£149 colour laser printer sighted

FANCY a colour laser printer? Do yourself a favour and check the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W and claim your free additional two-year warranty. At £149+VAT, it is surely the cheapest new colour laser in town. It can print at 20ppm in black and five in colour, all at a 2400x600dpi. It has a tiddly footprint and weighs only 18Kg. 32MB memory and a monthly duty cycle of 20000 pages make it an ideal small office printer.

Tough call. Would you rather buy a Dual Xeon 3GHz rig or an AMD X2 4200+ processor with dual cores. The X2 4200 costs $589 while the two Xeons will cost you only $514. The latter have a 800MHz FSB and 1MB each. But they are OEMed and do not support 64-bit. As for the 4200+, Newegg has them boxed and with support for 64-bit plus they will overclock fairly well. Both come with free shipping. Still it is a tough choice.

Bestbuy is selling a 6GB gateway Photo jukebox MP3 player which is only 0.7-inch thick, yet is capable of up to ten hours play back. Then 1.6-inch TFT LCD display is too small though for those looking to watch some films using the embedded Windows Media Player 10. Connectivity is assured through a USB 2.0 interface. $249.99.

If you live in some of the cities covered by AMD's tech tour in the US, then you will be able to purchase some kewl hardware for a fraction of the normal price - but you will have to buy them beforehand. Two Opteron 246 processors, a Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro motherboard and a Microsoft Server 2003 x64 edition will cost you only $500.

PCconnection has the cheapest Dual Layer Dual format recorder available from Sony. At only $39.95 after $30 rebates, the Sony DRU710A will be more than adequate for your burning tasks. It comes with a 2MB buffer and burns DVD+R media at up to 16x. µ