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Belkin Wireless-N Router - Under £20!
If you have a broadband internet connection provided by Virgin Media, this could be the ideal upgrade: a router that uses the latest, fastest wireless networking standard for less than £20.
Belkin's F5D8233UK4 is a cable router, so it won't work with ADSL unless you have a separate modem, but can also be converted for use as a wireless access point.
And, for less than £20, it's quite a bargain. Click the jump for details of where to buy.
To grab this router for under £20, click here.
Ultra-posh Wireless Keyboard: Under Half Price!
Keyboard and mouse sets come in all shapes and sizes, from the £10 plasticky models included with most computers all the way up to ludicrously expensive models with built-in displays that will set you back £60 or more. Today, though, we've found the best of both worlds: a top of the range desktop set at a bargain price.
This keyboard and mouse set comes from Logitech's premium DiNovo range, and includes a small screen built into the number pad. It's designed for notebook computers, but will of course work perfectly with a desktop - in fact, its smaller design could be handy if desk space is limited. It normally sells for just under £70, but today you can grab one for under half that price - click the jump for details.
To grab this top end desktop set at a low price, click here.
1.5TB Samsung Disk - Just £90!
There's a lot to love about Samsung's Story Station range of hard disks, starting of course with the somewhat bizarre name, but today we've found another reason to get one: a really low price. We've found a store selling a 1.5TB version - that's one and a half thousand gigabytes of storage space for your computer - for just £90.
That's enough space to hold almost half a million digital photos, or 180 hours of high definition video, so it'll keep even the biggest collection of digital media together for some time to come. It connects to your computer via a USB cable, so installation is a cinch. Click the jump for details of where to buy.
To grab this massive storage device at a low price, click here.
19in High-Def Television / Monitor - Save £90
It seems that these days televisions just get bigger and bigger - most start at 32 inches, with monstrous 40 inch, 50 inch and larger displays coming down in price. If you're looking for something a little smaller, perhaps for a second television or simply because you prefer something a little less room-dominating, this could be ideal.
LG's 19H2000 is a proper high-definition ready LCD television, but with a 19in screen it's small enough to fit into most rooms. It has a built-in Freeview TV tuner, an HDMI socket for high-definition picture sources such as Blu-ray players and also a PC input so it can be used as a computer monitor. Its normal price is £230, but we've found a store selling this TV for just £140 - click the jump for details.
To grab this tiny television at a petite price, click here.
Netgear HomePlug Twin Pack - Save 60%
Just a very quick note as we're rushing to meet Xmas deadlines, but if you use HomePlug networking then you should take a look at this deal on Amazon. It gets you two HomePlug devices, each with a built-in network switch, at a massive discount.
Logitech Harmony Remote - Save 60%!
The first remote control you get is brilliant - suddenly there's no need to wander across the room just to change the channel. The second remote control is also handy. But then there's the third, and fourth and the fifth, and the ten batteries required to keep them all running. And one of them is always lost somewhere under the sofa.
There are, of course, a few solutions. You could throw out all the remote controls and use a long stick to poke at the television controls, or perhaps stick three or four remote of them together with duct tape. Or you could stick them to the sofa. But, for a neater solution, why not replace all your remotes with just one that does the same job?
Logitech's Harmony 515 is such a remote control. It can replace up to five remote controls, and works with over 225,000 devices from over 5,000 brands. It can even be programmed using a computer - Windows XP and Vista are supported.
Normally the 515 costs £70, but today we've found a store selling it for just £28 - that's a saving of 60%, and you get free delivery as well. Click the jump for details.
To pick up this remote at a huge discount, click here.
UPDATE: Play.com, perhaps after spotting its error, has now raised the price of this item to £50 - still a decent price, but no longer a bargain.
Netgear DIY Network Storage - Save £55
Network attached storage, or NAS, devices have become more and more popular over the past few years, and you can see why: plug one into your home network and you can store all your files in one place where they'll be accessible from any computer. This surge in popularity has meant that prices have tumbled, too, and today we've found a great bargain.
