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Never been impressed with a Dyson vacuum. Bought one a year ago on a whim. Was worse cleaning our carpet than the Hoover Wind Tunnel self-propelled vac. that was we had.....so returned the Dyson. Personally, it was loud, the on/off switch was in the stupidest place, and I hate no bags. Those bagless vacs....the dirt cup invariably becomes such a mess because of static elec. created by the plastic...the dirt sticks to the cup. And there's just no way to empty the cup without a small mushroom cloud of dust coming up. Give me a bag vac any day......much cleaner in the end with emptying it.

It's NOT an HDTV adapter that will be needed....it's a digital tuner that you'll need. And supposedly the gov't will be giving around $60 vouchers to help offset the cost of the digital tuner. HDTV is NOT related to the digital broadcast standard that's coming into being in a year or so. Completely different as most broadcast stations are already broadcasting a HD signal along with their standard definition signal.

This is the 3rd or 4th year BB will be handing out the tickets at 3AM.

Yeah....by a whole $2-$3. After you get your $10-$20 rebate back. After you pay $5 shipping. The same PNY 2 GB SO-DIMM set at Newegg, PC5300....DDR2 667 SO-DIMM, is $67.99 + $4.99 shipping - $20 MIR = 52.98.....a whole $2.01 savings. Of course, PNY gets your $20 for however long they choose to keep it. Even including sales tax, which in our area is 7%, that just adds 3.85 to the total. I'll just buy it all in one place and forget the rebate, thank you very much. And that PNY is about the cheapest 2 GB set Newegg has in DDR2 667 (PC5300)....the Mushkin is only a dollar cheaper. So much for Newegg being WAY cheaper than B&M stores.....esp. given the rebate hassle. Sire, $5 is $5, but ony after you manage to get your rebate honored.

And who pays for all this extra security for up to 12-18 hours before the store opens? Honestly, Best Buy couldn't care less about how the people in the line manage themselves prior to the employees showing up at 2AM.

Ummmmm.....no, no plasma for $419. They have an Olevia 32" LCD for $419.

Geez.....in all the years we've camped outside BB and CC, we've never had problems establishing "friendships" with those around us in line.....which allowed everyone to leave for bathroom breaks, food breaks, or whatever, without worrying about losing one's place in line at all. In fact, last year I left the line to hit the CUSA's midnight opening and then returned.....right to the same exact spot I left....and to no dissent or complaints. When I got back, it instead was "What did you get?" and "Was it crowded?" Guess we in the South just live a more civil life and treat each other with more respect than other parts of the country that treat this as a cutthroat, me first competition. Our lines tend to be more the block party type of happening.....not what everyone else is describing. Glad we're down here.........

Thank you, Brad!

I know.....asking a lot. Just wish either or both would "show" its face before Wed, the 21st. That's final decision day as I'll probably on the road in the morning Thursday, esp. if Atlanta is in the cards..... With Best Buy and Circuit City not exactly lighting any fires (although 1/2 price on any floorstanding Klipsch speakers at Best Buy keeps me looking at them), I'm putting my hopes on Fry's and MicroCenter. :)

Or you could get very lucky and find the laptop has one slot occupied with a single 1GB stick of RAM, like the doorbuster Toshiba laptop BB had two years ago. That was a nice "extra" and made upgrading the RAM quite easy. But, it'll probably have both slots occupied, as you said, with two 512MB strips, sad to say. Of course, with the price of memory like it is right now, it may be indeed cheaper for the mfgr. to resort to single 1GB strips of memory instead of two strips. Time will tell...... :)

But, I suppose BB thinks the quite nice Garmin c550's price is special or something. Unfortunately for them, it's quite easily found for that price or cheaper right now.....ewiz has it for $328, Abe's has it for $314, and CompUPlus has it for $305....shipping extra on all of them.

