I have been shopping at the Micro Center since 1983. I used to buy
stuff at the since closed original store at the Lane Avenue Shopping
Center in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Man that takes me back. I bought my
first 1200 BPS modem for $100 when they were going for $400-$500
normally. The Westerville store had a pile of them by the door and it
was some off brand you've never heard of, but it did Bell-212 and it
worked until I upgraded to 2400 BPS a few years later.
So, yeah, the Micro Center has been doing stuff like this for decades,
but as you point out, the value is not necessarily hugely better than a
normal discount deal.
As I said in a previous message, the reason I'm not pursuing this deal
is that people tend to give me their old laptops, and I tend to use them
until the cases fall off. Besides, I just bought a refurbed mini
desktop as a shack computer.
On 7/24/2022 4:55 PM, Mark Brantana via BVARC wrote:
You can reserve this with a credit card online. Micro Center often has these
sort of specials. Typically they have minimal ROM and RAM. In this case they
have 4/64Gig. I like it for a possible travel laptop.They tout this as a Wifi
version, which it is. You could save to Google, Drop-box, etc, and 64 Gig is
enough to hold stuff until you do have Wifi. I prefer Apple, but I would cry a
lot if I broke my Mac. Keep in mind that, if you brought it up to about 8/500
Gig in memory, typical memory, it would cost about what a typical computer
would cost. This IS a Wifi version. I have one on hold for me.
Thanks for the email notice,
Mark
N5PRD
On Jul 24, 2022, at 15:58, Richard Yoo via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
Here is the link to order online for in-store pickup:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/649971/evolve-iii-maestro-e-book-116-laptop-computer-dark-grey
Limit 5 per order.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 3:43 PM Mike Lambert via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
There are 31 of these on the floor as of 3:30 on Sunday.
Have a good day,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Richard Yoo via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org>
Date: July 22, 2022 at 8:04:37 PM CDT
To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org>, Houston ECHO Society
<e...@lists.w5eco.org>
Cc: Richard Yoo <richard...@gmail.com>
Subject: [BVARC] $60 Laptop at Microcenter
Reply-To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org>
Josh Nass's KI6NAZ video about it:
https://youtu.be/7TM0VSra-b8
I just got home from the Houston MicroCenter and I can confirm that
they have a pallet of these laptops for $60 there as of Friday 7p
7/22/2022
For that price its a really good value for ham related work.
Richard,
-N5YOO
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