Dec 232009
Sales On Laptops
Posted by: LaptopsArena in Other
Christmas is a time for gifting. Aside from all the religious and spiritual feelings, this holiday is tons of fun when you think about all the gifts you can receive from your loved ones. Personally, I love giving gifts more than receiving them because I like to see my dear ones happy. And since I am writing this article for a laptop website, it’s fair to talk about laptops as a good gift for Christmas. I have browsed the internet to see if I could find sales on laptops since the holiday also bring some nice promotions and discounts for different electronics.
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First of all, you should know that there are website which offer discounts to certain groups of people all year long. For example, www.usanotebook.com offers 5%discount for the education and the military system and also for the senior citizens. They also have resellers discount and corporate discount. Corporate discounts are actually quite popular because big companies buy a large number of units and it is in the manufacturers and retailers best interest to lower the price if many units are sold to same company. It seems that all the laptops on this website are refurbished but they do offer some excellent prices even for these so called “second hand computersâ€. On the left side of this web page there is column “Shop by Brandâ€. You will see that the list of brands is quite small as it only includes Acer, Dell, eMachines, Gateway, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Toshiba laptops. The prices are awesome and the most expensive laptop I saw a red Dell Inspiron 1525 available at a price of $650. Unfortunately, this model is all sold out so the next expensive laptop would be a red Gateway M7356U for $550.

Now, if you want a good website that offers tons of models to choose from and that can also give you a list of all the shops where that specific model is, try http://shopper.cnet.com. Shopping for laptops is now very easy since you have filter that allow you to refine and choices and narrow them down to the units you are particularly interested in. you can shop by price, by manufacturer, by the notebook type (budget or gaming laptop are some examples) and if you still a list too big for you to check out, you can choose the product line, screen size, weight, processor, RAM size, operating system, hard drive size, graphics card series and environmental standards.

For example, we have chosen Acer as the manufacturer. The website generated a list with 174 results for Acer laptops. For each of this laptop we get a picture, the model’s full name, the CNET Editor rating, the user rating, the quick specs and some brief information about the products and we get a list of websites that sell this product plus the price tags for each of these stores. The second name on our list was the Acer Aspire One D250 with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of RAM, 160 of available disk space and preinstalled Windows XP Home Edition operating system. We are shown that this laptop is available on the B&H Photo Video website and on Amazon.com. The first website sells this unit at a price of $289 and the second has a price tag of $315.

After you choose the manufacturer, you are still left with all the other options in case you want an Acer with a specific price or from a certain product line. I selected the $600 - $700 price interval. If I choose to filter my options further, I can choose the product line and the screen size. Let’s say I want a desktop replacement and I chick 16 – 17 inches. I know have 8 laptop results that are priced between 600 and 700 dollars and that have a screen size of approximately 16 or 17 inches. This is how you can also buy the perfect laptop to gift. You first have to establish the budget and try to find out what that person would use a laptop for. The possibilities are numerous.

www.laptopcloseout.com has some very attractive sales on laptops as well. If you access the website now, the first 3 things that are going to attract your looks are the $329, $339 and $429 price tags for 3 laptop models that are on sale. The $329 laptop which is on sale is a Lenovo ThinkPad T42 with a 15 inch display. It has a 1.73 GHz Intel Pentium M Centrino processor combined with 1 GB of RAM. The size of the hard disk is 40 GB. Other features are the CD writer and DVD reader, the built in microphone and the stereo speakers. As you can see, this laptop is pretty basic. The components plus the fact that it is refurbished are the 2 factors that contribute to the low price of this unit.

Even if it is refurbished, you still get the Windows XP Professional operating system preinstalled plus a 3 months warranty period. This is why I keep telling you that refurbished laptops are not equal to damaged or junk. For an extra fee of $39, you can extend the warranty period from 90 days to a full year. In my opinion, you should always take advantage of these warranty extension packaged because you never know when your laptop might crush down on you. You can still add some extra features, just as you can in the case of a brand new laptop. Here, for instance, you can pay $29 and get a port replicator and for $19 you get a standard nylon case. Options are everywhere.
So, if you want to gift a laptop this Christmas or just one for yourself but your budget is limited, there are laptop promotions available this holiday so hurry up before retailers empty their stocks. And if you want a certain laptop which you believe is too expensive, do not be afraid to go refurbished. The warranty period will guarantee that you did not make a bad choice.
















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