From what I gather, the Garmin c550 is probably the best for the price....SirfStar III equipped, text-to-voice, NAVTEQ-powered mapping system, includes a carrying case....and good price. As a contrast, the TomTom ONE uses the Tele Atlas mapping system.....the Tele Atlas system is supposedly much slower to react, picks worse routes, and is just plain inferior. The TomTom ONE had a few other problems, which the GPS Magazine reviewer said were too bad, because he'd have made it his best in class GPS unit....except for the quotes below. As a reviewer looking at the TomTom ONE said:

Honestly, these days is a very rare laptop that DOESN'T come with built-in wireless. I really cannot think of a single laptop that I've seen without wireless built-in in the last couple of years. Even that $250 Toshiba Best Buy had last year had wireless built-in. If that one had it at that price, you can be pretty assured that all the laptops listed this year include it.

Well, the CC in Augusta is a free-for-all. While they do hand out tickets for the doorbuster and limited quantity items, the staff really seems like it couldn't care less about helping anyone....and most are clueless about where to go to pick up any ticketed item. I wasted 3 hours four years ago in the Augusta CC going here and there, looking for the doorbuster laptop. Every salesperson I asked, along with the other ticket holders asking, got a different answer and sent to a different part of the store. Best Buy, on the other hand, is supremely organized. Doors open promptly at 5AM and only allow 50 people in at a time.....and then the next 50 get in after 15 min. and so on. Cuts down on the shoving, pushing, free-for-all. The staff either knows the answer to any question posed to them or will take you and find out right then. The checkouts are more civil....CC's are still terribly designed---still just registers sitting out in the open essentially, so the lines form all over the place. And then the rebates. I suppose if you don't really mind CC or whoever has your money for 2-3 months, hit CC up......on the other hand, BB quit rebating several years ago and that has made the store much more attractive to a lot of people.

Hate to inform you, but Best Buy quit using commission sales YEARS ago. That's just poor misinformation you're putting out at best, complete bias towards BB at worst. Speak the truth....not your hatred of BB.

And that laptop from BB last year for the $250 is remarkably similar to the one being bandied about at the $100 price.....which is, at least to me, a ridiculous price. I could see maybe $200, but $100 is probably below mfg. cost, much less BB's wholesale price. As has been said.....this is a rumor that seems to have begun on FatWallet or SlickDeals...no corroboration has ever been shown about this. I'll believe it as soon as I see it in print in a BB advert.

Too bad about the C&D order from OM.....but we're not missing anything by not having the ad up any longer, anyway. One of the worst BF ads and product selections I've had the misfortune to see in a long time. But I downloaded it already anyway.

Sent an email to express my disappointment with Target's hypocritical behavior with you and other affiliate sites.

You're right......one has recently disappeared. Odd....thought the store'd sent it to you. C'est la vie.....I've got it saved anyway. :)

A store's add-on extended warranty, I guess, can be alright. But a basic 90 day warranty on an electronic item from the mfgr. really speaks to me about how much the mfgr., really thinks it'll last and how low quality the thing must be....the "mfgr." really thinks it'll last with that long a warranty. Typical TV warranties from the manufacturer tend to be one year at least....and some are as long as three years. When I see a 90 day warranty is all that's being provided from the manufacturer, I have to ask myself why so short? And the inevitable answer always comes back to the fact that's the thing is cheap beyond compare......and may even outlive its 90 day warranty before blowing up.

3-4 hours from now? LOL! I wish I could sleep that late..... Wait until you get older......then you'll wish you could remember sleeping in until 10AM. And we do hope you stay busy today and the next few days.....posting the likes of BB, CC, Staples, CUSA............ :)

Click on the link in the very first post in this thread.....all will be revealed.

I'd like to hear from others about this brand, too. Myself, the price for the Westy 22" widescreen monitor gives me hopes BB will have something at least as nicely priced.....and possibly larger. The 10" port. DVD player is a very nice price, though. Make a good present for a kid or traveler.

I'm not familiar wit TruTech either, but one spec that really bothers me is their pathetic 90 day warranty they have on this TV and most of their other electronics. THAT one thing would make me shy away from purchasing this house brand of Target's.

It means that it has a VGA input to use as a computer monitor if you want to. It's a TV w/built-in DVD player and can be used as a monitor, too. Not all LCD TVs have this, but a fair number do have a VGA input, like last year's Best Buy 32" Westy LCD TV. And, on the other hand, some computer monitors have a host of AV inputs so you can use them, alternatively, as a TV. The Westy 22" widescreen LCD monitor from BB last year had a lot of AV inputs for TV use...but it was a computer monitor first.