Posts Tagged ‘Laptop’

Don't Bring Your Laptop to This Professor's Class

Saw this on Engadget and figured I’d share it with everybody.  The laptop is broken already, don’t worry.

Black Friday Deals Now Available

To those of you about to embark on your annual journey to the local store on Friday, I salute you.  You are much more brave than I.

I will be spending the day recovering from my Turkey Coma (or what I can eat of it considering my braces were just tightened…meh).

I just wanted to alert those going shopping that many deals are actually being offered online before Black Friday.  While there will still be many many options that are in-store only deals, many (if not most) of the good deals can be had ahead of time on a merchant’s website.

My personal favorite Black Friday site, Black Friday Ads, has a list up of all the merchants that currently offer Pre-Black Friday savings.

Here’s my personal notes to this year’s Black Friday:

• If you’re looking for a Wii, they are out there.  Just not as many as were hoped.  Big retailers to check are Amazon.com (which has been rumored to have the biggest stockpile available), Wal-Mart, and Best Buy.
• There are some good deals on XBOX 360′s this year.  However, the Arcade edition just isn’t worth getting.  If you’re getting an XBOX, it needs to have a hard drive in it, especially after the New XBOX Experience came out.  The Arcade 360 is $200 and comes with a controller and two games.
• Wal-Mart does have an awesome deal if you’re looking to get a 360.  The 360 Pro (with hard drive) also comes with Guitar Hero 3: World Tour (the version that comes with a guitar) for $300.
• Playstation 3′s are coming down in price, but are still not quite wear they need to be to compete against the 360.  Only buy one if you plan on watching a lot of Blu-Ray movies, as that is its strongest feature in this round of the console wars.  I’ve seen nothing below $400.
• Speaking of Blu-Ray, you can get a Magnavox Blu-Ray player fr $200 at Wal-Mart
• Best Buy has a 50″ Plasma TV for $900.  If you have the cash for it as a college student, its a great buy, as it’s a Panasonic, which is normally a good brand.

If you are looking for a comparison of all digital cameras (or TV’s, or laptops, etc, etc) then check out Black Friday Ads comparison chart.  Buy smart…you don’t want to drop $500 on a paperweight Dynex brand.  Ech.

Best of luck to those of you that are going out and about.  You’ll likely need it .

Peek at E-Mail Without Laptop or Phone

An interesting little device has popped up recently, called the Peek.  It’s an e-mail device.  And only and e-mail device.  According to Time Magazine, it does that thing very well.

At $80 for the device and $20 a month for service, it could bode well for those on a pay-as-you-go (aka PAY-GO) service that is popular for many college students.  But for those of you on monthly plans with cell phones from within the past year or so, my suggestion would be to forward your mail to a G-Mail account and then use Google’s online platform.  it’s quick, simple, and easy to use.  And best of all, the only charge is airtime.

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Quick Info:

Device: Peek
Pricing: $80 for the device, $20 a month for service (no long-term contracts)
What’s it do: Wireless E-Mail device
Pros: E-Mail, anywhere, wireless access, up to 3 accounts
Cons: Monthly service charge, only does e-mail
Suggestion: Save your money unless you’re on a PAY-GO cell phone plan
WotM Rating: Cool Factor – 3/5, Practicality – 1/5