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10th
DEC
CompUSA is Closing it’s doors.
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Deals, Technology
After 23 years in business CompUSA is closing it’s doors. According to the WSJ, CompUSA will close or sell all of it’s remaining 103 stores in 68 markets, after the holidays. The company has been up for sale for over a year. There was no indication if they were going to go strictly to online sales, but it has not been mentioned and is highly unlikely with the tough competition from NewEgg and TigerDirect already claiming a large share of the online tech market. Be on the look out for deals as the company will be liquidating it’s entire inventory.
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26th
NOV
A Successful Black Friday
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Deals, Technology
Well at least for me. My goal was to find a desktop to replace my 4 year old system. After careful review of the ads I decided on the HP Pavilion m8226x at Circuit City. I believe it will give another 4 or 5 years. Here is what it is loaded with.
Dual core/64-bit processing: The 3GHz Athlon 64 X2 6000+ This processor is also capable of processing 64 bits of information at once, twice as much as standard 32-bit processors.
- This desktop features 3GB of DDR2 system memory—enough for the most demanding users, vista, gamers and multimedia professionals.
- HyperTransport technology works like a fully-integrated frontside bus that increases bandwidth, reduces bottlenecks and enables processors to work more efficiently.
- Processors search for the same data over and over. L2 caches keep this data neat, organized, and nearby so it can be retrieved more quickly. This 2 x 1MB L2 cache is large, providing a potentially strong boost in performance.
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21st
NOV
Best Deals from Black Friday
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Deals, Electronics, Technology
These are some of the best deals of the 2007 Black Friday weekend. The items are divided by store.
Circuit City - If you don’t want to wait in line most of the deals are available online starting at 12:01am on 11/22
- Acer 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor — $169
- SanDisk 2GB SD Memory Card –$6.99
- Sandisk 4GB High Capacity SD Memory Card w/ Free Reader — $27.99
- Element 7″ Digital Picture Frame — $49.99
- VisionTek ATI Radeon HD2400 PRO 256MB 16x PCIe Graphics Card –$49.99
- Seagate 500GB FreeAgent External Hard Drive –$79.99
- Wii Remote & Nunchuk Gloves –$2.99
- Wii Sports Set — $9.99
- SanDisk 2GB SD Memory Card — $2.99
- Seagate 320GB 3.5″ Internal SATA Hard Drive — $59.99
- Western Digital 500GB 3.5″ External Hard Drive — $99.99
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