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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

Best Buy

  • 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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21st

The Best Desktop Computer Deals - Black Friday 2007

Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Electronics, Technology

As the American consumer prepares for Black Friday, it is often difficult to determine which deals are the best and which stores to actually visit. With the help of sites like bfads.net the consumer has a chance to find the best deal. I’m looking for a computer this Black Friday season and have been scouting the sales to determine which system that is truly the best deal.

Here are my sale recommendations for a desktop computer sorted by stores.

Best Buy -

$399 - Compaq Dual-Core with a HP 17″ monitor. This is a basic system with 1gb memory, a 250gb hard drive, and a CD and DVD burner. This is a bare bones system without a lot of frills. The only obvious downside to this machine is the 1gb of memory supplied to run Windows Vista. I would highly recommend double the memory to 2gb if you choose to purchase this machine for a 56% savings.

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5th
NOV

A New Camera and New Plugin

Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Blogging, Electronics, Flash, Plugins, Technology, Video, Websites

This weekend Nikki and I purchased a new hard disk Digital Camcorder, the Panasonic SDR-H18 Palmcorder . We have been eyeing hard disk camcorders for a couple of months and had it narrowed down to either a Sony, which was the choice of all but 2 salesmen that we talked to, or the Panasonic that we ended up purchasing. We liked both of them for different reasons. The Sony is considered the main brand, and it had night vision for low light situations. However, the brand name was going to cost a premium. We liked the Panasonic because of it’s clear LCD screen, excellent zoom features and it’s O.I.S. (Optical Image Stablization) system. The O.I.S. system is a free floating lens to help stabilizes the recording of a scene, where as the Sony Camcorder had digital image stabilization that resulted in a fuzzy picture when zoomed in on a subject.While we are still learning all the features, we have been pleased with the results thus far. Once I’ve learned more about it’s uses and given it some more testing in real life, I’ll write a more detailed review. Don’t miss our first video.

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