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Yeah - even pushing past the obvious technical errors - the deals aren't even close to good either - they're like low-grade department store sales.

The guys on the Slickdeals forums are going through everything:

https://slickdeals.net/ ...and there's nothing really great.

There's a couple of possible sources of this:

1) Companies are just cashing in on the allure of the day, only offering lukewarm deals. I don't think that's all of it though, since you'd get at least a few breakout offers by the make-it-up-in-bulk sellers.

2) Inflation is making it very difficult to offer those make-it-up-in-bulk agreements for a good sale.

3) Tariff threats probably contribute a little too - but they're mostly targetted enough to not have too large a knock-on effect. They shouldn't be dampening the entire ecosystem like we're seeing.

I think we're seeing a bit of a soft recession fear popping up, more than just inflation fears here. Many of these sale prices are higher than a lot of the normal prices - folks seem to be preparing for a economic winter here.

Ryan Fenton

Verizon promised, when they purchase the 700Mhz spectrum in 2007, not to do this for any device which uses the 700Mhz spectrum.

Verizon has been violating this spectrum license agreement with their prepaid phones for awhile now. But as you said, the current head of the FCC is an industry sock puppet, so Verizon can do whatever the hell they want.

In the grand scheme of things, ignoring Verizon's anti-consumer B.S. is one of the lesser sins of this administration. Some Americans are literally dying because they can't afford healthcare they need. But hey, if phone SIM locking and net neutrality being flushed down the toilet make a few people realize they "did a fuck" in 2016, it's a step in the right (or rather, "left") direction.

That's exactly what customers can do whenever a carrier changes their terms of service - you can quit their 2-year or 3-year contract without paying an early termination fee.

Of course the carriers don't exactly advertise this, but that's the way it's always been. Legally, if either side violates or voids contract terms, and the other side is not obligated to continue to honor the contract.

That's how much my iPhone 5S cost 1 year ago.
Granted it was a very YMMV deal and I had to pay additional $20 to some shady eBay shop to unlock it...

Fourthed! I've had inkjets. They clogged constantly, I used to use up half the ink cart cleaning the jets, and then there was ink everywhere inside leaking all over my documents, getting on the rollers, it was a mess.

B&W Laser printers can be had for under $50 on sale. Color laser printers are not much more. Watch newegg deals & slickdeals.net. There's usually a lot of printer sales in March, as everyone gets ready for Tax season.

A good printer, I got a Xerox, can be had for just a bit more. Worth every penny! Mine has a onboard webserver for configs, LPD support built in, etc.

A great tip: Skip WiFi on your printer. Go for Ethernet, and hard-wire it into your WiFi router. Now your WiFi security is not whatever they felt like putting on the printer, but whatever your router offers. DD-WRT for the win. Any WiFi or wired device that can talk to your network can talk to your printer through your router, but the printer is not the weak spot into your network.

No, not really indeed...

You can get Samsung Evo 850 1T (pretty much the best SSD you can get atm) for less than $350 right now, and it was $325 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sam...

I've seen several Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales where you can get Samsung Evo 850 500Gb for around $140 (so $280 for 1Tb):
http://slickdeals.net/f/833308...

You can get SanDisk (which is WD now) 960Gb for $260 right now, and it was $200 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/San...

Nice base system with Pentium G3220:

http://slickdeals.net/f/829851...

I owned two PocketPC devices back in 1999. They ran linux horribly, and sucked at everything else. I can say one thing for sure: SELL THEM. I'm pretty sure you could get $20-40 for each of them. When you're done with that, buy a no contract ZTE Zinger and don't activate it, normally $40, but at one time they were $10. YES $10 without a contract:
http://slickdeals.net/f/733309...

I own 2 of them as backups to my Nexus 5. Best dirt cheap phone ever. Dual core 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 200, 512M ram, near stock Android 4.4.2. Even Google Earth runs reasonably well.

Came to say this. If you want a great build, include these:

An Asus Strix GTX 970
A Seasonic Platinum 1050w
A 120mm/140mm CPU cooler, at least a Hyper 212 Evo
A 4xxx Intel chip
A SSD
A case with lots of ventilation so you won't need extra fans. For maximum Wife Acceptance Factor, consider mini-ITX.

Noise? What noise? If your motherboard is willing to shut off your CPU fan at idle, you'll be at 0db (except for electrical noise). Even during heavy gaming the thing will barely make a whisper.

Need more help? SPCR has you covered.

