A large, vivid LCD monitor captures your attention and lets your video card show off its processing power as well. Not convinced? Take a look at the Acer X223WBD 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor…and let it enchant your senses!

A Broader Perspective

The Acer X223WBD 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor offers a viewing experience that’s almost untouchable: 1650×1080 true screen resolution. With a native 16:9 aspect ratio, you get to view all your favorite DVD movies the way you’d see them in the widescreen format they were intended for. You’ll also benefit from the large workspace when it comes to productivity software and content creation applications. Likewise, the monitor’s 2500:1 contrast ratio displays deep blacks and pure whites, retaining depth and dimension. What’s more, this Acer has a fast response time of 5ms, which allows the monitor to display fast-moving images without a hitch.

The Acer X223WBD 22-inch monitor is capable of displaying over 16-million colors, making the images it displays almost lifelike in quality. Once you’ve used this LCD giant, it’s going to be hard going back to your smaller, less powerful LCD! Almost forgot! This monitor has a brightness level rated at 300 cd/m². Thanks to this, images remain crystal clear even when near another strong light source. Ultimately, numbers like these result in a better viewing experience.

In terms of sheer style, the Acer X223WBD 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor is a wonderful showpiece—and a great addition to any computer room. The Acer X223WBD 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor looks sleek and modern. It has an attractive black and silver color scheme and very slim profile, making the monitor fit easily, even in cramped workspaces. The X223WBD has a narrow bezel design, which makes the monitor look really sexy. Once you fire it up, prepare to be thoroughly impressed: The Acer X223WBD 22-inch Widescreen LCD is an remarkable monitor inside and out.

With everything it offers, the Acer X223WBD 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor is bound to give you a broader perspective on desktop computing. It’s big. It’s beautiful, and there’s simply nothing more you could ask from a monitor like this!

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The problem is, how do you get a great Notebook PC for less, without sacrificing quality? The solution: buy USA. The Systemax Medallion XVII Laptop Computer a fine example of American Craftsmanship and attention to quality. You’ll get a powerful system that’s already got owners passing out gold medals for excellence!

A Home-Grown Gold Medal Experience

One tremendous advantage of the Systemax Medallion XVII offers is its relatively compact and lightweight build. Despite having a 17-inch LCD screen (a size that makes this laptop a desktop replacement) the laptop remains easy to carry around. Its a good choice for students, business users, and multimedia enthusiasts who want to take their interests with them. This laptop lacks gimmicks and garish design elements, which is perfect. Its full-sized keyboard facilitates and simplifies the overall mobile computing experience. There is beauty in simplicity, and this laptop embodies that maxim.

As a desktop replacement, the Systemax Medallion XVII is configured to be a power performer. Let’s start off with what we see: the 17-inch matte-finish LCD display is not only beautiful, it also provides a larger workspace. Obviously, a display is only part of the computer. Even more important are the parts that power the laptop’s performance: an Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 processor, 2 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics card, a 250GB hard drive, and a DVD-RW drive. To put it bluntly: That’s a lot of Potential!

The combined processor and DDR2 memory are more than ready to tackle everything from basic computing tasks to demanding multithreaded applications. The Systemax Medallion XVII’s graphics card sits way above the average for most laptops; it makes short work of most games and graphics-intensive applications such as movies and multimedia content-creation suites. The hard drive is big: perfect for today’s demanding storage needs. Needless to say, it will allow you to store thousands of MP3s, pictures, videos and documents. Its DVD-RW drive allows playback for DVD movies and burning as well. The Systemax Medallion XVII is the perfect alternative to your desktop.

The Systemax Medallion XVII comes with Windows Vista Home Premium, enhancing your overall computing experience. Featuring support for more advanced security and multimedia standards, this OS enables your laptop to max out its performance potential.

Apart from that, the Systemax Medallion XVII offers flexible connection options. It has three USB ports as well as FireWire for attaching peripherals. With built-in 802.11 b/g Wireless, LAN and a 56k modem, you’re ready to surf the Net and communicate with friends, coworkers, or relatives online.

With all this and more, the Systemax Medallion XVII is truly the modern desktop replacement. With it, you’ll have an extremely powerful Notebook that you can take with you anywhere you go. Plus, everything from assembly to customer assistance is based right in the good old U.S.A!

