Black Friday 2012

Tek7@Work

Tek7@Work

CGA President, Tribe of Judah Founder & President
For those of you participating in Black Friday this year (the "be ready to buy some stuff online at 12:01 a.m. on Friday then go to bed at 12:30 a.m." event, not the "rampaging hordes of consumer zombies trampling each other to save a few bucks off a cheap laptop" event), please feel free to share the best deals you find in advance of Black Friday.

Also feel free to share what you'll be shopping for; I'll go first:

  • 23"+ monitor/HDTV for gaming PC
  • 2+ TB SATA hard drive
  • Blu-ray burner
  • Computer case?
  • Mainboard?
  • Processor?
  • RAM?
I'm hoping to find some time to review ads today. I'll post if I find anything particularly noteworthy, but it seems Black Friday sales are less and less impressive each year.

EDIT: I'm also looking to find a good price on a fast and dependable 32+ GB SDHC card with a lifetime warranty for my and my wife's digital camcorder.
 
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honestly.... staples has one of the better deals and its the same one as last year :(

I'm gonna get the 32" samsung at walmart but otherwise, unless newegg puts out a really good ad.... i'm a bit disappointed in bf this year :(
 
I'm shopping for:

2x Polk Audio monitor 50's or 60's. (Probably the 60's that go on sale at 1pm PST today @ newegg)
Polk Audio center channel CS2
Subwoofer to match up

Mechanical keyboard with cherry MX blacks

Gabe Newell and his "empty my wallet" game sales.

Skylander starter set (for the kids I swear!)
 
So here's a crazy thought: How about I pick up the PlayStation 3D Display for a PC monitor?

EDIT: Nevermind. It's sold out.
 
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Joshinator said:
It's back in.
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And now it's back out again. :(

Any way to sign up for a stock alert on the Best Buy site? I didn't see one, but I may have just missed it.

EDIT: Can you send me a text or e-mail if you see it back in stock again? I'll PM you my Google Voice number.
 
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Okay, I'm looking for recommendations for an awesome 22"-24" monitor for gaming. Low latency and image quality are my main concerns. I'd like to find a monitor with 1 DVI port and at least 1 HDMI port.
 
ewoksrule said:
I'm shopping for:

2x Polk Audio monitor 50's or 60's. (Probably the 60's that go on sale at 1pm PST today @ newegg)
Polk Audio center channel CS2
Subwoofer to match up

Mechanical keyboard with cherry MX blacks

Gabe Newell and his "empty my wallet" game sales.

Skylander starter set (for the kids I swear!)
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I have no idea what any of this is, but now I must have it all.
 
Anyone find any great deals?

I've only picked up a $40 (after rebate) Blu-ray burner, a Logitech C310 webcam for $15 for Skype with the family and voice chat in games and TeamSpeak (I sometimes play games 10 feet away from my desktop PC in the living room), a $40 LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Bundle (which includes LBP2: Special Edition, a Move controller, a Move navigation controller, and a PlayStation Eye), a Sandisk 32GB Class 10 SDHC card for $18.

...Of course, when I list everything together, it sounds like a lot, but it feels like I've been penny-pinching compared with last year's Black Friday. :p

I've missed out on multiple $90 3TB SATA hard drive deals, but after reading reviews on some of the drives, I'm thinking that may not be such a bad thing.
 
My haul, keep in mind I only went for movies and PS3 games.

(I also bought Dawnguard and Hearthfire during the Steam Sale)

Blu-rays
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Captain America
Fight Club
The Hunger Games
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Prometheus
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes 2
Taken
X-Men First Class
Thor

PS3 Games
Dishonored
God of War Saga (all 5 games)
Red Dead Redemption GOTY
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
 
I haven't bought anything yet. But I am researching a Kindle Paperwhite 3G vs. a Kindle Fire HD 4G for my mom. She expressed interest in an e-reader so I'm trying to figure out which is best suited for her. I did talk her out of the Barnes & Noble Nook at $59 though.

Thanks for the tip for blu-ray movies. I'll have to look into those.
 
I picked up:
samsung 32" LED tv
samsung point an shoot
black and decker 18v drill + 2 rechargeable batteries (wedding gift for someone else)
pyrex 24piece kit (different person getting married wedding gift)
2 ps3 controllers (now can have 4 player action!)
 
My Black Friday purchases have been almost entirely Steam/Amazon Digital. Picked up a fair number of games (or DLC) at great prices. I'm even more overstocked on backlog now than before. The problem with there being so many games I wanna play and not enough time to play them. D'oh!

Biggest non-game splurge was $50 on a year's sub to Crunchyroll All-Access. Was wanting to buy in at $100 previously. Getting it for $50 was something I didn't wanna pass up. :D

Also scooped up 8GB of RAM for $20.
 
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Wow that crunchyroll is tempting, I am loving the Roku and that would be a perfect addition. Just don't know if I have enough solo viewing time to be worth it.
 
Kendrik said:
Biggest non-game splurge was $50 on a year's sub to Crunchyroll All-Access. Was wanting to buy in at $100 previously. Getting it for $50 was something I didn't wanna pass up. :D
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That is indeed tempting. Trouble is, the wi-fi at work doesn't have enough bandwidth to stream 720p video. :( Still, might be worth plunking down the money for when I'm home. How does the streaming video look compared to downloaded .MKV files?

Kendrik said:
Also scooped up 8GB of RAM for $20.
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Whaa? Where?
 
My wife is just about done Christmas shopping...

I picked up a spotting scope for my son for $42.
 
Tek7 said:
That is indeed tempting. Trouble is, the wi-fi at work doesn't have enough bandwidth to stream 720p video. :( Still, might be worth plunking down the money for when I'm home. How does the streaming video look compared to downloaded .MKV files?
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Sadly, I'm not the best guy to ask on this; I don't usually land in videophile turf. I haven't ever done a direct parallel between the two, but I've been very much satisfied with my experience in the past; in fact, I just streamed some 1080p stuff and went "yup... good stuff." :)

Whaa? Where?
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TigerDirect. Got lucky with a $10 coupon code (that I no longer see on the page) added to the already good price of $30. Granted, that's DDR3 1333... and 2x4GB chips. Buuuuut... that's what my mobo hungers for, so I am content with doubling my RAM. :D
 
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