Came to say this. If you want a great build, include these:

An Asus Strix GTX 970
A Seasonic Platinum 1050w
A 120mm/140mm CPU cooler, at least a Hyper 212 Evo
A 4xxx Intel chip
A SSD
A case with lots of ventilation so you won't need extra fans. For maximum Wife Acceptance Factor, consider mini-ITX.

Noise? What noise? If your motherboard is willing to shut off your CPU fan at idle, you'll be at 0db (except for electrical noise). Even during heavy gaming the thing will barely make a whisper.

Need more help? SPCR has you covered.

I don't believe so. Just look at the picture in this article. That's some extreme stacking going on. There's a degree of competition and collusion in all of the tech markets. But at the end of the day, you are still going to get a space age product that is improving and becoming cheaper over time.

32 GB get as low as $11-14. 64 GB is $20-30. 128 GB is more like $70-80. It's not a stretch to say that it is harder to fit more in a smaller area, the resulting product is more valuable, and some customers will gladly pay more $/GB for density. For everyone else, there's the 32-64 GB cards.

Here's a current gen deal: xbox 360 for $150
Deal has expired; but they come and go.

http://slickdeals.net/f/555149...

Oh, you mean the xbox one or PS4; well those are the latest gen, but xbox360/PS3 are still current gen.
In fact, they are much better consoles to own for now. More games. Cheap games. Used games available.

I love stupid people.

Here's a current gen deal: xbox 360 for $150
Deal has expired; but they come and go.

http://slickdeals.net/f/555149...

Oh, you mean the xbox one or PS4; well those are the latest gen, but xbox360/PS3 are still current gen.
In fact, they are much better consoles to own for now. More games. Cheap games. Used games available.

I agree about the limitations - but to buy a 4K TV for the "wow 4K TV!" factor and yet miss including information on the HDMI 1.4 limitations which are not going to be fixed? I disagree with encouraging people to buy such things without showing that it's not as perfect as it sounds.

It's not at all rare to see 120hz at 1080p. You can buy TV's that do that which are twice the size for the same price. So that's not really "rare". We're talking $400 60" tv's here, if black friday is a legitimate comparison. Here's a non black friday deal for military for a $400 40" that does better than the seiki, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KDL-40R450A-40-Inch-1080p-Black/dp/B00AWKBZQQ or http://slickdeals.net/f/6506806-sams-club-50-tcl-led-1080p-120hz-hdtv-389-fs .

120hz at 1080p was rare in 2009.

YYMV refers to "Your Yodeling May Vary". It is used in reference to deals at high altitudes (especially those in the Alps) where the changes in air thickness and the respective region of the deal may cause some variation in the type and duration of your yodeling.

I have been using these, makes the cost negligible. There always seems to be something similar on slickdeals.net http://slickdeals.net/f/5936528-10-pack-Canon-PGI-225-CLI-226-Compatible-Inkjet-Cartridges-w-Chip-7-41-2-42-4-99-SH
TonerDeal via Amazon has dropped their price on a 10-pack of Canon compatible PGI-225/CLI-226 inkjet cartridges to $2.42 plus $4.99 S&H. (Avgs out @ $3.71/5-pack or about $0.74/cart shipped.)

With each 10-pack order, you'll receive:

Qty.2 - PGI-225 Black (PGBK)
Qty.2 - CLI-226 Black (BK)
Qty.2 - CLI-226 Cyan (C)
Qty.2 - CLI-226 Magenta (M)
Qty.2 - CLI-226 Yellow (Y)

Good reviews on Amazon (rated 4 out of 5 stars). According to the product specs, these (Canon) compatible ink cartridges are ISO-9001 certified remanufactured inkjet cartridges.

Splashtop shipped an unencrypted remote access solution for nearly 1.5 years without giant disclaimers.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-4033850.html

I'm supposed to trust them now that it's finally encrypted?

1) Segment your home network so that a compromised windows box can't reach your other computers. Use 2 or more NAT/wired/wireless boxes between your cable-modem and your computers. (I do much the same to keep my wireless and guest traffic away from my personal machines.)

1a) Ideally put a hub in there and silently monitor the network traffic (ON A SECOND MACHINE!) from the WIndows box by port, destination, and TIME OF DAY!

2) Get a bootable CD/DVD of Linux, a 2gig (or larger, though many older computers can't support larger than 2gigs) external drive, and make ntfsclone your friend. ntfsclone runs under linux. I've used it numerous times to back up and restore winNTFS partitions. Nothing like turning back the clock.

