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Best Buy launches $249.99 laptop - This Isn't Your Daddy's Apple

Best Buy launches $249.99 laptop : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech. Okay, Apple computers are slick, pretty, and cool. But, Apple, I have a message for you from the great, unvarnished masses. Unless you can produce a competent, working notebook computer that has a 15 inch screen, 160 Gigabyte hard drive, 2 gigabytes of RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, an 802.11n wireless adapter, a DVD writable drive, for UNDER $250, don't come around talking trash to me. Windows 7 is a great OS, and the specs on this computer are better than most lawyers or staff will ever need. The Acer Extensa is a really competent computer. I even bought one last year for She Who Must Be Obeyed, and she is a tough audience. If you spend $1,500 and up for a logo, I don't even want to talk to you. You aren't of my tribe.

Taking A Bite Out Of Apple - Toshiba Satellite 17 inch laptop for $389

Toshiba Satellite L355-S7915 Celeron 900 2.2GHz 3GB 250GB DVD�RW DL 17" Vista Home Basic Toshiba PSLD8U-0U9033B Satellite L355-S7915. Psst. Hey, buddy! Want a laptop cheap? This Toshiba 17 inch laptop with a 250 GB drive, and Vista Home Premium, and 3 Gigabytes of memory is on sale at Computergeeks.com for under $400. It has a Celeron processor, which isn't flashy, but gets the job done. And, for another $119, you can upgrade it to Windows 7. Under $500, and more computer than your kid, or your spouse, or even you, will need for a long time. Does wearing a designer label mean that much to you?

No Rebates, No Hassles, No More Excuses, Back It Up

No Rebates, No Hassles - Just use the Code!*. You have run out of excuses not to back up your hard drives. This Barracuda drive has 3/4 of a Terabyte of data space (that's 750 Gigabytes), and only costs Fifty bucks. If you don't have a 3.5 inch internal slot, you can get a USB compatible case for $10 to $20 at the computer store. Or, ghost your old hard drive, retire it to a backup role, and stick this bad boy in the computer. This drive is so boy friendly that I am feeling the urge to grunt and go to the hardware store.

Want To Avoid Sprint? Move To Spain

The Official Palm Blog: Palm Pre says "Hola" to Spain on 14 October. Jonesing for a Palm Pre? Can't wait for Verizon? I don't know whether Telefonica is a superior cell phone provider to Sprint. However, if you are willing to move to Spain, you can find out. Until Verizon Wireless gets the phone next year, this might be a viable option; and, you can catch a bullfight while you are there.

Neat Desk Document Scanner - Feng Shui For Paper

Newegg.com - Neat Desk 00315 CIS 600 dpi Duplex Document Scanner - Scanner - Document Scanners. I have stuck with a single sheet feed Neat scanner for a year or so, but confess that it is so slow and cumbersome, that I had a pile of documents and receipts for scanning that was two feet high. I have resisted buying one of the Automatic Document Feed scanners (ADF) due to the cost, around $500. However, when I saw the Neat Desk ADF scanner with the new NeatWorks software included, at CompUSA, for $399, a $100 discount, I bought it. In one weekend, I scanned and shredded every receipt and document I could find. You can load 10 documents and 10 receipts at once, and it scans them and puts them in a staging area for processing. Processing can take a long time, since NeatDesk creates a searchable image of each, automatically identifies the document as a receipt, and the automatic classification is remarkably accurate. For those of you who have gotten rid of the paper receipts piled up at home or the office, it is difficult to describe the satisfaction of running them through a shredder. The software itself is worth the price of admission. And, being able to find a year old receipt when you need it, by typing a search term in a software box, well, that brings balance back to nature. Ommmmmmmmmmmmm.

