wittenlover

Wow. Glad to know you're okay now, Pnambic. A hearty "welcome back, glad you're still here" from this MI chick. I always appreciate your explanations and input on the forum.

I've started the hunt but haven't made any purchases just yet. List is coming together.

Agreed. And that TCL at WM has my attention as well.

Quality definitely matters more than price to this girl, but you're right jaymacfla. I'm definitely in the minority.

Thanks for the assist riven3d And yes, I agree with riven3d's assessment. 4GB of RAM is almost not enough these days even for what you want to do, starbeck96. I'm shackled with 4GB of RAM right now and don't do much more than what you want to do and it's just bogging down my laptop badly. So... I'm looking to get one with at least 8GB of RAM in it, hopefully this BF.

Are you referring to the one on the last page of the ad?

I'm toying with that Sharp in BB's ad but a 55" in the space I have for it is very literally the largest that I can physically fit there, so I'm not sure I want to go that big. Was hoping for better 50" deals. But... Between the three you mention, you're better off with either BB or Walmart's deal. The $199 is cheap but that's about it. You'll get better quality out of either of the other two.

Holy cow! $400 gc on the iPhone 8 & $300 on the new ones??? Ummm... Yes please? Anyone done phone activation at WM before that can tell me how insane it is?

Interesting... Thinking I may have to go scout mine before Saturday and find out what process they'll use. Yours definitely sounds like they use a very orderly process, tyreejames. I'm not currently a Sam's Club member but that $300 gift card would be well worth it since I'm due for an upgrade anyway, assuming no BF ads drop with similar deals before then.

Yep. Chance and Lucky and their friends. I've already donated a few this season. Lost count of how many I donated last year. Great cause, easy $5 add on.

I still buy and use CDs for music. Have to have some way to burn them to computer for iTunes transfer. That's my biggest use.

Agreed. No optical drive kills me, though. I really don't want to have to get another add-on piece and I use my optical drive quite a bit still. Still, I'll keep it under consideration because I know USB plug-in optical drives are relatively inexpensive.

And pretty inexpensive for their quality. (Yep, will be adding at least a couple more to my collection this year!)

It seems the PetSmart ad is only a preview and not the full ad. Fingers crossed that this is true, as I was very disappointed by what I saw in the PetSmart one as it is now.

Both Petco and PetSmart have a variety of things for our long-eared furry friends.

Ditto for me, but with my mom... This will be my 13th Christmas without her and it's still rough sometimes.

I would imagine it will be similar, if not identical. Will be interesting to find out, though, for sure.

Exactly. I think they got burned that year, so now they specifically say 35-lb pails. Bummer.

Yeah. That's a bum deal on Tidy Cats. Weak ad from PetSmart this year. Unfortunate.

Boo. Guess I'll be waiting on Meijer ad then.

rtings.com is truly your friend for this kind of thing. They give detailed reviews but also rate TVs on a 1-10 scale in various categories. Gaming is one of those categories.

A new bike. I don't ask mainly because I don't have much space to store it (apartment dweller) but also because the bikes I'm looking at are not cheap.

Haven't seen anything in my email yet. I'm curious, too.

Access to full Google Play store (I am not comfortable jailbreaking devices). And some apps I use are Google Play/iOS App store exclusive.

I'm potentially interested in a mini, but am considering grabbing one model or another this year, as the Kindle Fire I bought last year is nice, but doesn't have access to some of the apps and things I was hoping to use it for. (My fault - should have done more research!)