3) Restore frequently.

4) Use chrome rather than IE for webbrowsing. Put IE on its most restrictive settings anyway.

5) Watch out the "freebies" and downloadable stuff. To say nothing of drive-bys.

6) Reconsider Macs. They just work. You can get something decent for $1k new, or even $600 new, or for a lot less off cowboom. ($350? Though watch out for older hardware not running the latest versions of OSX.) (Also, you might check on educational pricing. Don't know if Apple does that for grade-school, but they've been lenient in the past.)

N) Graphics are pretty lean on the Lenovo T400 laptop. Processing power is low too. It might work on the lowest settings. Or you might need to consider a desktop. Newegg often has good sales, if you are comfortable putting the parts together. Try: http://hot-deals.org/ or http://slickdeals.net/.

N+1) You might suggest his friends try LOTRO too. It's a lot cheaper without the monthly fee! The recent release (as of last monday) now works with WINE on macs & linux, though you need a patch... And an official mac port is on the way.

...or they like free queso.

I just wish someone would make 3.5" drives besides OCZ. Hell - I wish someone would make 5.25" drives.

Why? You see an almost perfect scaling. The cost of 1x1024GB ~= 2x512GB ~= 4x256GB ~= 8x128GB. And since you can already put $2500 worth of flash in a 2.5" drive, what do you need 3.5" drives for? $10,000 drives? Or 5.25", $100,000 drives? The way things are going it's more likely my next SSD would be a mSATA drive...

Refer to SLC and MLC and lifespan.

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/beginners-guide/slc-vs-mlc-ssds-2/

Larger form factors would allow larger SLC SSD drives.

Also,
1TB of SSD ~ $720 = http://slickdeals.net/f/4744708-for-6-15-120gb-corsair-force-series-3-ssd-79-99-after-20-00-mirebate-ships-free

-AI

China is much more capitalist than almost anybody else, they have more free market than USA has.

Here is a debate on it

and here is a transcript (PDF)

Obviously the audience was quite biased, too many expatriates, and one of the pro-motion team members was a staunch socialist himself, so totally wrong person to argue pro-capitalism, but in case you can watch it if you want.

Both Lowe and Home Depot stores in my area (suburban DC) have regular sales on a $9 standard pear-shaped E26 LED bulbs like those ones: http://slickdeals.net/forums/attachment.php?s=31e54508f1333ca3124e8f09193b7d10&attachmentid=1150528&d=1334012983 Even when there's no sale, there's a selection of LED bulbs in mid-$20 to mid-$30 price range. What is so novel about this one?

Well for starters the Philips is 60W vs the one you posted is 40W equivalent. Also the one you posted is rated at 25k hours vs Philips 30k hours. A much better deal would seem to be this one, the only issue being the color temp perhaps:

7-Watt Collection LED 5000K Light Bulb (CL-L60A1-D , 40 Watt Equivalent) $6.50 + Free Shipping
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/72690/newegg-7watt-collection-led-5000k-light-bulb-cll60a1d-40-watt-equivalent?token=AAQBBQAAAAAEPECnIA

The cost is actually $350 after rebate. No contract. Not free
Still this is an amazing price for a top of the line smart phone.Similar phones typically sell for upwards of $550 at launch.

They actually were for a couple of weeks at Microsoft stores. now they are giving away $25 gift certificates.
http://slickdeals.net/f/4120241-FREE-25-GC-to-Microsoft-Store-if-you-own-a-working-Smartphone-Android-Blackberry-iPhone-PalmOS-WebOS-some-Symbian-B-M-Only-Smoked-by-Windows-Phone-thru-April-12-2012

Next time watch http://slickdeals.net/ or try http://www.cowboom.com/.
You can get a very nice HP laptop for ~$900 off slickdeals every 1-3 months or so. Nice as in it plays games (lotro/warcraft) at maxed DX11 graphics with a decent refresh rate.

I have an HP dv7 ($925) laptop and an ACER ($280, walmart) laptop. Both work fine with Fedora. Good graphics. Good sound. Good ethernet. Everything worked pretty much right out of the box. (I could boot into rescue mode and use it all.) (Well, the HP needs me to unload and reload the linux sound kernel module before plugging in headphones will disconnect the built-in speakers, but other than that it's pretty good.)

Cooling worked out-of-the-box, stress tested with multiple concurrent kernel builds and >85% sustained system load. Sustained as in days of testing. Temperature testing, under Linux and win7, shows the HP hitting a max of 73C. Even that's pretty hard to hit. I usually see it max-out a few degrees lower.

