Black Friday Deals

[RPM 26374]

Found these at Walmart for $9.88 (Reg $24.88). At that price they are a great stocking stuffer/emergency gift. Surprisingly great sound with phone app controls. 8+ hours of playtime in each earbud. 24+ hours of extra playtime from the charging case.

JLab Go Air Pop True Wireless Earbuds w/ Charging Case.

Harbor Freight

FRANKLIN 17 ft. Reach, Type IA, 300 lb. Multi-Task Ladder $99.99 (Compare to LITTLE GIANT LADDERS 16517-803 at $220)

IN STORE ONLY! Helluva deal on a handy ladder. They will go fast.

[TwiceHorn 31646]

Yeah, those earbuds are great for the money.

[SimonBolivar 10961]

I have those earbuds as my backup pair (I listen to history audiobooks as I sleep) and they're solid for that price.

[immamac 43373]

Flash and HDD storage are going to be cheap cheap cheap for BF, but the bottom may be further down. If you can get anything for sub $60/TB of flash or $12.50/TB for HDD you should probably buy it. 

[Pato del Muerto 52664]

10 minutes ago, immamac said:

Flash and HDD storage are going to be cheap cheap cheap for BF, but the bottom may be further down. If you can get anything for sub $60/TB of flash or $12.50/TB for HDD you should probably buy it. 

How does one parse the $500 laptops when one does not really know how specs affect performance?  
Buying for kids, previously on chromebooks, and primary use will be school work.  Little to no gaming. 
 

Costco has an HP with 16g memory and 1tb storage for that price, plus their 2 year warranty.   As good as anything?  Wait for Monday deals?

[TwiceHorn 31646]

14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How does one parse the $500 laptops when one does not really know how specs affect performance?  
Buying for kids, previously on chromebooks, and primary use will be school work.  Little to no gaming. 
 

Costco has an HP with 16g memory and 1tb storage for that price, plus their 2 year warranty.   As good as anything?  Wait for Monday deals?

Do you really need/want anything beyond a Chromebook?  If you aren't gaming or doing video/photo editing or something that involves a particular app, I'd just stick with Chromebooks.  No muss, no fuss.  And if they want to turn into budding coders/geeks, can enable Linux and install just about anything Linux offers.

But, for general Windoze, I'd think at least 8GB of RAM and i5 or better, currently 14th gen, so probably back to 11th or 12th is satisfactory.  Probably 256GB minimum disk.  Then there's screen res, touch screen, backlit keyboard.

Edited Wednesday at 09:16 PM by TwiceHorn

[SimonBolivar 10961]

48 minutes ago, immamac said:

Flash and HDD storage are going to be cheap cheap cheap for BF, but the bottom may be further down. If you can get anything for sub $60/TB of flash or $12.50/TB for HDD you should probably buy it. 

*Looks over at 40TB of free space on the Plex Server* Jesus I need to stock up this Thanksgiving!

[jimmyjazz 46351]

I remember when I laughed about how much memory an early hard drive had compared to a floppy disk.