>\n    <li>Lexmark X1240 all-in-one machine (printer + scanner + copier). $27 at Target. Why <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> I buy this? (The fact that I don&#8217;t need one is not a valid answer.)<\/li>\n    <li>$37 at Target gets you your choice of a Uniden 5.8 GHz cordless phone system (two phones!) with answering machine, or a Philips DVD player. Both seem absurdly cheap.<\/li>\n    <li>30-pack DVD+R or DVD-R, just $4.99 at CompUSA.<\/li>\n    <li>500 GB external Seagate FreeAgent drive (USB 2.0), $117.99 at CompUSA.<\/li>\n    <li>Intel Q6600, the quad-core 2.4 GHz processor. $289.99. I swear these were $600-900 a month ago.<\/li>\n    <li>7-inch LCD digital picture frame (no brand mentioned), $49.99 at CompUSA. At several hundred dollars these picture frames were pretty silly. At $50, it&#8217;s a potential gift.<\/li>\n    <li>An Iomega 1 TB external drive (based on size, it looks like it may be 500+500 or something), for $249.99 at CompUSA.<\/li>\n    <li>A pack of eight good ol&#8217; Dixon #2 pencils, one cent at Staples. Limit 3 per customer. I stopped using pencils when I realized that I&#8217;d just scribble out mistakes instead of erasing them, but 3 cents for 24 pencils&#8230;<\/li>\n    <li>Brother QL-500ec [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brother-QL-500-P-Touch-Label-Printer\/dp\/B000F3VTM0\/ref=sr_1_6\/105-3859259-0295638?ie=UTF8&#038;s=electronics&#038;qid=1188148374&#038;sr=1-6\">on Amazon<\/a>] computer-based label printer, $64.99 at Staples.<\/li>\n    <li>$750 at Staples gets you a dual-core AMD Athlon 4200+, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB disk, 19&#8243; HP LCD, DVD burner (LightScribe), built-in tuner [no word on HDTV?], 15-in-1 card reader, and Vista Home Premium.<\/li>\n    <li>$19.98 buys a 1GB Micro SD, xD, or Memory Stick Pro Duo memory card for your cameras. (Or Treos!) If you&#8217;d rather 1GB in SD or CF, it&#8217;s just $12.98. [Staples]<\/li>\n    <li>Also at Staples, $69.98 gets you an HP all-in-one machine (apparently not refurbished).<\/li>\n    <li>10-ream (5,000 sheet) boxes of paper are $29.99 at Staples.<\/li>\n    <li>Amazon has <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B00009RAX7\/ref=s9_asin_title-1966_p\/105-3859259-0295638?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;coliid=I2BQV0VKE1MQ58&#038;colid=1FJ5J54ARF0LJ&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=right-1&#038;pf_rd_r=0ZRXNHH945F0DV0HBJXH&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=280762101&#038;pf_rd_i=507846\">this nice OBDII reader<\/a> for $69.99. Most of our cars are pretty new so we don&#8217;t have a lot of problems, but I&#8217;m still tempted&#8230;<\/li>\n    <li>Amazon also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FBRND6\/ref=wl_it_dp\/105-3859259-0295638?ie=UTF8&#038;coliid=I22TV6FYAYNBT0&#038;colid=1FJ5J54ARF0LJ\">my shoes<\/a> for $30, which is an absurdly good deal. Considering that I&#8217;m perfectly happy with them and was going to spend like $90 on a new pair of shoes, it seems silly <em>not<\/em> to buy them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m off to go shopping&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people probably like to read the comics in the Sunday paper. I like to read the circulars. Every week there are good deals. But sometimes, there are great deals. And this week, there are several. 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