Holiday Computer & Gadget Shopping
Tis the season for retailers to offer incredible deals on computers and electronics! For example, this past weekend Wal-Mart offered a 14-inch Acer laptop with 1 gig of RAM for $348 and a Sanyo 50 inch plasma HDTV for $998. Best Buy offered a Toshiba HD-DVD player for under $100. These deals are offered on a specific day or two and supplies are usually limited. These deals are part of a new strategy by Wal-Mart and other retailers. Rather than wait for Black Friday, retailers are beginning to offer big deals and deep price cuts now.
Wal-Mart is also offering a $200 Unix based PC from Everex called the gPC. The machine has a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. While those specs put the system on the low end of the performance spectrum, the makers say it’s actually more responsive than Vista. We’ll have to wait for more reviews before it’s known how true that claim is.
To keep up on all the deals Wal-Mart will be offering, check out their “secret” website at
http://holiday.ri-walmart.com. They even offer email and text alerts! Once again though, be aware that these are very limited offers and each store’s inventory may be even more limited. Be sure and read each ad very carefully, especially if a deal seems too good to be true. For example, it’s been rumored that the reason some of these items are being offered at rock bottom prices is because they will soon be replaced with upgraded models by the manufacturers. So do your homework before snapping up a great deal!
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