Rather than a simple external disk with a network interface tagged on, Netgear's ReadyNAS RND2000 is made for a home network. It has no hard disks inside, so you'll need to buy and add one or two suitable ones (this keeps the cost down, too, as you can pick and choose the best value disks), but once equipped you can simply plug it in, turn it on and forget about it. It includes music streaming tools, also, so you can use it to store a massive collection of music that can then be streamed around the house.
And, of course, it's currently available at a great discount: £55 off the recommended price. Click the jump for details.
To grab this network storage device at a low price, click here.
Wireless Webcam: Save £120!
If you've ever toyed with the idea of adding some kind of security camera to your home - whether to look out for burglars, or simply keep an eye on pets when you're out at work - this is the deal you've been waiting for.
Although it's possible to use a standard webcam as a security camera, this is a poor solution. For one thing, you'll have to leave a PC running all the time, wasting loads of energy and pushing up your power bill. What's more, the camera will be tied to a computer by its USB lead. A better way to do things is to use a wireless network camera: these include a tiny computer and connect directly to the internet via your wireless network and broadband. And, as they're wireless, these can be easily positioned almost anywhere.
The D-Link DCS-2120 can be used to watch a live video stream of your home from any internet-connected computer, or even some mobile phones. It has motion detection, too, and can send you alerts via email. The full price for this model is £200, but we've found a store selling it for just £80 - that's a massive £120 discount. Click the jump for details.
To grab this great security camera for just £80, click here.
Lexmark all-in-one printer: Under £10!
If you're looking for an inkjet printer to print, scan and copy you simply won't find a bigger deal than this: a Lexmark all-in-one for under a tenner.
The X3470 can print at up to 17 pages per minute, scan at a resolution of 600x1200dpi or make 12 copies per minute. It can also print photos, including borderless prints. And here it's on sale for less than £10. Click the jump for details.
To pick up a printer for under £10, click here. Note that these are, unsurprisingly, refurbished units, but each comes with a six month warranty.
Nvidia 8800GT Graphics Upgrade: Save £110, now £90!
Here at Cheapo Computers we often list hard disk upgrades for desktop computers, but today we've found something a little different: a graphics upgrade at a massive discount.
Graphics cards are obviously essential if you want to enjoy the latest games, but they can have other benefits besides. Modern cards can help decode video files, making them particularly handy if you like to watch high-definition movies or videos, and they can even be harnessed by some clever tools for tasks such as copying video files to a portable player. This Zotac GeForce 8800GT graphics card would be ideal for anyone who wants to play relatively recent games such as Crysis and Call of Duty 4 with high graphical quality enabled.
And, of course, we've found it at a healthy discount: with £110 cut away from the £200 recommended price, you can grab one for £90 including postage. Click the jump for details.
To grab this powerful graphics card at a huge discount, click here.
Logitech Clear Chat headset - Save £18, now £6.25
Here's a very quick deal that could be ideal for anyone who likes to play online games, chat online or make internet phone calls using Skype. Although it's possible to do all three using a microphone and speakers, the results can be prone to annoying echoes, so a far better solution is a headset that connects to your PC - and today we've found one at a massive discount.
Logitech's Clear Chat headset isn't the most fancy or complicated of models, but it includes a clever noise-cancelling microphone and convenient volume controls. It normally sells for £25, but today we've found a store selling them for just over £6 - that's a healthy £18 saving. Click the jump for details.
To pick up this headset at a huge discount, click here.
Internet Access (almost) Anywhere - free!
If you have a laptop or mobile phone with a wireless network connection, you'll probably know that you can use it to get online in many public places, shops and cafes. You might have also noted, however, that using these "hotspots" isn't always cheap: some shops provide them for free, but in many cases you'll need to buy a voucher or pay a monthly subscription.
A case in point can be found in Starbucks coffee shops. Most of these provide wireless internet access via BT Openzone, but this costs £5.88 for a 90 minute voucher. Today, however, we've found a way to pay far less: nothing at all, in fact, for access as many times as you want in just about any Starbucks shop. Click the jump for details.
To get unlimited access to BT Openzone hotspots in Starbucks shops, you need to buy a Starbucks card and register it via the company's website. This requires a minimum top-up of £5, so pay £5, put that on the card and leave it in your wallet. Once this is done you can use the BT Openzone hotspots in most Starbucks branches (airports, train stations and supermarkets are exempt) at no cost. Cards can be purchased online here (cost for a £5 card is £6.50 including postage) or grab one in a shop.
