Gadget Gal's daily deals: MacBook Air, Asus Eee PC netbook, Canon All-in-One photo printer
Summary: A MacBook Air, Asus Eee PC Netbook, and a Canon MP480 All-in-One Photo Printer. Here are your daily deals for Thursday, March 26, straight from the Gadget Gal:1.
A MacBook Air, Asus Eee PC Netbook, and a Canon MP480 All-in-One Photo Printer. Here are your daily deals for Thursday, March 26, straight from the Gadget Gal:
1. If you're thinking of a new laptop, but don't want to lug around a heavy computer, then check out the MacBook Air. Normally $1,599, you can get the Apple 13.3-inch MacBook Air on sale from MacMall.com for only $1,099.99. The laptop has a 1.6GHZ 2GB RAM 80GB Hard Drive (MB003LL/A).
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2. The MacBook Air may be light in weight, but netbooks are even lighter. Check out the Asus Eee PC 901 8.9-inch Netbook for just $249.99 from ZipZoomFly.com. Regularly $299, the netbook weighs just 2.43 pounds, making it an inexpensive solution for those needing a simple solution to an easy-to-carry laptop.
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3. And now for something completely different: If you're looking for a printer to pair with your new laptop, try the Canon MP480 All-in-One Photo Printer for $74.99. The printer is regularly $165, but you can get it for just under $75 at Amazon or Newegg.com.
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Not quite correct on the Macbook Air.
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/families/macbook_air/
You missed comparing it to the Samsung x360
wrong price for netbook
Lenovo X200s is light as a netbook
is a no-compromise laptop if one eschews a DVD
drive. It's available in the low $1,000 range
if one catches the periodic promotions that
Lenovo puts on, or has access to the corporate
affiliate programs.
With an 8 cell battery, the X200s only weighs
3.05 lb.
Those who need an optical drive can get a thin
and light external burner from Newegg.com for
between $50-80 depending on brand (Samsung, Sony).
Too bad the thin and light comparo that ZDnet ran
(see separate article elsewhere in this web site)
featuring the Dell Adamo, MacBook Air, etc. only
featured the Lenovo X301. If they had featured
the X200s as well, Lenovo might have run away
with the best bang for the buck honors. (The
X301 was lighter than all non-Mac comers, as much as
1 or more lbs lighter).
I'm very happy with my year old Lenovo X61, which tips the scales at 3.1 lb with a 4 cell battery (even had it weighed at the supermarket deli counter to
confirm its weight). Just upgraded the hard disk
to a whopping 500 GB, and will add Win 7 when it
comes out (downgraded it's original Vista Business
to XP Pro when I first got it).
I'll upgrade my laptop when either
- Lenovo works wonders on its Tablet PC. The
X200 Tablet weighs 3.5 lb. I might bite if
Lenovo gets the weight down to something under
3 lb. A newer CPU would also help.
- a new generation of CPUs comes out (quad core?)
and Lenovo gets its X200s successor down to close to
2 lb.
Canon All-in-One printer