Yes I have been obsessed with the ASUS Eee PC. It has nothing to do with my 3 1/2 year old — it was me who wanted to play with the small ultra-portable notebook. In fact I have bought one in early February — almost $450 delivered from eBay for a slightly used Eee [...]

Thanks to 18Googol2 for posting this Dell deal, Dell Australia is having a 10% Off Selected Products Happy Hour Sale today at between 1PM and 2PM AEST. It says “selected products” so I am not really sure what exactly is covered. However from the banner image it shows everything from desktop computer to laptops to LCD [...]

Here is one great offer posted by Jeffreylin today at OzBargain — Dell 24″ LCD monitor $499 delivered. The specific model is Entry E248WFP, which is Dell’s entry level monitor using TN panel. The much-praised UltraSharp 2407WFP is also on sale for $799 with a free 2GB memory key. Deal on E248WFP expires tomorrow [...]

I have got a problem to solve here. I want a cheap low-end notebook — not something I need, but just something that is nice to have. I want it for my 3 1/2 year old daughter who spent around 1-1.5 hour a day in front of computers playing with sites such as Sesame Street [...]

Scott’s History of Computer Monitors 1995 Bought my very first computer when I moved out home. Paid $300 for a 14″ KTX CRT, and thought it was a pretty good price. 1998 Spent $950 on a 19″ CTX CRT that did 1600×1200 @ 75Hz, after shopped around for a long time. It was heavy, and the screen was not [...]

My wife’s 4.5 years old iBook G3 died two weeks ago. Well, probably not like the flaming iBook, but it will not boot from the hard disk, and booting from the installation CD only results kernel panic with memory-related error messages. Sounds like it is time for a new computer! That iBook was actually [...]

A typical bargain hunting execution loop: Lock into product. Go to as many price comparison site as possible. Find the vendor offering the cheapest price. Buy from that vendor. It is done in the way that “price” becomes the only determining factor, whereas the quality of service provided by the supplier/vendor is rarely added into the formulae. However, we usually [...]

I have found some incredible Dell Australia coupon code online today. First of all, I am an NRMA member — and I believe everyone who drive a 5+ year old car in NSW should be as well. And NRMA members do get quite a few benefits and discount when you “Show Your Card & [...]

David of Hartigan Computers is offering a special coupon for the readers of this blog! If they enter the coupon code “ozbargainblog” when they spend $100 or more, they’ll receive 5% off their total order. The coupon is good for 12 months. Thanks David for the offer! I have a quick look at the Brisbane-based online [...]

Just saw it on Dell’s latest newsletter — Dell Inspiron XPS M1210 now starts at $1,799. It was still $2,000+ last week if I remembered correctly, and now they are running a special on this ultra-portable Core 2 Duo notebook. You get – Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 (1.83Ghz) Memory 1024Mb DDR2 Hard drive 120Gb SATA Optical drive CD-RW/DVD Combo Monitor 12.1″ Widescreen XGA [...]

Thanks to Buckscoop for spotting this great deal! From the most recent Dell newsletter, they are running a special deal on Dimension E520 Intel Core 2 Duo desktop computers. They are advertising a “PowerPack”, where for $1,549 you will get: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.83Ghz) 512Mb DDR2 RAM 160Gb SATA Hard Disk 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor 16x DVD Writer Windows Vista [...]

Cheap Memory, as its name has suggested, is an Australian shop that sells cheap memory (surprise!), which includes RAM sticks in your computer, memory cards and solid state USB keys. They have a 10% off special this week — basically you get to say No to Johnny’s GST (in fact they do list ex-GST [...]

A few very interesting deals from Dell this week — A Pentium 4 with HT desktop and 19″ LCD for less than $900 and the sub-$500 PowerEdge SC430 budget server is back. Dimension 3100 for $898 Delivered Thanks to recent Intel discount on their out-going Pentium 4, Dimension 3100 with 19inch LCD has been discounted to [...]

Dan Warne of APC Magazine wrote that 300Gb is the sweet spot for hard disks, where it has lowest $/Gb at 47 cents. Are you looking to upgrade your desktop PC’s hard drive? Of course you are! There’s no such thing as too much disk space on a desktop PC. The current sweet spot is 300GB for [...]

Some interesting Dell deals received today. Inspiron 6400UMA 1600GT First of all the Dell’s entry level dual core notebook, Inspiron 6400UMA 1600GT is on sale again. Last time it was $1,399, and now you can bring Intel Core Duo powered notebook home for $1,349. Moreover, the optical drive has been upgraded to DVD writer. Intel Core Duo [...]

Aldi Australia has their late June sale catelogue out. Plenty of interesting bargains. One that I am particularly interested in is this Tevion analogue/digital HD TV tuner card for $79, which has reduced from $99. It is actually 2 tuners in one. It lets you watch TV on your computer, and can receive either analogue [...]

From Thu 8/12 until Thu 20/12, Myers is having electrical gifts on sale. Purchase any Apple iBook G4 notebook and receive a Bonus 512MB memory key & notebook bag. Another offer is purchase any Apple iMac G5 and receive a bonus MS Office Mac 2004 Student & Teacher Edition.

Dell Australia is promoting their budget notebook computer — the AUD$898.70 Dell Inspiron 2200, and that includes free delivery and an hard disk upgrade. There has been quite a few notebook computers selling for under $1,000 these days, which was unthinkable even 3 years ago. The Dell package has to be one of the better [...]

So, where to find the best bargain on the latest foo, bar and baz that you always dream to have? Want to save that extra $2 getting that new motherboard? Sick of spending whole night checking out each individual e-commerce site and compare their prices? I have discovered price comparison websites a few years ago, [...]

Saw this on the front page of Target Catalogue this week: Mercury PC $699, includes keyboard, speakers and Lexmark Z513 printer. Celeron 2.xxGhz* 256Mb RAM 40Gb Hard Disk 56k Modem 17″ CRT monitor Combo drive (burn CD watch DVD) Windows XP Home Edition 64Mb integrated graphics * Can’t read the exact spec on the heavily distorted JPEG file. Everything housed inside a dodgy-looking black case. Not [...]