Oh, and how is this free when it costs a fiver? When you're done, use the value on the card to buy a few coffees and you'll have your money back. Neat.
Seagate 500GB disk for £36 - Save £29!
Apologies for the lack of bargains for much of last week - the entire Cheapo Computers team (yes, that's one person) was incapacitated by a hideous, stinky cold, that left us more concerned with the price of Lemsip than computer peripherals. We're back today, though, with a brilliant bargain for desktop PC owners: an extremely fast 500GB hard disk that's selling for just over half the usual price.
Adding a new, larger hard disk to a desktop PC is one of the easiest and most worthwhile upgrades you can perform, and this 500GB Seagate Barracuda drive will add enough room for thousands of photos or music files for less than £40. It's also a speedy model with 16GB of cache memory, so it'll perform well whether you're working with huge video files or the pesky small files that can slow things down when performing backups.
The RRP for this disk is £65, but we've found a store selling them for just £36 - click the jump for details.
To buy this huge disk for just £36, click here.
Linksys Media Center Extender - Save £128!
Despite a fairly inauspicious start in Windows XP, Windows Media Center has become an essential part of many home computers. It comes included in every copy of Windows Vista Home Premium, and an improved version is bundled with Windows 7. Media Center makes for an easy way to manage photos, music and video files, especially if you're controlling the PC from a distance, but add a TV tuner and it springs to life, turning any Windows PC into one of the best TV recorders money can buy.
The one problem of using Windows Media Center as a TV recorder, however, is that it's limited to the PC: unless your computer happens to sit near a television you'll have to watch on the small screen. And that's where the DMA2100-EU comes in. This Media Center Extender device connects to a TV, and links up to a Media Center PC, giving you full access to all its content via remote control. It's a brilliant way to take your Media Center to the living room, or even to a second television elsewhere.
This amazing gadget normally costs £188, but we've found limited stock available for just £60 each - grab one before they go. Click the jump for details.
To pick up a DMA2100-EU for just £60, click here.
Digital Photo Frame: Just £20
Digital cameras have made it easier than ever to take hundreds of photos, but often digital technology means that many of our best snaps don't get shown off properly.
In the days of film just about every picture would be turned into a print or slide, but today millions sit on memory cards, just waiting for us to do something with them, or languish unloved on a computer's hard disk waiting to be printed. One clever solution is a digital photo frame that uses an LCD screen to show off digital photos with no printer or ink required.
The smallest usable size for digital photo frames is, in our opinion, 7 inches - and today we've found one selling for the stupidly low price of just £20. Click the jump for details.
To pick up a Hitachi digital photo frame for just £20, click here. They're being sold by Argos through its clearance ebay store.
21.5in Widescreen Display - Under £100!
A few years ago we were impressed to see 19in LCD monitors included with desktop computers rather than 17in models - but how time flies. Since then widescreen displays have become the norm rather than the older, squarer variety, and 21 or 22in displays are the desirable size for a home computer. And if you're thinking of replacing an old, square PC monitor, we've found a great one at a bargain price.
Acer's V223HQ is a 21.5in widescreen display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels - that means it can display 1080P high definition video. It has a VGA connector, so it'll hook up to just about any desktop or laptop computer - if your PC has a DVI connector instead adapters can be purchased for a pound or two.
Click the jump to find out where to buy.
To pick up the V223HQ for just £99, click here.
Note that there are no DVI or HDMI inputs on this monitor, but then it does cost just £99 - a great price for a big widescreen display. It doesn't support HDCP, but currently available Blu-ray discs allow HD video to be viewed over VGA.
Windows 7: Beat the Price Rise
You've probably heard the recent news that Microsoft has almost doubled the price for a full, boxed copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. If you'd rather have a complete new copy rather than the upgrade edition, the official price from Microsoft is now a whopping £150.
But we've found a far better price: £65. That's £85 off the RRP, and gets you a full, legal, non-OEM boxed copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. Click the jump for details.
To pick up a copy of Windows 7 for well under half price, click here.
