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Stopped at my local CrapUSA today and not much left. No Macs except a dual core Mac Pro for $1700. I'll wait till it goes down to 50% off. If I can get it for $1200, then I might consider it.
I did get some copies of .Mac, six to be exact, for $40 each. Big outlay for $240 but since I just renewed last month, I won't have to buy again for seven years. It's not worth it for $99 a year, but it IS for $40. This is my second year with a membership and the last two I got on eBay for $35 each.
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> No Macs except a dual core Mac Pro for $1700.
It's still $2300 at my CompUSA. The Mac Book Pro on display ("last one!") is also $2300. People have played with both extensively. They are scratched and dinged and the case of the Mac Book Pro is bent where somebody tried to pry it out of the clamp that holds it to the shelf. Yeah, 50% off is about the right price, assuming that AppleCare starts from the date of purchase. Except that the liquidators refuse to drop the price on Apple hardware.
OTOH: The current 40% off of .mac is tempting as a gift.
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I snagged some deals to CUSA today too...just by luck too. Previously it seemed they took mark downs on Thursdays but I was going to an appointment and saw the sign holders waving their 50-70% signs. I took a quick look after the appt. Mostly junk left. Lots of oddball video games not worth $2, overprice a/v cables that would be over priced at 80%, etc. I bought a Blu-Ray movie for $10 just to try out at home (too lazy to rent one).
Then a drove back the long way...past another CUSA. I really killed my CC there. They had a new, unopened Sony Blu-Ray recorder for $350 in one case, and a new Tivoli iSongBook for $120 in another. Took both of them. Also got a blank Blu-Ray RW and regular disk for $10 each.
I'm going to eBay the Blu-Ray drive unless Apple somehow out of the blue decides to update DVDSP 4 by the end of the month (fat chance). I'll probably give the Tivoli to my Mom for mother's day. She bought her first iPod last month.
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I did find a decent deal at CompUSA today. They had the Kensington 70w travel power adapters that OWC is selling for $40 dollars at 60% off of $80 dollars ($32 dollars after discount).
WTF was it doing at $80 bucks to begin with? I think that one must reasonably conclude that they intended not to sell to any.
