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Archive for December, 2006

Still time to order this inexpensive notebook PC for Christmas

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Tick, tick, tick… it’s the sound of time slipping away as the holiday weekend approaches.  If you’ve left your shopping for the last minute but still want an impressive gift, Walmart.com can help.  By using one-day shipping, you can have the brand new Acer Aspire 5050-3242 notebook computer in hand by December 22nd, while paying […]

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Save on a discounted, reconditioned HP Pavilion desktop PC

Monday, December 18th, 2006

HP Pavilions are known for being reliable, so this is a chance to make a wise purchase and save money.  NewEgg.com is selling a reconditioned HP Pavilion a735w for $429.99 (with 3-day shipping in the US only $22.27 more).  This is an attractive black and silver tower PC with a number of outstanding add-ons.

Among the most-enticing […]

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Stormtek: New value PCs for under $500

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Stormtek is a value-PC manufacturer, and their products are available from SaveAtEagle.com.  Just because you want a good price doesn’t mean you want to sacrifice quality, and Stormtek is a perfect merging of those two ideals.  Currently on sale for $499.99, the Stormtek Tornado desktop PC has a 2.6GHz Celeron processor and 256MB of RAM, […]

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Affordable Dual-core Pentium from Geeks.com

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Geeks.com isn’t just the home of affordable, refurbished desktop and notebook PCs.  It’s also a place to find incredible deals on brand new technology, like the beautiful dual-core Pentium D desktop by Lenovo:

Dual-core means “blazing fast”, which is just what you want from a desktop PC.   The processor is an Intel Pentium D 820 / […]

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$449.99 for a refurbished notebook PC with DVD-RW

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

So you want a good deal on a refurbished notebook PC, but you want something a little more diversified than yesterday’s bargain?  Geeks.com can help.  Here’s another Dell notebook, this time built around a fast Intel Pentium M 1.7 GHz processor and 512MB of RAM:

This affordable notebook features the Windows 2000 operating system, which you can use […]

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Refurbished Dell notebook for under $400 at Geeks.com

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Geeks.com has a continually-changing selection of refurbished notebook bargains, so if you act quickly you might be lucky enough to score Dell Latitude notebook for just $379.99:

This is a Pentium 4, 2.0GHz laptop PC with 256MB of RAM.   The hard drive is 20 GB, and it also has a CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk […]

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Refurbished notebook PC from TigerDirect

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Here’s another bargain from TigerDirect.com’s special holiday sale.  Buy a factory-refurbished Acer Aspire AS3618WLC notebook PC, with widescreen display, for just $499.99 after $100 mail-in rebate.   The spectacular 15.4″ wide-screen display with Acer CrystalBrite Technology makes watching movies, playing games, or doing homework a pleasure.   It’s a bit difficult to appreciate in the small image, below, […]

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Refurbished desktop PCs for under $200

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Tiger Direct is having some holiday “blow out” sales this week, with offers that are very good, and which will probably disappear quickly.  One example is a refurbished IBM Pentium 4 desktop PC for just $189.99 (after rebate).  This off-lease machine has a 2.4Ghz P4 processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 40GB IDE hard drive.  […]

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Still time to receive this Toshiba Satellite notebook before Christmas!

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Walmart has another super price on a notebook computer this week, the Toshiba L35-S1054 Satellite.  With a 14.1″ WXGA widescreen display supported by the ATI Radeon Xpress chipset, it’s large enough for gaming, or to be used in an office in lieu of a large desktop model.  The Intel Celeron M processor 410 runs at […]

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Get ready for Vista with a new sub-$500 desktop PC

Friday, December 8th, 2006

With the highly-anticipated release of Windows Vista just around the proverbial corner, you’ll probably want make sure that any new desktop PC you purchase is at least Vista capable.  One machine to consider is the Lenovo ThinkCentre A60 8700, a powerful and brand new desktop priced at just $494.99 at Geeks.com.  While it’s described by […]

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