Recent content by modemboy

They changed the terms on the 15th and added this bit: "You are only eligible for this offer if you receive this offer in an email sent to you directly from PayPal." Sorry guys, you gotta strike while the deal is [H]ot!

Yup that is what I am doing... Mine shipped today as well, the price is back to 49.99 and showing in stock on the website...

Comprehensive review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/PSU/V-Series/V-Series.html I'm in for one to go with the TD $20 AR Ultra Microfly. I have a 500w X-finity and it works fine so far.

Mine has been approved, I mailed it on the 13th... Pretty good turn around. gesicht unless you got the black one that rebate code should have worked...

Ummm, 2650 looks right to me: http://www.onrebate.com/OfferDetails.aspx?rebid=7150 I used that one too, I hope mine doesn't get denied...

Well, I called in the early afternoon PST, waited at least 15 minutes on hold, talked to a someone who transfered me to some other guy, he took my info and said he needed to check if they had any replacements available. I was at work and gave him my work number to call back, an hour or two later...

Now that's a laugh! Creative spend money on hardware developement? The Xi-fi is their first real upgrade since 1998. They have been milking the EMU10K chip for 8 years. Creative spends money on lawyers and advertising, that's about it.

It makes the noise if I connect the power and flip the toggle switch on the powersupply to on. I did have it hooked up to my motherboard so I don't know if that made a difference as it was drawing enough power to light the mobo led.

Look up 2 posts...

Mine works but makes a whine noise when power is connected to it, even turned off. Outpost is sending me a new one, hope I have better luck...

Be careful, the keyboard doesn't come with a receiver, so it is useless unless you also have the regual remote that comes with the ir dongle...

I beleive they came along with the buyout of The Good Guys, at least at the store I went to the whole AV section was still run as a quasi-seperate entity of The Good Guys inside the CompUSA store. Like gwarren007 I also threw the employees for a loop, I asked for a price check on the sub and...

Wow, I found an Energy Speakers 10.3 subwoofer for $200, normally $500 and a good deal at that price. Thanks for the post!

That is because the cuts don't happen until the 24th, 4 days from now. Try reading the link. Also Monarch Computer is selling them at those prices with a mobo combo.

I dunno who exactly you've been talking to but these laptops are more than capable of playing HD content. I get about 75% cpu utilization when playing back 1080i content. less with 720p. Go download some HD test content if you would like to test for yourself...