Recent content by alphabetter

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    OT: Has anyone gotten their mouse yet?

    A friend of mine had a very bad experience with buy.com, but it ended up great. He ordered a brand new palm at almost a 100$ discount (buy was having a sale). They shipped it to him and it had a bunch of dead pixels, he returned it, it sat around in their werehouse for the better part of a...
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    Aluminum pull out trays for $5.99

    Be carefull with cheap trays like these. I had about 8 similar devices go bad. The fans in them were *horrible* quality -- after a few months they begin to warble and make your entire system unstable as they draw lots of current (or are fans voltage driven? I dont recall)
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    Biostar M7VIG MB & AMD Sempron 2200+ CPU $99.99

    I posted this in another thread as well but it seems appropriate here as well: I have been very unhappy with the service at compgeeks, and know quite a few people who feel the same way. I'd be weary of buying *ANYTHING* from them. I bought a defective wireless card from them a month ago...
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    LED Pinch rechargeable flashlight $5.85 at Geeks

    I have been very unhappy with the service at compgeeks, and know quite a few peolpe who feel the same way. I'd be weary of buying *ANYTHING* from them. I bought a defective wireless card from them a month ago and they've made it very difficult to return it. Their customer service is as...
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    Microsoft Biometric Fingerprint Passwords

    They are probably closing these out because IO Software who MS was partners with for bio authentication is about to tank -- largely due to MS's disinterest in the subject. If you want a *REALLY* good unit pickup a sony "FIU". They have built in fingerprint recognition and can store up to...
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    Iriver H320 on clearance at Best Buy

    Anyone seen these in the inland empire area of california? Every BB Ive been to the price has been 269$