Saturday, October 16, 2010

Earl's Cyber Steals and Deals

Newegg has the Sapphire 100253HDMI Radeon 4650 512MB PCI-E Video Card for $49 - $15 rebate [Exp 10/31] = $34 with free shipping. Features a 600MHz core clock, 320 stream processing units, and is Direct X 10.1 compatible.

Office Depot has the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-400f Quad-Core Desktop for $730 with free shipping. AMD Phenom II 945 Quad-Core 3.0GHz CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB, Wireless-N, HDMI, DVD±RW, Win 7 HP x64

EverydaySource has the Foldable USB Keyboard DOTHXXXXKB04 on sale for $10 - $6 off with coupon code S10FUKB [1000 uses] = $4 with free shipping. It's $6.50 for the next 1000 customers after that. Fold-up QWERTY keyboard features five rows of full-size keys (including numbers). Can be cleaned with just soap and water

Newegg has the Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK for $110 - $10 off with coupon code EMCYTZT191 [Exp 10/17] = $100 with free shipping. Features built-in power management for energy-efficient operation.

PCMicroStore has the Nero 9.4.17/26 Suite 2 Burn no playback (OEM) for $5.99 - $2.50 off with coupon code NERO = $3.49 with free shipping. Create, rip, copy, burn, and edit music, video, photo and data, with autobackup and data-protection features.

Walmart has the Toshiba Satellite L655D-S5066 AMD Dual Core 15.6" Laptop (Black) for $498 + $1 shipping = $499 shipped. Tiger Direct has the red model for $600 - $100 off with code KVG8362 + $8 shipping = $508 shipped. Webcam, DVD Burner, MS Office 10/100 Ethernet. AMD Turion II Dual-Core P520 2.3GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250, 802.11b/g/n, Windows 7 HP x64

Tiger Direct has the AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad Core 2.5GHz Socket AM2+ Processor (HD9850XAJ4BGH) for $90 - $30 off with coupon code LJI8317 + $5 shipping = $65 shipped. Features a 2MB L2 + L3 cache and 2000MHz bus speed.

Apple Store has the refurbished iPad Tablet Wi-Fi 16GB (MB292LL/A) for $449 with free shipping. Features a custom 1GHz Apple A4 processor and 9.7" multi-touch display with up to 10 hours of battery life. The refurbished 32GB Wi-Fi (MB293LL/A) is $549 and the refurbished 64GB Wi-Fi (MB294LL/A) is $649

Sunday, October 10, 2010

OnComputers Radio show Podcast 10-10-10

This is the On Computers Radio show podcast for 10-10-10. You can listen live every Sunday from 11AM to 12PM Pacific that's 2PM to 3PM Eastern. Join us for the live show and chat.

Links from the Gregg Zone

1) Found an interesting site looking at the other half of the electric car problem. Charging stations; it looks like this area is heating up, this article refers to startup charging companies starting around the country, and there are embedded links included for most of the listed projects. If I was much younger looking for opportunity I might look at a business installing charging stations for apartment buildings, and condos. http://www.green-energy-news.com

2) As long as I am on the car topic, how about Google’s new auto-automobile drives itself, in traffic, using freeways. I watched some competition on auto-piolet cars a while back, but they were on a special track, not in traffic. http://www.nytimes.com

1) I have put up links about the crystal caves in Mexico a few times in the past, just noticed the National Geographic is going to have a special on them airing tonight. The link is just announcing the airing; I will have to wait for it to come out on the net to watch it. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/into-the-lost-crystal-caves-4636#tab-Overview

4) This is a very interesting article about some upcoming meteoroid showers. Looks like next year may be the show stopper. I do not usually get to excited about them, always curious but not enough to drive away from the lights. I may make an exception next year. http://www.examiner.com

5) The geek link for the week is about an entire room becoming a computer display, every table, the floor, even the people. Not quite sure where the value of all this is, but if it can be done with current technology I suppose somebody somewhere is doing it. http://news.cnet.com