• Plasma TV – 42-inch 1080p Panasonic Viera plasma HDTV for $807, shipped. That’s about $100 off. Aren’t you glad you waited to buy a new HDTV? And didn’t pay twice as much for that one in your room you’re staring at right now just last year? Yeah, me neither.
What’s crazier is that I expect prices to fall even more before Xmas. [Slickdeals]
• Ethernet Switches – Up to 25% off Dell PowerCorrect Ethernet switches. It’s like Cisco without all fancy settings. (Although I haven’t used a PowerConnect switch in years; I’m sure they’re even better now.) The perfect gift for any sysadmin. [Dealhack]
• Floor Speakers – Polk Audio Monitor 50 floor-standing speakers in Black or Cherry for $100, shipped. The Monitor 60 is available for $130. About half off. [Dealnews]
• Basic NAS – Refurbished Netgear SC101 Storage Central NAS Enclosure that holds two ATA or SATA drives for $27. Wouldn’t count on any real warranty support. [Dealnews]
• PS3 Blu-Ray Remote – Buy two Blu-ray movies at Best Buy for $40, get a free PlayStation 3 remote. I kind of want to do this but the selection of movies is iffy. I’m really only into “Bullitt” and “A Clockwork Orange” and I’m not sure I need to own them on Blu-ray. [Dealnews]
• iPod Dock – Today’s Woot is the Polk Audio miDock Portfolio iPod Speaker Dock for $35, shipped.
Firmware is upgradeable to support Vista.
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/sc101v1.asp
very tempting.
The NAS unit doesn’t support SATA (without external converter). It only accepts IDE natively.
I bought one of those Netgear NAS boxes from geeks.com about 6 months ago. I was unhappy to say the least. Supports mirror but not stripe RAID and has NO mac support. I pulled the drives out and put them in an old Dell rather than use the NAS box. Just a little info from someone who has had one.
Run away from that NetGear NAS box. Run away fast. This is not a ReadyNAS box that everyone loves. This was NetGear’s initial NAS attempt. When they saw how awful it was, they went and bought ReadyNAS brand. This is a steaming pile of crap that only works on Windows with custom drivers. If two computers access the same file, it tends to corrupt the file
Run away, and don’t look back.
Thanks for the warning on the NAS.
I’m almost tempted to bite on the Plasma TV. But I think I’ll wait a bit longer yet. My almost 9 year old Sony WEGA at 34″ is still working just fine. I’m a geek, and I still haven’t gotten any HD yet.
Believe me, once you’ve seen 2001 in 1080p, you can’t go back.
“It’s like Cisco without all fancy settings”
Translation: its just another crapware switch, same as any other.