I still have a little trouble with the HP getting the secondary radeon graphics interface to come up quite right under linux. But for 2D, it's just fine to use the alternate lower-power video interface.

Fedora seems to pick up the lid sensor, and then it's a simple matter of configuring that to do whatever you want. (There are different "sleep" options, with different levels of power consumption.)

Macs are great. They work pretty much out of the box, with very little setup. Linux will take some playing with.

I will say this much about HP: My laptop arrived with a bad harddrive. A number of sectors gave media-read-errors. Curiously, win7 said everything was fine. Even the SMART tests. Linux, of course, had kittens. 10k errors in the on-disk SMART log, tons of errors being logged, dd reporting bad reads, etc. HP believed me when I called them, gave me no grief about using Linux, had me run tests from a hidden BIOS menu, confirmed the drive was bad, mailed me a replacement, and let me install it myself. Very sweet of them! I was impressed!

On the darker side, my HP does not seem to be as "sturdy" as my macbook. (If that word can ever be applied to a laptop.)

You may find it worthwhile to check out HP's warranty program. (It's similar to apple-care.)

HP offers something like a 10-day (or is it 2-week?) return policy. Walmart is similar.

Best thing you can do it try one out...

PS: Check out http://slickdeals.net/. They have great discounts on HPs every 2-6 weeks or so over the past 6 months, such as This Deal.

PPS: My HP came with all 4 primary paritions used. (Win7-boot, Win7, Recovery, HP-tools.) The work around is to burn recovery disks from win7, then use the HP tools to remove the recovery partition, then install Linux on the extra space freed up. (After first shrinking the win7 partition.) (It should go without saying to image the drive under Linux with dd before you start... Just in case...)

I have an HP dv7 ($925) laptop and an ACER ($280, walmart) laptop. Both work fine with Fedora. Good graphics. Good sound. Good ethernet. Everything worked pretty much right out of the box. (I could boot into rescue mode and use it all.) (Well, the HP needs me to unload and reload the linux sound kernel module before plugging in headphones will disconnect the built-in speakers, but other than that it's pretty good.)

Cooling worked out-of-the-box, stress tested with multiple concurrent kernel builds and >85% sustained system load. Sustained as in days of testing. Temperature testing, under Linux and win7, shows the HP hitting a max of 73C. Even that's pretty hard to hit. I usually see it max-out a few degrees lower.

I still have a little trouble with the HP getting the secondary radeon graphics interface to come up quite right under linux. But for 2D, it's just fine to use the alternate lower-power video interface.

Fedora seems to pick up the lid sensor, and then it's a simple matter of configuring that to do whatever you want. (There are different "sleep" options, with different levels of power consumption.)

Macs are great. They work pretty much out of the box, with very little setup. Linux will take some playing with.

I will say this much about HP: My laptop arrived with a bad harddrive. A number of sectors gave media-read-errors. Curiously, win7 said everything was fine. Even the SMART tests. Linux, of course, had kittens. 10k errors in the on-disk SMART log, tons of errors being logged, dd reporting bad reads, etc. HP believed me when I called them, gave me no grief about using Linux, had me run tests from a hidden BIOS menu, confirmed the drive was bad, mailed me a replacement, and let me install it myself. Very sweet of them! I was impressed!

On the darker side, my HP does not seem to be as "sturdy" as my macbook. (If that word can ever be applied to a laptop.)

You may find it worthwhile to check out HP's warranty program. (It's similar to apple-care.)

HP offers something like a 10-day (or is it 2-week?) return policy. Walmart is similar.

Best thing you can do it try one out...

PS: Check out http://slickdeals.net/. They have great discounts on HPs every 2-6 weeks or so over the past 6 months, such as This Deal.

PPS: My HP came with all 4 primary paritions used. (Win7-boot, Win7, Recovery, HP-tools.) The work around is to burn recovery disks from win7, then use the HP tools to remove the recovery partition, then install Linux on the extra space freed up. (After first shrinking the win7 partition.) (It should go without saying to image the drive under Linux with dd before you start... Just in case...)

This might be a good reason for me to buy a TouchPad. Good hardware , great price and it's an Android Tablet now.

Good luck. This page may help you.

Can't find my password right now, so I'm posting this Anon

But I have to say: WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE RAZOR GUYS THINKING?

Look at the specs:

• - $2,800.00 shipping in 2011Q4.

  (Target dates never slip right? Where did I put that Duke Nuke'em receipt?)

