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reply to Wolfie00

Re: 12 Dells: Days of (supposed) Deals - Dec 3 2012

reply to Devanchya
Just as a BTW, I see that Dell is up to their usual tricks in unreliably quoting list prices -- that same Panasonic plasma is available on sale at BB right now for only $50 more, regular list price $799.98.
»www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/pan···e0e1en02

reply to Gone
And I find my Epson projector is superior to either an LCD or a PDP

Today, there are some decent sales. The Toshiba blu-ray player for $50 is a good deal (even Dynex normally goes for more than that), so we'll pick up a few for the con. The U2711 for $670 is a decent discount, although not nearly as steep a discount as Dell indicates. They give the normal price as $999, but in fact the normal price is nowhere near that high. B&H has it for $850 CAD, for example.
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reply to Guspaz
Yep

Because it's typically wasdx, arrow keys and/or mouse.

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reply to Guspaz
The Toshiba BR player is a great price, but in case you missed my earlier post, Google for some reviews via the model number. It may still meet your limited needs but most users weren't very happy with it, to say the least!

Does anyone have any comments on this that I'm just about to buy (not from Dell, but just asking OT):
»www.canadacomputers.com/product_···d=049468

I normally prefer Pioneer optical drives but both their current BR burner models seem to have various issues.

reply to Devanchya
I used my Eneloop batteries last night. Worked well.

Dell - UltraSharp U2410 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor $389 today.

CyberPower Systems (USA)
CP1350AVRLCD Intelligent LCD 1350VA 810W with AVR Tower UPS $120

Not the APC that we used to love and buy in bulk Not bad though. Lowest I can find quickly is $135.
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reply to Wolfie00
Well, the Dell U2713HM I ordered last week for work arrived... Not a bad little screen, even if it is supposed to be the weaker of the two 27" offerings from Dell...

Calibrated very well out of the box, i slapped on my xrite calibrator and the adjustment it made was very minimal, could barely see it.

I still can't stand 16:9 screens... Good lord, this thing just looks pathetically inferior next to a 30" 2560x1600 screen, even though the resolution is very close at 2560x1440, the movie aspect ratio just sucks...
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I am not fond of 16:9 either, too short!

reply to donoreo
yeah the APC at costco is the way to go but that price at $120 is decent.

reply to donoreo
That UPS is a simulated (stepped) sine wave output on battery which reportedly doesn't work with the active PFC power supplies that Dell used to use and AFAIK still does. All UPS's will be stepped sine wave at that price point -- that was the beauty of our favourite APC SmartUPS, it had all the bells and whistles and pure sine wave output.

Nothing of interest to me today, though that's a good price on a very nice basic Inspiron 15R laptop.

reply to Devanchya
Most active PFC PSUs work fine with stepped sine wave approximations, although they may not be able to supply their full rated power. I believe Seasonic claims their PSUs will typically be able to provide 70-80% the rated load in such scenarios, for example.
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That's quite likely true, but there are definitely some that don't. Enermax which Dell uses (or at least used to) in XPS and maybe other models being a case in point. Basically when a stepped-sine UPS goes on battery, the computer shuts off!

I've had Enermax Active PFC PSUs that worked fine with stepped sine wave UPSes. I know from personal experience that some of Dell's stuff has had issues with these kind of UPSes, but I really never fully understood why seeing as how just about anything else out there with Active PFC never had such issues.

And the Dell situation was worse than just not working on battery - the computers wouldn't turn on, period. Didn't matter if it was running on battery or mains power. They just refused to power on at all.

reply to Devanchya
A few things of note today. Dell finally had a decent price on the most basic of the Inspiron 15's, listed at $339.99 and correctly noted as being $170 off the list price. Sadly, that only lasted an hour or two this morning and it's now back to an unremarkable $399.99. Too bad, that actually was a deal. I'd love to know the background of how that price got put up, and then retracted!

Cable package - 3x HDMI, 1x audio coax, 1x optical coax, $19.99.

And I am springing for the D-Link DAP-1525 AP/Bridge. Reviews are mixed but many seem to be incompetents with the wrong expectations of what it does. A friend of mine got one on a previous Dell sale and in bridge mode it perfectly fulfills his objective of streaming 1080p over wireless-N (YMMV). I've been looking for a deal on one ever since, and at $49.99 this is the best price around. Bridges are great, and my current ones are based on Tomato and the WRT54-GL, so they are only G-capable.

Anyone feeling richer than I do right now can also pick up a U3011 today for $999.
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Ordered the DAP-1525, thinking maybe I should have got two. Went through the user manual and it supports everything I might need -- wireless a/b/g/n, both 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands (but not simultaneously), and all the common wireless standards and functions.

Non-simultaneous 2.4 and 5GHz on a router or AP starts to suck real fast.

Well, not on a bridge, which is how I'm going to use it. Also kind of a moot point even for an AP if your network is all single-band, like mine is. And a lot of devices don't even have 5 Ghz at all.

reply to Devanchya
A non-simultaneous router might as well be single-band.

I run a mixed network. 2.4GHz for all my non-5 devices and older 802.11g devices (PS3, Wii, 360, 3DS, iPhone 4S), and a 5GHz for my newer devices (Macbook Air, iPad).
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