$250 Colour Laser, $39 PCIe graphics card

WE'RE trying to convince resellers in this column to offer freebies or additional discounts to our readers. If you do buy from any of the guys listed here, just tell them that you come from theinquirer's daily buy column. And, resellers or readers alike, if you have some hot and spicy deals. Send me a line.

Compuvest is selling the States' lowest priced colour laser printer at $250. It is an ol' HP Colour Laserjet 1500 with a printing speed of 16ppm comined with a 600dpi resolution. It is massive at 25Kg and will take desk space. With 16MB memory and a monthly duty cycle of 600 pages per day, it will churn through your printing chores without breaking a sweat.

Buy.com has some good deals for us. First a 20-inch LCD TV display for only $399.99 from SVA, the VR-20. It is new and does not require a Mail in rebate. It has a component, S Video, Composite and D Sub input. Two speakers lie on both sides and its 24-bit colour depth matches its competitors. For the rest; v-chip included, progressive scan and 400:1 ratio.

Then' there's that large format colour printer from HP for only $250 including free shipping. The Deskjet 9600 uses 6-inks for better printing and accepts up to A3 sheets. On top of that it has a resolution of up to 4800dpi and can print at up to 15ppm. it is equipped with a USB2.0 port.

Newegg has a refurbished Sapphire X300SE graphics card for sale. It is a PCI-express model with 128MB memory. It has a S-video Out and 64-bit interfaced 400MHz clocked video. It might not be a spectacular card but it will probably be much better at games than any integrated graphics module out there. $39 including free shipping.

From experience, memory upgrade is often the best thing you could get for your system. I set out to find out the cheapest laptop with a decent amount of memory for Windows XP i.e. 512MB. Turns out that on Ebay, there's a Dell Latitude C600 on sale for only $325. It comes with a P3 750 with Speedstep, 512MB memory, 10GB HDD, a separate 8MB ATI mobility chip, a 14.1-inch TFT screen and the usual stuff. OS is Windows 2K. Very good buy.

His geekness, Mr Geek, is selling a MSI Megaplayer 515 USB FM MP3 voice recorder with headset for only $51. Many things differentiate this one from other such players. It come form a well known brand, it is WMA compliant and has an OLED display. The earphones are far from rubbish and it packs up to 15 hours playing time. µ