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
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Deal of the Day #2 - 11/4/11
Hello All,
Walgreens is giving away 25 free 4x6 prints and a free calendar. Use code: free4x6 for the 25 prints and use code: freeforu for the calendar. This offer expires tomorrow night.
Later,
John
Walgreens is giving away 25 free 4x6 prints and a free calendar. Use code: free4x6 for the 25 prints and use code: freeforu for the calendar. This offer expires tomorrow night.
Later,
John
Deal of the Day - 11/4/11
Hello All,
First off, Happy Birthday Mom! Now on to the deals. Tiger Direct managed to land some of the suddenly hot HP Touchpad's and will be selling them this afternoon. They are selling the 32Gb model with a bunch of accessories for $280. You can find this deal here.
I was able to snag one of these initially for $150 when they were first on clearance. It is not as good as an iPad, and anyone who paid full price, $500, for this over an iPad was a sucker, but for less than $300 it is a worthy addition and works well. You can overclock it, you can install android on it, and WebOS is a decent OS. Overall the web browser and the email client are not as good as the iPad and that is where it falls down. Couple that with the tiny app store compared to the iPad and it is pretty clear why the TouchPad failed. As a media player, flash player, photo viewer, and basic web browsing it works well and it has decent battery life.
The sale starts at 1:30 central time today, and I expect them to be sold out at about 2pm. Good luck.
John
First off, Happy Birthday Mom! Now on to the deals. Tiger Direct managed to land some of the suddenly hot HP Touchpad's and will be selling them this afternoon. They are selling the 32Gb model with a bunch of accessories for $280. You can find this deal here.
I was able to snag one of these initially for $150 when they were first on clearance. It is not as good as an iPad, and anyone who paid full price, $500, for this over an iPad was a sucker, but for less than $300 it is a worthy addition and works well. You can overclock it, you can install android on it, and WebOS is a decent OS. Overall the web browser and the email client are not as good as the iPad and that is where it falls down. Couple that with the tiny app store compared to the iPad and it is pretty clear why the TouchPad failed. As a media player, flash player, photo viewer, and basic web browsing it works well and it has decent battery life.
The sale starts at 1:30 central time today, and I expect them to be sold out at about 2pm. Good luck.
John
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Deal of the Day - 11/3/11
Hello All,
Sellout.woot is selling refurbished Eye-Fi X2 cards for $24.99 shipped to your door. Brand new these cards are $49.99. If you are unfamilar with Eye-Fi cards they are SD cards that allow you to wirelessly upload the pictures and videos you take to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, MobileMe, YouTube, and more sites. As a bonus these are the new cards that allow you to upload the photos directly to your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone so you can upload the pictures anywhere, not just when you are on a wifi network. If you like to take pictures and want to share them as easily as possible, or are interested in backing them up as soon as possible then this is the product for you.
Later,
John
Sellout.woot is selling refurbished Eye-Fi X2 cards for $24.99 shipped to your door. Brand new these cards are $49.99. If you are unfamilar with Eye-Fi cards they are SD cards that allow you to wirelessly upload the pictures and videos you take to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, MobileMe, YouTube, and more sites. As a bonus these are the new cards that allow you to upload the photos directly to your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone so you can upload the pictures anywhere, not just when you are on a wifi network. If you like to take pictures and want to share them as easily as possible, or are interested in backing them up as soon as possible then this is the product for you.
Later,
John
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