• Windows Home Server – HP EX470 MediaSmart Server with 512MB DDR, 500GB HDD, Windows Home Server, for $300. Normally about $500 or so. These are backup/network devices, not computers. [Slickdeals]
• Espresso Makers – A large portion of the higher-end espresso makers on Amazon are about 20% off. [Amazon]
• Toys – Apparently Toys ‘R’ Us is having a big sale that should be as good as their Black Friday prices. This includes deals on videogames. [Bargainist]
• Home Theater Receiver – Sony STR-DG820 7.1-channel home theater receiver with HDMI switching (four inputs) for $215, shipped. A fine bit of hardware, although you’ll need speakers, too. [Dealnews]
• Amazon Sale – Amazon will be doing Black Fridayesque deals all week, they say. We’ll see! [Amazon]
• The Killers – Get The Killers new album “Day & Age”, released today, from the Amazon MP3 store for $4. [Day & Age]
• Camera – Today’s Woot is the Pentax Optio V20 8MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom for $115, shipped.
Why is an album by a manufactured Mormon boy band classified as a “tech deal”?
I just posted it to bother you, acb.
Aren’t all bands “manufactured?” It’s not like they are birthed fully formed and playing instruments.
Maybe I’m a tool, but I like most of their new album.
@3: True, but The Killers are an order of magnitude more fake than most. They’re faux-British-new-wave, faux-indie and faux-edgy, writing the sorts of songs that look like caricatures of British new-wave indie as seen from Utah, with a carefully measured pinch of transgressivism; a hint of sexual ambiguity here (just a hint; the Mormons don’t go in for too much gender-bending), a reference to someone doing cocaine (and going crazy; must have a moral), never enough to actually dent their clean-living image. They’re like NKOTB and Amy Grant rolled into one.
Unfortunately the OfficeMax deal (Slickdeals) was a come-on. Friend ordered this and was just informed that the deal was limited to stock on hand or some such nonsense. Anyway after a $300+ hold on his account for a couple of days he got his deal John letter today.
I also ordered the $300 OfficeMax media server, with the added bonus of a $30 coupon I had on hand. Sadly, the order was canceled with the reason being they do not have the stock to fill it. Ahh well, it would have been an excellent deal.