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I'm on the left coast and we have Macy's. I have never seen or heard of Hecht's.

What makes them "easy"? I want to get the $15 Flash Drive, but part of the price break includes easy rebates. It will cost me $25 out of pocket, but I could go to Fry's and get one for $10 (it's half the storage) out of pocket. Want to know what "easy" means before I head to Fry's (15 minutes further away).

I saw this exact same model at Office Depot on display and it looked really nice. It was hooked up to a DVD player though so I dunno what it looks like with SD or HD tv hooked up. I am really really tempted to buy this right now, but I just spent a lot of money on my laptop (a lot for me, a college student) and XMAS is coming up. Anyone see the price of LCD TVs around 26"-32" coming down in price this upcoming year?

Sleeping! I am moving from Orange County, California to Phoenix on January 1st. I have to be on the road by 5:00am on the 1st, so I plan to be asleep early on the 31st. Going to college!

Didn't get a chance to check it out on Friday. What was their "big" deal?

Every single time I return something without a receipt I get it for the lowest price it was ever sold for.

No complaints! I have a desktop that has a lot better hardware, but I am stuck on the laptop! It's not for games and the like, but it's perfect for surfing the web and doing basic stuff. Actually, now that I think of it the battery life is horrible. I think I got an hour and 20 minutes on it yesterday. I think after Xmas I will upgrade to the 8-cell batter on Toshiba's webstie.

An HD plasma wouldn't make a difference. If you have any HD tv be it plasma, LCD, DLP it will make Standard Definition TV look worse. These tv's are built for resolution that is a lot higher than that of Standard Definition. No offense, but you should have done some research before buying the TV, if you did this would be one of the first things you discovered. I found this out when I was in the market for an HDTV. You are basically going to have to watch only HD channels, tolerate the quality of the SD channels on your new tv, or just wait until all channels are broadcast in HD (may be awhile, some say a year or two others say 5+).

Standard Definition channels won't look better on an HDTV. They are compressed and have to be upconverted by the TV so it doesn't look good. It's the sad reality of HD and the current state of HD channels being offered. This is why there is a debate between EDTV and HDTV. EDTV doesn't look as good on HD channels, but it makes standard definition channels look really good. You will have to live with it until most channels switch to HD.

I did the same thing $15 a month, but am seriously thinking of caneling and just paying the difference. The whole AOL rebate thing was a fiasco/nightmare that I almost want to just eat the $70 difference and still enjoy a great deal on a decent laptop.

I know some stuff about computers and am willing to share my thoughts on those things, but RAM isn't one of them. I know how to change it, but I usually ask someone what kind I should get to make things compatible. I also know nothing about BIOS, which is something I would really like to learn.

Ya I posted it in the laptop thread a week ago, but it got lost. I wanted to make its own thread because a lot of people bought this laptop and I want everyone to see it because I think it could be very helpful.

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1124514&ct=DS&soid=1163179&BV_SessionID=@@@@1763607093.1132420720@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchaddgfefgidgcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0 You can see the manual, what kind of RAM, chipset, etc...If you ever need tech help this info will come in handy. If you go to Toshibadirect.com you can buy an 8-cell battery for $100 which gives you close to 3 hours of battery life. http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=294716&seg=HHO

Newegg is having a sale on a HDTV ready 32" lcd tv for $890. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824179026

That's not totally fair. Especially after Thanksgiving. I got in line at 8:45 pm and was 15th. Around 3am, I had to use the restroom so my cousin held my spot as I went to a gas station for 10 minutes. I was in line for a total of 8 hours and 15 at the gas station/car on the way to the station. People should be allowed to relieve themselves.

It's on their website, but its almost $20 after shipping and tax, which is still good, but I was hopting to get one around $10-15.

That's strange AOL doesn't offer a @27.30 plan.

I need/want a flash drive, would like to spend as little as possible, but want at least 256mb.

Wow, was it a culture shock! Got there are 8:45 and was the 15th person in line. The night wasn't so bad, the people for the most part were cool, but some were just awful. The entire management of the CC I went to was horrible. I am not exagerating, when I say this. When the doors opened I got into the laptop line with my voucher. I was 10th in line....It took 2 hours and 45 minutes until I got to the register to ring my order up! One lady was at the register for 45 minutes with 3 managers looking at the computer not knowing what to do. They refused to open up another register and get the people in line. Then their $250 rebate for AOL wasn't working so you had to pay full price then in a couple days it would be credited back, but people bitched saying it was false advertising and they gave us all $250 gift cards to be used to bring the price down. It was a total mess, but I got my laptop!

mine had 35, but they started passing out more vouchers, I heard they had 45.

I like CC's Polaroid. I went into the store and looked at a few and this is very nice quality and will be $188 I believe. It's also HD Ready.

I don't think so. They usually have a deal with an outside company that allows you to just put both services on one bill. For example, in Phoenix they have a deal with Qwest phone and DSL. Dish Networks does this in SoCal with SBC.

eMachines are nice computers. I have had 2 and they both worked great. I even installed a nice video card into my AGP slot and I have played some solid games with solid graphics. PC Mag rated eMachines number 1 in customer satisfaction in 2004 and HP/Compaq at the bottom. The biggest myth out there is that HP and Compaq are solid machines. People get false impressions on things just based on the price. Just because something is less expensive doesn't make it an inferior product. There are better computers out there, but most of those computers are intended for people who use it for very specific things.

No, all they'll ask you is for your credit card number or banking information. You may not even need to give them that, you could pay by check every month.

It's late and I am bored, but I am an English major so I am being picky. You are wrong. When you say, "What is the worst store to avoid" you are saying what store not to avoid. The worst store to avoid suggests it's the worst idea to avoid that particular store. "What is the best store to avoid" suggests your best option to avoid a store, which is what your intention of the thread is.