Archive for the ‘Buying Choices’ Category
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
After my ordeal with the TomTom XL 330, I wanted to find a good upgrade to my Garmin c320. I wanted coordinates and Where Am I? features in particular.
I hope Garmin reads this, I could help them sell millions more.
PROS:
1. Best routes. (See my cons) This may be one of ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I have a Garmin c320 GPS unit and wanted to upgrade to a model with more features - particularly coordinates and "Where Am I" features. After reading the reviews, I really liked the features in the TomTom XL 330. The only hesitation I had was with the speaker volume. The ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
For those of you that refuse to pay $45/month for internet, here is another option. Comcast has an economy plan in some areas in which you pay $24.95 per month and get 768Kbps download speeds. They do not advertise this, but have it as an option to compete ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Well, I got burned on eBay. I looked so carefully through listings that I believed were bogus and I settled on a seller (in the USA) with high feedback. I received the box today -- a sealed Retail Box of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. I was a ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
NO!!
Boy, this is such an opportunity for deception (see this article, 3/4 of the way down), and I don't like deception. The myth is out there -- you need a new HDTV before February 2009. The cable companies and TV stores, I'm sure, aren't going to try too hard to ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
For some reason widescreen monitors are all the rage, so that's primarily what the stores are selling now and almost all laptops now have widescreens. I suppose that the HDTV-look influences it and just because it looks cool and new, etc. However, I think that the sizes that ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Please, consumers, do not take your purchasing advice from Best Buy sales people... It has been the myth that you must buy a new digital TV before January 2009 (I'll blog about that another day). Now sales people are pushing Wireless-N routers. I was looking in a ...
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