UPDATE: Amazon has raised the price back up to a less impressive £125 - congratulations to all the readers who got there in time and bought one at the low price.
Microsoft Wireless Mouse - Save £15, now £9
Admittedly this deal isn't as exciting as some of the laptop and desktop computer bargains we've seen lately, but it could be handy for many people. If your mouse is getting a bit old and ropey, or if you're fed up with wrangling with the tiny touch-pad provided on many laptops, you need a nice new wireless mouse. Today we've found one from a top brand for under a tenner, and at a saving of over £15.
The Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2000 is a decent basic mouse. It's wireless, uses an optical sensor so there's no ball to get gunked up, and has two buttons and a wheel. What more could you want? The recommended price of £25 is slightly barmy, but we've found it for just £9. Click the jump for details.
To pick up this mouse for just £8.99, click here.
Nike Sport Headphones: Save £35, now £5!
There's not much that needs to be said about this particular offer - but if you're after a new pair of in-ear headphones, you won't get a bigger bargain.
These Nike sport headphones used to sell for £39.99, but you can now grab a set for just a fiver. That's a whopping £35 discount.
You might. however, be wondering what a shoe company knows about making headphones in the first place, but fear not - despite the Nike branding they're actually made by Philips. Click the jump to find out where to buy.
To pick up a set for just a fiver, click here.
16GB Kingston USB Drive - Under £20
Few computer accessories are as handy as USB thumb drives - also known as memory keys, flash drives and, incorrectly, memory sticks. With one of these nifty gadgets you can quickly and easily transfer files from one PC to another, with no need to muck about with floppy disks, CDs or DVDs.
Not so long ago the main problem with USB thumb drives was one of capacity: 512MB or 1GB of storage might be handy, but it was nowhere near the amount you could store on even a single-layer DVD. Today, however, they are available with massive capacities: the largest are still rather expensive, but we've found this 16GB model, from well-known memory brand Kingston, for under £20. Click the jump for details.
To buy this 16GB thumb drive for under £20, click here.
Archos 605 80GB Media Player - Save £175!
Many portable music players, including Apple's iPod Nano, Classic and Touch models, can also play video files, but doing so is often quite tricky: these players tend to be fussy about files, playing only the ones that have been formatted in one specific way, and many have small screens that are hardly ideal for watching a film. The best way to watch videos on the go, then, is a dedicated portable media player, or PMP - a pocket-sized device with enough hard disk space to hold several films or TV programmes and a screen big enough to enjoy them on.
Some of the best PMPs are made by Archos, and today we've found one at a crazily low price. The Archos 605 has a 4.3 inch touchscreen display and 80GB of storage. It'll play most common video and music files, and can also display photos - add an extra adapter and it can even record television programmes to play later.
The 80GB Archos 605 is currently selling for £275.95 here - but we've found a way to get one for just £100. Click the jump for details.
To buy the Archos 605 for just £100, click here. Please note that the reason for this massive discount is that these are factory refurbished items.
250GB Network Hard Disk - Save £120, Just £60
Just about every new computer sold these days comes with a hard disk of almost gigantic proportions, allowing you to store loads of documents, music or even video files. If you have more than one computer, though, this can cause problems, as it's almost guaranteed that whatever file you happen to be looking for it will always be found on the other computer.
It is possible to set up computers so that files can be accessed from other PCs using a home network, but this has its limitations: most notably that you'll have to leave every single computer on all the time in order to ensure that all files will be available - and this is hard on both the environment and, when the next electricity bill arrives, your bank account. A far neater and less power-hungry solution is to buy a hard disk that connects directly to the network. Leave this running, fill it with files and they'll be available to every computer, all the time.
Today we've found a Buffalo network hard disk that's ideal for this sort of use at a bargain price. It provides 250GB of storage - enough for 62,000 MP3 songs - and connects to computers via USB (handy for filling it up in the first place) or a network cable (it supports the fastest Gigabit networks if you have one, or the more common 100Mbps type found on most routers).
The recommended retail price for the Buffalo HS-DH250GL is £180, but we've found it for under £60 - so you save an enormous £120, and delivery is free. Click the jump for details.
To buy the Buffalo HS-DH250GL network hard disk for just £59.99 with free delivery, click here.