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Known for performance, price and style, Toshiba’s Satellite laptops have always been a respected member of the performance notebook arena. Continue that tradition with the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC: an all-around laptop that’s got all the charm of previous Satellite models…and then some.

Jack of All Trades: The Notebook Version

The first thing you’ll notice about the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC is its redesigned chassis. While the older models never fell short in the aesthetics department, this one is even more visually striking. Look at it from the front, and you’ll see its bold, fresh lines and metallic blue color. The attractive skin will give other “good and gray” portable PCs a run for their money!

As expected, the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC’s looks are only part of their appeal. Performance and feature-wise, it also ranks high for its price range and class: Featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 processor at 1.83GHz, 3 gigabytes of DDR 2 RAM, an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, and a 200GB hard drive at 4,200rpm all adds up to is a superb computing experience. The dual core processor and ample RAM run everything easily, from the most basic to much more advanced applications. If you multi-task a lot then you’ll love what this laptop can do. There’s no question: this laptop is ready to take full advantage of the included Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System.

Are you a fan of digital media? You’ll find yourself easily enthralled. Its graphics accelerator lets you run video applications and games smoothly. Its hard disk grants you the space to store large amounts of data, whether it be documents or MP3 files or movies. With dedicated multimedia controls at the top of the keyboard, you are always in full control. The Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC’s brilliant 15.4-inch widescreen LCD produces amazingly vivid images. The Harman/Kardon speakers make movies sound alive! Just insert a DVD into its optical drive and let the system do the rest–And as if that weren’t enough, the drive is also a capable burner as well (with support for a wide variety of media formats).

The Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC is Internet ready too, with a variety of connectivity options including Wireless 802.11 b/g, LAN and a 56k modem. With an integrated webcam and microphone, chatting and videoconferencing over the Internet is possible as well!

Extra features complete this great laptop, the best of which is its USB Sleep-and-Charge function that lets you charge USB devices even with the laptop in sleep mode. To finish off the list, the laptop has an Express Card slot, a 5-in-1 media card reader, FireWire port, four USB ports, and VGA and S-video outputs. Read: This laptop has the potential to do an extremely wide range of tasks.

The result is a laptop that can tackle everything you throw at it. The Toshiba Satellite A305-S6834 Notebook PC is an affordable, multimedia-ready dual-core “jack of all trades” kind of Laptop!

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Let us make your choice a bit simpler: the Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer is the perfect printer for you…especially if you have a small to mid-sized business that tackles large-scale print projects on a daily basis.

Set Phasers to “Work Really Hard”

Printing loads in black-and-white has never been easier and faster. The Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer is at it’s simplest a sturdy printer with an astounding 1200×1200 DPI resolution. This printer is guaranteed to deliver crisp and clear text and image quality on every page. Because this Phaser printer makes use of Xerox’s Emulsion Aggregate (EA) Toner, you get sharper, uniform image quality than with conventional toner (or conventional printers, for that matter). The EA Toner is also capable of delivering improved fine lines and text at a much faster warm-up time. With the maximum duty cycle of 300,000 pages per month, don’t worry about ruining your printer during the busiest office days. Because of its standard paper input and output capacities of 1100 and 500 sheets, you’ll be able to print a large amount of documents at any given time.

Having several computers in your office no longer means several printers as well. Since this unit comes with 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet support, you can connect a number of computers to the Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer through your office’s network. This printer can also be configured to be a dedicated printer by using its USB 2.0 connectivity option or a parallel port, if you’re using an older system.

The Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer not only offers fast printing time and capacity. It also has other features that greatly improve the way we print in the office. With this feature-packed printer, you get to separate print jobs with blank sheets, making it easy to identify separate printjob documents from each other. You can also collate and print multiple copies of multiple-page files in the proper order!

You can also set the printer to punch holes or staple the sheets together automatically, making your documents instantly ready for distribution. AutoFit automatically scales a page to best fit the sheet size of print media in the designated input array. This is a very environment-friendly feature because it reduces the amount of waste you accumulate on printing errors: You won’t have to discard paper just because you printed on A4 when it should have been on Legal.

The Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer is so easy to install and manage because it has One-touch Phaser Installer (Guess how many buttons it takes to install it), PhaserSMART (providing online troubleshooting assistance), and Enhanced PrintingScout which provides on-screen instructions throughout the entire print job when the printer needs attention.

The Xerox Phaser 5500/N Mono Laser Printer is a great-value, heavy-duty printer that is able to lower the total cost of ownership in the long run. So Presto! Just like that, your search for the perfect mono-laser printer is over. You’re Welcome!

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This low-priced PC has an AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. Pay attention to your PC: your photo- and video-editing suites are salivating!

A Gifted Entertainment Desktop

Before we dive into the guts of this budget-friendly PC, let’s take a look at it from the outside. The microtower’s glossy front panel has two 3.5-inch drive bays and a 9-in-1 media card reader located behind a transparent door. Four USB ports are placed on the top of the computer casing for easy access (as they should be) along with the microphone and headphone jacks. There’s also four other USB ports on the back of the case. Another BIG advantage: An HDMI port, VGA-out, and a FireWire port are also located on the back of the PC. Four more 3.5-inch internal drive bays can be found inside the unit. This means that if you need more drives, they can still be accommodated.

Running on the Windows® Vista™ Home Premium operating system, the Acer Aspire M5100 Desktop PC has all the prerequisites for 64-bit processing. Thanks to the AMD Phenom 9500, the Acer Aspire M5100 Desktop PC can easily run several simultaneous multi-threaded applications, pushing through the most demanding processing loads. If you’re looking for a computer specifically designed for advanced multitasking, intricate visual design, and visually stunning digital media and entertainment, this PC is for you.

One of the first to use four cores all sharing a Level 3 cache, the AMD Phenom 9500 processor works by pumping out one large chunk of data to a single core, or sending smaller chunks in its four processors. It also boasts of having “true” quad-core design that handles data efficiently. All four cores are laid out on a single die, and all of them use 2MB of L3 cache. The unified L3 cache contributes to an amazingly rapid system response and phenomenal system performance.

This powerhouse quad-core has Cool‘n’Quiet™ 2.0 technology to reduce heat and noise during demanding operation. Working along with this technology are HyperTransport, which works by increasing the communication speed between components for a computer performance that’s fast and reliable, and Enhanced Virus Protection which provides security against viruses, worms, and Trojan horses that abound even online.

Additionally, the Acer Aspire M5100 Desktop PC comes with a DVD±RW/-RAM Dual Layer drive. An ATI Radeon™ HD2400 takes care of graphics, video, and direct digital video connectivity (Read: That uber-handy HDMI Port we mentioned earlier) that makes high quality entertainment available on your PC. It comes with a multimedia keyboard for easy one-touch access to your Internet shortcuts, playback control, volume control (and a sleep button. Hey, we’ve all got to rest). This package also includes an optical mouse and speakers. If you’re looking to make your hard-earned cash go as far as possible, you’ve found the PC you’ve been looking for: The Acer Aspire M5100 AMD Desktop PC.

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Today, another trend is causing storage to multiply at shocking rates: the ever-rising adoption of digital content and the businesses based on storing and sharing that data. Terabytes aren’t good enough for some of today’s content-driven businesses. They need an extremely different storage solution for mind-blowing amounts of data.

The answer is extreme scale storage, and it’s about to change everything.

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With the Windows XP Professional operating system, AMD Sempron LE-1150 processor, 1 GB of DDR2 667 memory, and 80GB SATAII hard drive, this affordable, space-saving, and environment-friendly desktop computer is completely designed for business use.

Ultra Small Wonder

The Lenovo A61e 6418-13U AMD Desktop PC‘s ultra small form factor just makes it perfect for offices with limited space. With its size, you can get full use of any room by taking as many units as you see fit, and you can also just put one anywhere without having to worry about potentially cluttering up an already messy workspace. What’s more is that while productivity is increased, power consumption is reduced thanks to the environment-friendly design that starts with an extremely compact, yet solidly built, tool-free case which can be easily separated into two different pieces for quick memory and hard drive upgrades.

While its exterior is made of recycled resins to save the environment, its AMD Sempron LE-1150 processor help in reducing the computer’s energy consumption. It only expends 45W of power, but has a good 2GHz processor speed, and AMD64, Hypertransport and Cool’n'Quiet technologies that all work for an energy-saving, heat- and noise-reducing computer system.

