Hello All,
Two solid deals on Android tablets for today. Woot is selling the Toshiba Thrive 16GB tablet for $294.99 shipped to your door. This is a very solid tablet that has GPS, HDMI out, USB, and a SD card reader all built in to the unit. For icing on the cake, this tablet will be upgraded to Android 4, which is built for tablets.
You can find this here.
If you want to buy something new, the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 32GB is on sale at both Staples and Office Depot for $299.99. In my searches it seems that this tablet will also get updated to Android 4, but there is no official word from Lenovo.
You can find this here.
Later,
John
Monday, December 19, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Deal of the Day #2 - 12/8/11
Hello All,
On Sunday night, December 11th, at 6pm central time. HP will be selling refurbished TouchPads for $99 for the 16GB and $149 for the 32GB. They will be doing this only from their ebay store, and only accept PayPal as a payment method. There is a limit of two per person and the units will have a 90 day warranty. HP will also be selling a $79 bundle including a case, Touchstone dock, and wireless keyboard. The dock allows you to charge the TouchPad wirelessly, you simply need to place it on the stand.
We scored one of the 32GB originally when they hit $149. It was DOA when we got it and it took about six weeks to get it back from HP. It is good for the money, but a first generation iPad is more responsive. If you look at it like a giant iPod Touch, then it is a good deal. For music playback, photo viewing, and light web browsing it works great. Lastly, there is an effort to port Andriod 4 to the TouchPad. If they get that working then you will have a very solid Andriod tablet for $99 or $149, and that is a great deal.
You can find this deal here.
Later,
John
On Sunday night, December 11th, at 6pm central time. HP will be selling refurbished TouchPads for $99 for the 16GB and $149 for the 32GB. They will be doing this only from their ebay store, and only accept PayPal as a payment method. There is a limit of two per person and the units will have a 90 day warranty. HP will also be selling a $79 bundle including a case, Touchstone dock, and wireless keyboard. The dock allows you to charge the TouchPad wirelessly, you simply need to place it on the stand.
We scored one of the 32GB originally when they hit $149. It was DOA when we got it and it took about six weeks to get it back from HP. It is good for the money, but a first generation iPad is more responsive. If you look at it like a giant iPod Touch, then it is a good deal. For music playback, photo viewing, and light web browsing it works great. Lastly, there is an effort to port Andriod 4 to the TouchPad. If they get that working then you will have a very solid Andriod tablet for $99 or $149, and that is a great deal.
You can find this deal here.
Later,
John
Deal of the Day - 12/8/11
Hello All,
Today only, Sellout.woot is selling refurbished Roku N1000 boxes for $44.99, shipped to your door. These are similar to the AppleTV, but less money and with more content. We have one and we love the HBO Go channel, and the Amazon streaming channel. The units also have a lot of the big and popular channels such as NetFlix, Pandora, YouTube, and Hulu Plus.
You can find this deal here.
If you are leery of the fact that is the prior generation technology, you can get the current, second generation, hardware for $49.99. You can find that here. The one advantage the refurbished unit has over the new unit is an ethernet port. The XS 2, on sale for $90, is a also a worth while upgrade. It gives you a USB port so you can play anything on a USB stick on the Roku.
One other issue to note. If you are running your own DNS as we are, the unit will likely fail to connect when you fire it up. After I changed the dhcp server to use external DNS servers the unit worked great. I am sure there is a way to fix this issue but I have not looked into it.
Later,
John
Today only, Sellout.woot is selling refurbished Roku N1000 boxes for $44.99, shipped to your door. These are similar to the AppleTV, but less money and with more content. We have one and we love the HBO Go channel, and the Amazon streaming channel. The units also have a lot of the big and popular channels such as NetFlix, Pandora, YouTube, and Hulu Plus.
You can find this deal here.
If you are leery of the fact that is the prior generation technology, you can get the current, second generation, hardware for $49.99. You can find that here. The one advantage the refurbished unit has over the new unit is an ethernet port. The XS 2, on sale for $90, is a also a worth while upgrade. It gives you a USB port so you can play anything on a USB stick on the Roku.
One other issue to note. If you are running your own DNS as we are, the unit will likely fail to connect when you fire it up. After I changed the dhcp server to use external DNS servers the unit worked great. I am sure there is a way to fix this issue but I have not looked into it.
Later,
John
Monday, December 5, 2011
Deal of the Day - 12/5/11
Hello All,
First off, Happy Birthday Carrie Breunig, I hope you enjoy your 25th birthday this year. To everyone else, Christmas has come early and Woot is bringing the treats. Once again it is a Woot-Off at the woot, home.woot, kids.woot, and wine.woot sites. Good luck getting anything done today and my you all score the BOC.
Later,
John
First off, Happy Birthday Carrie Breunig, I hope you enjoy your 25th birthday this year. To everyone else, Christmas has come early and Woot is bringing the treats. Once again it is a Woot-Off at the woot, home.woot, kids.woot, and wine.woot sites. Good luck getting anything done today and my you all score the BOC.
Later,
John
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