Wireless ADSL Router Bundle - Just £15, Save £35!
Here at Cheapo Computers we can normally find at least one excellent bargain every day, and every so often we come across something that goes one step further. Even when ranked alongside those other exceptional bargains, however, this one stands out as stupidly cheap.
This networking package includes absolutely everything you need to turn an ADSL broadband connection into a wireless one. You get an ADSL wireless router that uses 802.11g technology and also a USB wireless adapter - handy if your computer doesn't already have wireless built in. All for just under £15, with free delivery, which is less than you'd expect to pay for the adapter alone. Admittedly the router isn't the most beautiful gadget we've ever seen, but then at this price who would care.
To find out where to buy this ridiculously priced bundle, click the jump.
To pick up both gadgets for just £14.99 with free delivery, click here.
Garmin Forerunner 305 - Save £60!
Over the past few years GPS technology has moved from the preserve of rich gadget lovers to consumer products that cost less than £100. Many of us now have a car-based sat-nav that uses GPS to guide us on long journeys, for example. But that's not all that this clever satellite technology can be useful for.
If you like to walk, run or cycle you may already have a stopwatch, or even a watch with a heart rate monitor built in to help with fitness training. Even if so, you might not have realised that you can get a watch that also contains a GPS. This allows you to accurately track the distance you travel and your speed when doing so, making it easier to keep accurate tabs on your results.
The Garmin Forerunner 305 is one of the best GPS watches out there. It's small enough to sit comfortably on your wrist, and has both GPS tracking and a heart rate monitor built in. A dock is included so you can link it to your PC and download data about each trip - handy whether you're training, cycling or simply interested in how far you walk each day.
The Forerunner 305 normally costs £200, but today we've found it on sale for just £141 - click the jump for details.
To buy the Forerunner 305 for just £141, click here.
Fuji Photo Printer - Save £40, now under £30!
Inkjet printers are brilliant if you want to create both documents and photos, and they're also ideal for large A4 or A3 photo prints. If all you want to do is produce standard-sized photos, however, the idea of mucking about with ink cartridges and special paper might not appeal. One great alternative is a dye-sublimation, or dye-sub for short, printer.
Dye-sub printers are tiny and can produce 6x4in photo prints quickly and easily. They're also simple to use: instead of buying ink and paper separately you buy a photo pack that includes both sheets of paper and the special film that prints onto them. Stick both in the printer, connect your camera and you're ready to go.
Today we've found an excellent dye-sub printer, Fuji's QS-7, for just £30 - not bad considering that its recommended price is £70 and most stores sell it for around £60. To scoop up a great little printer at a bargain price, click the jump for details.
To buy the QS-7 for just £29.99 with free delivery, click here.
Epson SX200 Multifunction Printer - Half Price!
Epson makes a large range of inkjet printers and multifunction devices, and every so often one of them pops up at a bargain price. We previously found its SX100 multifunction printer selling for £25 less than usual, but today we have the SX200 - a better model - selling for just under £40. Its usual price is £80, so that's half price and a £40 discount.
The SX200 is a capable printer, copier and scanner. It can print at up to 48 pages per minute, and can create borderless A4 photos. And with a scanner built in you won't need to clutter the computer table with a separate device if you want to scan documents to email or make instant copies. Click the jump to find out where you can buy one for just under £40.
To buy an SX200 printer for less than £40, click here.
Asus Nvidia 512MB graphics card for just £37.36!
Graphics cards used to be scary things that cost hundreds of pounds, but over the last few years prices of mid-range cards have dropped quite sharply. This Asus EN9600 GSO card is a case in point: it's not a high-end device but it will work happily with most recent games at high detail settings.
It uses the Nvidia 9600 GSO chipset and has 512MB of memory, making it suitable for most gaming and, of course, for desktop tasks such as video editing. It has two DVI outputs so it can be connected to one or two desktop monitors or even (using an adaptor) a flat-panel television. At just over £37 it won't break the bank either, making it an excellent inexpensive upgrade for most desktop computers.
Find out where to buy this graphics card by clicking the jump.
To buy the Asus 9600 GSO graphics card from Scan, click here.