AMD64 technology enables your computer to handle both 32- and 64-bit applications, while Hypertransport enables high speed I/O communication, and Cool’n'Quiet that works so you can enjoy high performance, overall power savings, energy efficiency, and seamless multitasking, minus the distracting heat and noise. Now you know why it has been awarded with an EPEAT gold rating, and tagged as Energy Star 4 compliant. If your work demands more than 1GB of RAM, you can up the desktop PC’s ante with up to 4GB of memory. The integrated ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card provides a mainstream solution for general desktop use such as sending and receiving email, word processing, and going online.

Aside from being good to the environment and also good at handling basic office applications, the Lenovo A61e 6418-13U AMD Desktop PC has a DVD-ROM / CD-RW Combo optical drive, 6 USB slots, Gigabit Ethernet, several audio jacks, and a VGA port, so you can easily use this versatile mini computer as a media center PC if you have an HDTV with VGA input or HDMI.

Inexpensive yet efficient, the Lenovo A61e 6418-13U AMD Desktop PC can definitely be proud of its low wattage, cool-running processor, space-saving design, and 64-bit desktop computing that is future-proof and forward-thinking. Companies that are interested in saving space and cutting down on power costs will surely love using such an environment-friendly computer system in their business.

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TigerDirect along with Benq, Logitech, Mitsubishi and Accuscreen gave away some GREAT gifts at this most recent show shown on May 2, 2008.

A big thanks to Dr. Gadget for hooking us up with this great event!

As further testimony to its market leadership and the central role storage solutions play in the digital world today, Seagate projects that although it took 29 years to reach the 1 billion milestone, the company will ship its next billion in less than five years. Also, by the time its nearest competitor reaches 1 billion drives shipped, Seagate will already be close to shipping its second billion.

Seagate’s billionth drive milestone comes as hard drive shipments continue to increase dramatically. According to Gartner Group, last year alone more than 500 million drives were shipped, compared to 1990, when slightly less than 30 million were shipped.

The rapid growth of digital content continues to come from a wide range of sources. For example, analysts estimate that there are over one billion digital still and phone cameras in the world and that those devices accounted for 250 billion created images in 2006. It is predicted that user-generated content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) will produce 65 billion downloads/views by 2010.

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A Better Quad-Core

For less than $200, you get to finally experience true quad-core performance. If you want great power for less price, then you should definitely consider the AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core Processor. Its quad-core architecture is largely different from what the competition offers, because four of its execution cores sit under a single die. Like its other Phenom brothers, the 9550 features a built-in North Bridge with a memory controller and L3 cache working at their own frequency and voltage. This ability distinguishes Phenom processors from the previous-generation Athlon 64, in that the older generation’s memory controller and L3 cache are dependent on the frequency and voltage of the main processor core.

The AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core Processor has 512 KB of L2 cache per core and 2 MB of shared L3 cache. The L2 cache provides enough memory for running multi-threaded operations, and the L3 cache enables faster operation in single-threaded code. These caches work so well that they deliver incredible performance for both multi-threaded and single-threaded applications.

Aside from its noteworthy architecture, the AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core Processor has a processor speed of 2.20 GHz and a 1800 MHz Front Side Bus speed. These specs allow seamless processing of data even when running demanding applications. Sure, these may not be the most impressive numbers; however, the true strength of this processor lies on its true quad-core nature. The 2.20GHz speed might be misleading: the AMD Phenom X4 9550 is running at 2.20GHz per core. And even though it’s made through 65 nm manufacturing technology, AMD claims it is capable of some 45nm processing power. For instance, the 9550 has a thermal design power of 95w, which is in terms of power efficiency, well above average.

The AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core Processor also has HyperTransport 3 Technology that regulates the amount of power coming from each core for greater computing efficiency. Other technologies like AMD Cool ‘N’ Quiet 2.0 and CoolCore further enhance computing efficiency by working together to conserve power when the system is in idle.

With all these capabilities, the AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core Processor promises to give you advanced performance quality and reliability in both games and digital media applications. Tweaked to perfection, this capable quad-core processor is an obvious choice for those AMD fans out there finally ready to go Quad-Core.

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