TV Advice Buying a TV can be quite intimidating. When clients ask me what to get, here’s what I usually recommend. Go to a big box store (Costco, Sams) since they have an excellent return policy, good prices, and they don’t try to give you terrible upsells and warranties. If you want the best value,
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I recently upgraded the client’s old laptop hard drive laptop to a hybrid drive from Seagate: Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB Hybrid What’s special about it? It’s got 8GB of solid state drive. That makes its speed somewhere between a standard hard drive an SSD. The drive intelligently moves commonly used files to the solid
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We just upgraded a 2011 Apple Mac Mini to have an SSD, a second hard drive, and new RAM. Video Also available on YouTube in High Definition or Standard Definition. Parts List OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G Western Digital 1TB Blue WD10JPVT 5400RPM, 8 MB cache,
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The free site Gazaro allows you to look up products and see pricing trends. You can see if the product’s price has dropped regularly or if you are at a high blip. Gazaro also identifies products that have recently dropped significantly in price. Sign up is required, but there is no fee. This is an
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Deal Sites It’s easier than ever to find good shopping deals online. The biggest sites that aggregate online deals are: Slickdeals.net Fatwallet These sites have forums where people discuss Hot Deals, Black Friday Deals, Freebies, and Coupons. This is where people go to find amazing deals. Shopaholics also enjoy the innovative woot.com site, which sells
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