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[JimH443]

I came to this article wondering what price a bargain color laser printer was going for. I finished the article wondering the same thing. I did find out what the author considers to be a bargain inkjet printer though.

[oldschoolh4ck3r]

Yeah I wondered the same thing. Plus, $999 for an HDTV a bargain?? I can get a 32" one from the same mfgr. for $400. The other bargains are OK but it depends who you ask - in this economy you can't afford to spend any more than you have to.

[iwanderafar]

The Pentax A40 not a very good camera. It has an abismal wide angle. Anyone who buys a camera should look for decent wide angle. It's more important than the zoom. Try taking a picture of a group of friends without it. ...Or a picture of a mountain or a beautiful building.

[burnitt]

The best cameras are Canon's. I've had four, ending up with the G9. Great pictures, never a problem.

[WinTard]

I picked up this color laser printer for $250 at Costco last year, and also for twelve of my close friends... The greatest printer I ever used at any price.

* Print speed: up to 21 ppm in color or monochrome
* Print resolution: up to 2400 x 600 dpi
* Paper capacity:
* Input: 300 sheets
* Output: 150 sheets
* Automatic duplex printing: up to 7 sides per minute in duplex mode in color or monochrome
* Print method: Electrographic laser
* PCL: 66 scalable fonts, 12 bitmap and 13 bar codes
* BR-Script3: 66 scalable fonts
* 3-color LCD display
* Standard memory: 64 MB, upgradeable to 576 MB via 144-pin SO-DIMM
* Processor: NEC VR5500 300MHz
* Interfaces: 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet, USB 2.0, USB Direct Interface, 802.11b/g Wireless, IEEE1284 Parallel
* Energy Star compliant
* Dimensions:
* 16.5" W x 18.7" D x 12.5" H
* Weight: 64.2 lbs.

Just wait for the sales people!

>www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11232186&search=color%20laser&Mo=4&cm[ure=1[/u]en--TopLeftNav--Topsearch&lang=en-US&Nr=PCatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043%204294967249&whse=BC&Dx=modematchallpartial&Ntk=TextSearch&Dr=PCatalogName:BC&Ne=50000014000000&D=color%20laser&Ntt=color%20laser&No=4&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1]

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The full specs here: [http://www.costco.com/images/content/misc/PDF/220231.pdf]

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[WinTard]

For an entry level ultimate computer please see: forums.pcworld.com/message/194358#194358|m-194358

Here's an except:
So Apple $2500
Custom built with love and passion: $1340 + my free time worth at least $200 = $1540 or roughly $1000 difference for my system.

|Apple $2500|$1540 less $200 voluntary workmanship discount credit to be applied towards OS when available|
|Same class of i7 Quad Core 2.66GHz Nehalem CPU|Same class of i7 Quad Core 2.66GHz Nehalem CPU|
|3GB RAM|12GB RAM (Wow! 4 times the RAM)|
|640GB HDD|1000GB HDD|
|Apple Super-Drive|CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Pioneer Burner|
|nVidia GeForce GT 120 with 512MB|nVidia 9800GTX 512MB DDR3|
|Apple Mac OS X the latest|Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 beta (free until August)|

[direwolve]

This seems to happen in all the PCW bargain bulletins. I am convinced that they shop in all the wrong places.

[Tgard]

Where do they get their prices from. Needed a budget replacement camera for a budget price and tried to find that Pentax Optio A40. $226 is the cheapest price I have found it for so far and that's far away from the $120 price they gave in the article and from what I could find. Anyone know where it is for that price? Any info would be appreciated.