• .
• - 2.8GHz Intel® CoreTM i7 2640M Processor
• - 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory
• - 17.3" LED Backlit Display (1920x1080)
• - NVIDIA GeForce® GT 555M with NVIDIA® OptimusTM Technology
• - 2GB Dedicated GDDR5 Video Memory
• - Built-in HD Webcam
• - Integrated 60Wh Battery
• - 320GB 7200rpm SATA HDD
• - Wireless Network 802.11 b/g/n Compatible
• - 16.81" (Width) x 10.9" (Depth) x 0.88" (Height); 6.97lbs (Weight)

Whereas I bought this HP laptop back in May (2011):

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2925383

• - $925.00 delivered in 2011Q2 (May/June).

  (Was $875 before I added 6770M graphics, Bluetooth, & 9-cell battery upgrade.)

• .
• - 2nd Gen (Sandy Bridge) Intel Quad Core i7-2630QM (2.0 GHz)
• - 6GB DDR3 RAM
• - 17.3" diagonal HD+ HP BrightView LED Display (1600 x 900)
• - 1GB Radeon HD 6770M GDDR5 Graphics, HDMI, VGA
• - 750GB 5400RPM HD (or change to 640GB 7200rpm)
• - 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (96Wh Battery)
• - Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
• - HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• - Premium Beats audio and HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer for superb music with virtual surround sound
• - Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN
• - Bluetooth.
• - Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Now granted, I got the older lower-rez screen. (By choice, I might add. HP was & is offering the higher resolution 1920x1080 screens if you want them. I preferred a higher framerate and lower price.)

And granted, less RAM (6vs8), less video RAM (1vs2), and a slower processor (2.0vs2.8). Of course you'd expect to see that with a 6-9 month time discrepancy. And HP does offer upgrades on all of these, even the video RAM, for a little extra.

In contrast, the graphics cards are quite close in capability. Source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

(I run LOTRO with all settings maxed at >50fps in the busy zones...)

Pricewise, you can buy **THREE** of the HPs months ago for the price of one of the new Razers next Christmas.

What's more, fedora installed on my HP relatively smoothly. (Ok, granted, I do need to unload & reload the hda_intel_foo kernel sound driver to get the speakers to turn off when headphones are plugged in. And I am still working on getting the 3D hardware accelerated graphics to engage properly under linux. But overall, it's surprisingly tolerant of Linux out of the box! And with a 750 gig harddrive, I have room to play around!)

One thing I would like to mention: Imaging (dd if=/dev/sda of=./sda_image) the harddrive under Linux showed my HP laptop's harddrive was failing out of the box. (10k errors in the SMART log are kind of a giveaway.) Yet every test under Win7 showed the drive was fine. Even SMART tests. My kudos and thanks to HP, who believed me when I said my drive was failing, didn't even blink when I mentioned using Linux on it, verified the failure via BIOS testing, overnight mailed me the new drive, and let me replace it myself. That was sweet of them!

for those interested, here's a link to an updated forum thread with prices and status at many on-line and physical stores:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862

The Acer Iconia has been selling at $399 with a $100 gift card or rebate at several stores recently (Best Buy, Amazon, Target, etc.) - which is effectively a $299 price point. The Iconia is pretty much a piece of shit, but I bet they were selling a lot of them at that price.

The Asus Transformer can be purchased at $349 or less right now.

The problem is that right now it is still too expensive to manufacture a decent iPad competitor and sell it at $200. Each HP TouchPad, for example, was estimated to cost about $300 to manufacture. Costs will continue to drop though, and we will see Android tablets start to each into the iPad's market share - just as we are currently seeing in the smart phone market.

Even with the loss in market share, Apple will still continue to dominate the high-end market and make huge profits - just like they do with iPhones and Macs today.

50 MB file limit, amazon lets you upload 2 GB. And upgrading Amazon to 20 GB is only 69+ cents a year, and includes a free music album: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2793945 And Amazon's servers are really nice, and the interface and streaming is nice. And free storage for all purchased songs :)

So the rumors are true: according to the article all Sandy Bridge CPUs are Socket LGA 1155, replacing the 18 month old LGA 1366 and 17 month old LGA 1156.

I'm all for bigger and better but it's a pain to throw away a $500 motherboard every 18 months because Intel decided they want to change the socket.

On the other hand the latest 6-core processors from AMD still support 3+ yr old AM2+ motherboards. It's nice to see someone still looking out for the budget shopper.