Vaio X - You Can Never Be Too Rich Or Too Thin

Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1", 14-hour battery | The Toybox | ZDNet.com. The ultralight category just got really light. Larger than a Netbook, so you have a full sized keyboard and 11.1 inch screen, impossibly thin, and weighing in at only 1 1/2 pounds with the 3 hour battery (it comes with a heavier wedge battery that will get 13 hours), and a 64 Gigabyte SSD (solid state) drive, Sony has just redefined the category, at a price point that will have many high end users salivating: $1,300. It will come with Windows 7 Home Premium, so, if you were planning to get a new notebook with Windows 7, take a long look at this one. Of course, my trusty old Dell D430, at 3 pounds, with a 120 Gig hard drive, 12.1 inch screen, and Windows XP, is still working fine, thank you. And, I scored a used one on Ebay for $260 as a backup. So, pick your poison. The Frugal Lawyer will stick with what is working for now.

Would A Real Man Carry A Phone Named Pixi?

Playing with the Palm Pixi, hands on photos, first impressions.

Okay, I admit it. I am jonesing for a phone called Pixi. If these things only came in hot pink, I would still want one. I won't buy the Sprint version; but next year, they should become available on Verizon Wireless, and I will wait. They are the Web OS version of the Palm Centro that I have carried around for two years. They are narrow enough to fit comfortably in one hand, have a hard keyboard that can be easily controlled with a thumb, and run the multi-tasking Palm Web OS that is taking the smartphone world by storm. I don't care if they call it Princess. I have got to get me one of these.

64 Gigabytes In A Package No Larger Than Your Pinky

KINGSTON DATATRAVELER DT 200 DT200 64GB 64G USB DRIVE - eBay (item 220466324572 end time Sep-11-09 23:26:09 PDT). I have posted before about my Kingston Data Traveler USB stick, which holds 64 Gigabytes of data. Yes, you read that right. This little guy holds more data than most of the hard drives I have used. It cost me around $200, and its successor, shown here, can be purchased on Ebay for around $140. You can get a 128 gigabyte version for around $500, and, in the Far East, you can buy a 256 Gig stick. The point here is that if, like me, you always have more data than storage on your hard drive, this is a great way to expand and it also serves as a great backup stick. I am very leery of the fact that my thousands of images of family and life are in digital format, for the most part. In the old days, our photographs faded; but, we had the paper copies, and, lacking fire or flood, they usually survived. Today, I have 30 gigs of irreplaceable photographs; so, I backup them up to various locations. I saved space on the notebook I carry around by backing them up to the DataTraveler, which I can plug in whenever I need a particular photo, or want to browse. This, by the way, is one use of Web 2.0 of which I approve. Find a data storage facility in the cloud, and back up all those photos. You might someday be glad you did.

Get a 1-terabyte external drive for $69.99 | The Cheapskate - CNET News

Get a 1-terabyte external drive for $69.99 | The Cheapskate - CNET News. My first external USB hard drive was a Seagate that cost $300, and had 350 Gigabytes of storage. I thought that less than a dollar a Gig was amazing. Then, after a few backups, it filled up. Then, I found a 500 Gigabyte Western Digital drive for about $200, bought at a sale price at the local office supply store at an after Thanksgiving sale. Again, more space than God needs. It, too, filled up. Now, you can get a Fantom 1 Terabyte drive (That's 1,000 Gigabytes) for $69. OMG.

Apple Wants Microsoft To Stop Airing Ads - Is It Hypocritical?

DailyTech - Apple Begs for Mercy, Asks Microsoft to Stop Airing Laptop Hunters Ads. Apple has allegedly sent Microsoft a request to stop airing its price competitive ads because it has "lowered" its prices $100 to $300. Amazing. After Apple aired ads for over a year depicting Microsoft users as clueless idiots, it takes some arrogance to complain about largely truthful ads that highlight the fact that similar computing power costs a lot more from Apple. Of course, neither company is above sales "puffing". I like some Apple products, such as the iPod Touch, because there isn't a comparable product at a better price. However, it is the height of hypocrisy to complain to Microsoft about the laptop hunters ads, after some of the crap that Apple has been throwing out there for a long time. I wonder if Apple would be lowering its prices if Microsoft weren't airing the comparative pricing ads? Isn't this what competition should do? The principal beneficiaries of this little spat will be the consumer. Hooray.