{"id":1605,"date":"2009-02-14T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2009-02-14T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T00:28:47","slug":"weekend-tech-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/02\/14\/weekend-tech-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Tech Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still conflicted as to what I want for a machine; I sort of want a desktop, sort of a laptop, sort of a Mac, sort of not&#8230; But as I was checking out FatWallet and Slick Deals, I wanted to point out some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zipzoomfly.com\/jsp\/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10008894&#038;prodlist=cj\">ZipZoomFly has<\/a> a 320GB, 7200 RPM SATA laptop drive, $75; $55 after rebate.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/shopping\/navigate.do?dest=5&#038;item=425663\">Sam&#8217;s Club<\/a> has the Dell Mini (9&#8243;), 1 GB RAM, 8 GB SSD, for $245 shipped. Non-members pay 10% extra. This isn&#8217;t in stores; I checked. Word on the street is that this model does an excellent job of running OSx86.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buy.com\/prod\/Famous-Maker-24-inch-Vivid-Color-Widescreen-LCD-Height-Pivot\/q\/loc\/111\/210520254.html\">Buy.com<\/a> has a de-badged, recertified 24&#8243; (1920&#215;1200) LCD, for $210 shipped. I&#8217;m very tempted.<\/li>\n    <li>NewEgg has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116389&#038;CMP=AFC-C8Junction\">800&#215;600 projector<\/a> for $420, or $370 after rebate.<\/li>\n    <li>Amazon has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000FIVDIA\/ref=nosim\/?tag=fatwalletcom&#038;linkCode=as1\">5-port Gigabit switch<\/a> for $15. Description mentioned jumbo frame support. NewEgg matches.<\/li>\n    <li>No link, but 550VA UPS (APC) at Staples for $40, before $10 rebate.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatwallet.com\/forums\/hot-deals\/903563\/\">21.5&#8243; Asus LCD<\/a> (1920&#215;1080) at NewEgg, $170 shipped. This thing has excellent reviews, too. I think this might be more tempting than the 24&#8243; &#8216;recertified&#8217; one.<\/li>\n    <li>$50 each buys a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatwallet.com\/forums\/hot-deals\/903865\/\">Visiontek ATI Radeon HD3650<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatwallet.com\/forums\/hot-deals\/903784\/\">Sparkle GeForce 9400GT<\/a>. Both are 1GB graphics cards, which is twice what one of my laptops has&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a hard time not buying that Asus LCD. DVI, HDMI, and VGA inputs. And it&#8217;s got nothing but good reviews. But it&#8217;s also tempting to upgrade my laptop to a 320 GB hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, fellow T60 owners: in addition to the spiffy 320GB SATA disk for notebooks, I&#8217;ve been thinking of upgrading to 3GB RAM. The Bentley-issued T60s have two slots but a single 1GB stick. Looks like we want 200-pin, PC2-5300 memory. Most reviews say that a limitation in some low-level hardware (descriptions vary?), the Thinkpad is incapable of seeing more than 3GB RAM, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231153\">a single 2GB DIMM<\/a> is in order. We can Upgrade to 3GB RAM and a 320GB disk for under $100? Still thinking I might sink my money into a desktop instead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still conflicted as to what I want for a machine; I sort of want a desktop, sort of a laptop, sort of a Mac, sort of not&#8230; But as I was checking out FatWallet and Slick Deals, I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/02\/14\/weekend-tech-deals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}