The brick-and-mortar shopping experience is still worth it if I want something now or doing what to worry about paying for shipping (usually I buy *more* than I need at Amazon for small purchases to qualify for free shipping).

Its easy to spend exactly what you need for free shipping with tools like
Amazon Filler Item Finder and Slick Fillers

By using a combination of key words (a bunch from http://www.slickdeals.net/) on bing.com (especially during the holiday season), I was able to save between 5% to 30% on a bunch of items. I knew M$ was trying to buy results and did not care - $1500 cash back in addition to more from rebates and sometimes coupons which worked with cash back is more money in my pocket....

As for the person who says it costs more to buy thru bing - I don't think so - there are some items which go on sale at specific merchants and then become awesome deals with high BCB percentages... some recent purchases: i7 980X for $780 delivered, X58 Classified 3-way SLI for $321 (includes $30 rebate), 8% on everything purchased from ebay, LCD TVs, Canon EOS 7D combo deal, newegg deals, etc. - the program has saved me a lot of money since November of 2009. Wish I had used it when it first came out.

Check out slickdeals site and you will see the posts which people have made to help people save money on all sorts of items... Yesterday it was 30% off your purchase from endless shoes (Amazon's shoe site). There are good deals to be had if you know what other places are charging.

Dell Latitude XT2 with the same sort of touch and pen technology = $2,686.00

HP Tm2 with the same kind of pen and touch technology as the Dell Latitude XT2, and faster gfx = $700

In that case, you're a week late. Newegg had them on sale last week for $150. They'll be that price again soon, though. And I strongly suspect you'll find a reason not to buy one.

Exactly. I suspect the increased search traffic is due to BCB, or Bing Cash Back if you're not into deals websites. Almost every single slickdeal post in the month of December had BCB as part of their slick prices. I used it myself for several purchases I was planning on making anyway.

Basically when I wanted to get 20% cash back on a purchase at Walmart I went to bing and searched "Walmart Bluray" and it returned an ad offering cash back at Walmart.

I didn't want to provide the links in my post because that would have been a really really shill like thing to do. But here's one I took advantage of last month.

It's not hard to find several more.

Don't forget, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming up! Make sure you hit some of the sites that keep an eye out for really good deals on computer components, like FatWallet and SlickDeals

I once got flamed on Slick Deals for asking people to show restraint and common sense after someone posted a deal for a free CD from Project Gutenburg. People were ordering tons of disks as if they were getting some special deal. I don't blame Canonical at all for placing limits.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1562761 is the slickied thread, there's an in-thread wiki if you're not familiar with sd. It's only good for one person/one address, but I suppose if you ply students with free sodas you could get a bunch of keys.

i have access to 2 msdnaa accounts
http://msdn04.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Storefront.aspx?campus=ieee_cs_r9&np1=112

http://msdn70.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Storefront.aspx?campus=santbabasing_cs&np1=112

win 7 was available for a month on the 1st link, but was then withdrawn

it never even appeared on the 2nd one

and yes, i have tried logging in

check this

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&p=22981341
the 4th post on the page discusses why it was removed
also try searching for
windows 7 withdrawn from msdnaa
in google...

luckily i got it before it was removed

www.slickdeals.net

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=13236&t=1374013

(both from last week, took 30 seconds to find)

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=13236&t=1374013

(both from last week, took 30 seconds to find)

A Sony PRS 505 can be had for $200.00

Random observations:

- Why reboot? Uptime on this (linux) notebook is currently 7 days. I usually only reboot a linux box ONLY when a software upgrade requires it. I haven't rebooted my (accursed) XP office-mandated notebook since February (more than three weeks).

- Suspend / Hibernation (OS independent comment) are your friends. XP comes back pretty fast, linux not necessarily so quickly, but still LOTS faster than a cold boot for either OS.

- The heaver the OS (XP or linux) and the apps runnning, the longer the boot times, or for that matter the recovery from hibernation / suspension. There are lots of resources on the t00bz for slimming down XP, or for minimal linux. For linux suspend to disk, remember you need a swap partition at least as large as your ram.

- According to Slickdeals , Dell is selling Mini-9 netbooks with a SSD and Ubuntu for $199. Why screw with antique hardware when new schtuff is that cheap. Remember, your time setting this up is worth money.

- You're (planning on) rebooting linux every morning why (again)?

Hope this helps......

Red

Another reason to use Server 08 over vista.

Microsoft offers a free licence to server 2008 along with some other software to all college students. It's what I'm using now

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=943060