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I see the "that's not the real ad" conspiracy comments made every year, and still have yet to see one single instance that these ad scans turn out to be any different than the ones that arrive in the Thanksgiving Day newspapers. Not once, and this is over many, many years of getting ad scans.....well before this or other BF ad sites cropped up. (Those were the days.....running around all over the 'net, following rumors, trying to find the scans before they disappeared......not like today.)

It's a laptop so has only two memory slots. The memory is arranged as a 2GB and a 1GB, so your suggestion is pointless. A memory upgrade is almost useless with that laptop.....upgrading from 3GB to 4GB would give no worthwhile benefit at all.

I agree with Brad. We live in a small town and while we've been camping out at various stores for decades, the way we've been doing BF has changed over the last couple of years. First, the deals just haven't been compelling enough to sit for up to a day or longer at BB or wherever. Last year, Amazon was our first choice for BF shopping. By 4AM, we'd bought almost everything we'd been planning on, and with Prime, almost all of it was delivered on Saturday. The, we leisurely went out to the baby mall that's in our town. Shopped the JCP and Belk's there much more awake, had no urgency to scoop the doorbusters because we'd been sitting outside for hours on end.....instead, walked, looked, bought as wanted. Much easier time and less stress in the end.

Since the early 1980's, but the last few years, the "deals" have become anything but a deal and not worth sitting in line for a day. Guess just a sign of the economy. The last two years, have been much more an online BF'er, esp. with Amazon and Newegg. We have Amazon Prime so we buy on BF, overnight ship for $3.99 and have it Saturday. Gotta love Prime! But we did venture out last year and hit a few stores, notably JCP. Got some tremendous savings there last year on necessaries we'd been putting off.....coats, etc.

Did quite a bit online last year, mostly from Amazon and some from Newegg. Saved a bunch of time, effort, and money, and all our orders went through and arrived the next day. Prime membership does help.

That 255 is a nice priced unit, too bad it's not the wide screen one, though. After having lived with the "standard" width screen GPS from Garmin for 2 years, the wide screen is really the only way to go. Just makes it so much easier to view your surroundings, roads, etc., esp. if you zoom in while in city driving, etc.

On the page linked above, it says minimum of 5 per store, so there'll be at least 5. Some stores, esp. larger ones, will probably have more, but some will have only 5. To assume anything else is pure guesswork.

Wow! That is quite an assumption you have there! In reality, I own a computer shop and have been building, repairing, networking businesses, etc., for well more than a decade. I entered the computer repair/sales/etc. scene back in '93, when I had to retire from my original line of work as an RN---ICU, ER---stress from the job made my Chron's disease worse and I had to quit. So, I followed my interest in computers, began building my own back in the early '90's, worked in a small shop, got a lot of OJT, followed that with some formal education, opened my own business about 12 years ago and have been nicely successful with it. Granted, I'm located in a very small town, but I do well. From my experience, most failures of computers are more software related and are typically self-inflicted by the user. Hardware failures, while they do occur, can be mitigated by choosing quality components, but that doesn't always stop that----got burned quite badly years ago by the IBM Deathstar hard drive debacle. But I see as many Compaqs, HPs, Dells as I see emachines fail from poor hardware....about a wash actually. So, your poor and misguided assumption that only you have experience with pc's and no one else can possibly know anything is severely misguided. (My first computer build was with an Intel 8088 cpu.....turbo for a big 12MHz speed!) Sometimes when you ASSume something, it comes back to bite you in your glutes.

Seems there is another laptop to throw into the mix......from BB of all places. Looks like they'll have an HP laptop, set up like the $249 Acer from last week, for $197 on BF. BB's doorbusters 2009, including a $197 HP laptop.

It does appear there could indeed be a secret sale item or two from BB this year.....like an HP laptop for $197. Doorbuster 2009 items, including an HP laptop for $197.

As was mentioned above, you are incorrect. Skip back to "Page 3" and look in the upper right corner, you'll see the 1TB external hd pictured. The description is what you're reading on "Page 5" of the scanned ad....and that disconnect between the picture and the description is just a function of who scanned the ad. Both are external drives. I don't think I've ever seen an internal hard drive on the shelves at Target. True, a couple of internals are listed on Target's website, but neither are available in store.

The major differences between the 265WT and 1350T are: 1350T has lane assist, the 265WT doesn't. 265WT has Bluetooth capability, the 1350T doesn't. The 1350 is the newer style of Garmin GPS; the 265 is the older style which is a little thicker (0.4cm or 0.2" thicker) and slightly heavier (11g or 0.4oz) than the newer 1xxx series of Garmin GPSs.

As someone who has done BB for years, but not going there this year, getting there 2 hours before the doors open will assure you that you'll spend most of the day at BB as you'll be around the 300th person in line, if not worse. To be in the first 10 in line, you'll have to be there by noon Thursday at the latest. By 6PM on Thursday, without fail, the line is well over 50 if not worse.

Completely agree....and more incomprehensible is the fact that most of the TomTom units don't even have a slot for using a memory card, which would have alleviated some of the problems I've read about. I, too, am looking for a new GPS to replace an aging Garmin....its power plug is getting very loose, unfortunately....and while the TomTom at Target is intriguing, I honestly think it's more worth the few extra $$ to buy a comparable Garmin.

A lot of the bad feedback seems to come from the new TomTom's having an absurdly small amount of free memory in the unit which causes it to lock up and render it nonfunctional when updating the maps if you don't prep the unit beforehand.....like unloading all the extra voices, etc. (There's not enough free memory in the unit as it is shipped to allow updating the maps.....so it essentially overloads the unit, locking it up, never to work again unless you ship it back to TomTom.) Seems to me TomTom didn't put enough thought into their new units before releasing them to the market.