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Circuit City will try to best Wal-Mart Stores and Staples in notebook pricing this holiday season with a Compaq notebook for $299 after rebates, or $99 with rebates and a 12-month subscription to Vonage, according to bargain-hunting Web site Black Friday Ads.
The site posts scans of Sunday newspaper inserts before they get delivered in papers. The deals can change, but history shows that the prices reflected in the ads become a reality. Steve Baker at NPD Techworld earlier this month predicted that $99 laptops, after all rebates and specials, would appear this holiday season.
Wal-Mart and Staples have come out with $398 and $399 Compaq notebooks.
The Circuit City notebook is similar, with a few exceptions. It comes with a Celeron processor from Intel rather than processors from Advanced Micro Devices. The Circuit City laptop, however, contains a drive that burns both DVDs and CDs, not just CDs like the Wal-Mart laptop. Wal-Mart's site is no longer advertising the cheap Compaq laptop, an indication that it may already be sold out.
All three come with 512MB of memory, a 15.4-inch screen and a 60GB hard drive.
Circuit City currently sells the Compaq notebook for $499--it says the computer ordinarily lists for $680. To get to $299, Circuit City gives consumers a $280 instant rebate at the store and a coupon for a $100 mail-in rebate ($680 minus $380 comes to $299).
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The site posts scans of Sunday newspaper inserts before they get delivered in papers. The deals can change, but history shows that the prices reflected in the ads become a reality. Steve Baker at NPD Techworld earlier this month predicted that $99 laptops, after all rebates and specials, would appear this holiday season.
Wal-Mart and Staples have come out with $398 and $399 Compaq notebooks.
The Circuit City notebook is similar, with a few exceptions. It comes with a Celeron processor from Intel rather than processors from Advanced Micro Devices. The Circuit City laptop, however, contains a drive that burns both DVDs and CDs, not just CDs like the Wal-Mart laptop. Wal-Mart's site is no longer advertising the cheap Compaq laptop, an indication that it may already be sold out.
All three come with 512MB of memory, a 15.4-inch screen and a 60GB hard drive.
Circuit City currently sells the Compaq notebook for $499--it says the computer ordinarily lists for $680. To get to $299, Circuit City gives consumers a $280 instant rebate at the store and a coupon for a $100 mail-in rebate ($680 minus $380 comes to $299).
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