Two 8GB memory cards for £17.99
It wasn't long ago that it would have been a bargain to find a single 8GB memory card for under £20. So what could be better than that? That's right, two 8GB SDHC memory cards for under £20: £17.99, to be exact.
These cards, made by big name manufacturer PNY, will fit any camera that's compatible with SDHC cards. The capacity means enough space on each card for several hundred photographs from most cameras. Do note that some older cameras, which use SD memory cards, will not work with the higher-capacity SDHC cards.
Those of you with compatible cameras, find out how to buy by clicking the jump.
To buy two PNY 8GB SDHC memory cards for £17.99 from Play.com, click here.
Logitech Wave keyboard - only £19.99!
Wireless keyboards may be all the rage but there's something to be said for the wired variety - they're both more reliable and cheaper than wireless models. Logitech's wired Wave keyboard is a great example, and we've found it on sale for only £19.99. It cost £35 when it was first released last year, and most retailers are still selling it for £25, making this a 20 per cent saving.
It connects to a spare USB port on your desktop or laptop computer, and in addition to being a well-built, good-quality keyboard for typing, it has several shortcut keys that can be programmed to suit your requirements.
Click the jump to find out where to buy it.
To buy the Logitech Wave keyboard for just £19.99 click here.
Two terabytes of external storage for only £124
Computer storage is very cheap these days, and there are bargains to be had. One excellent deal is this Iomega USB hard disk, which can store two terabytes (2TB) of your music, photos, videos or in fact anything else. At £124, from Pixmania, it's around £50 cheaper than we've seen it elsewhere, and it's around half the price of many similar disks.
It uses two 1TB disks, so it's a little bigger than some smaller-capacity disks, but it's still an impressive size for the amount it can store. The disks are the faster 7200rpm variety, which means high speed transfers of your data over the USB2 connection. It works with PCs, Macs and Linux computers.
Click the jump to find out where to buy it.
To buy the Iomega 2TB external hard disk for £124 from Pixmania, click here.
23" Widescreen Display - just £140, save £60!
There's just about no computer that can't be improved by adding a bigger, better display. If you have a desktop, a new widescreen LCD will allow you to get more from movies or simply use two displays at once to make room for more windows, and if you have a laptop a separate screen will make working at a desk far more comfortable. Today we've found an ideal new display: a 23inch widescreen LCD going for just £140.
Fujitsu's L3230T is a great widescreen display. It has a full 1080P resolution, making it great for watching High Definition videos or simply fitting lots of work on the screen. It even has HDMI inputs, so you can connect a Blu-ray player or other HD source. It comes with a three-year warranty.
Better yet, we've found this great display selling for £140 - not bad when other sites are listing it for just under £200. Click the jump to find out where to buy.
To buy the Fujitsu L3230T display for just £140, visit Misco by clicking here. Note that you'll need a PC with an HDMI video output to use this display.
USB Turntable - Vinyl to MP3 - just £30
LPs and 45s still sound great if you've got a good turntable and hi-fi system to play them on, but they're hardly convenient if you want to listen at work, in the car or on a portable player. Converting old records into a modern digital format used to be a faff, but then somebody invented the USB turntable.
USB turntables take the three parts needed to get vinyl onto a PC - a turntable, pre-amplifier and sound card - and wrap them all up into one box. Rather than having to muck about connecting all three devices, you just plug the turntable into your PC via a USB port and start recording.
A quick look on Google shows that Argos is selling a USB turntable for £78, but today we've found something far more affordable - you pay just £30, and it's ready to convert 45s, 33s and even 78s. Click the jump for details.
To buy a USB turntable for just £30, click here.
More storage bargains: 1TB Hitachi external disk for £69
You never can have too much hard disk space on a computer, so it's just as well that we've found another bargain-priced external storage device. This time it's a Hitachi 1TB (1,000GB) hard disk being sold at a 30% discount.
Hitachi claims that the 1TB SimpleDrive can hold 284,000 digital photos, 250,000 MP3 files or 400 hours of DVD-quality video. That's a lot of stuff. It connects to your computer via USB2, so transferring even the largest files will be quick, and turns on and off automatically with your PC. Backup software is included in the box.
It normally sells for £100, which is quite a lot of cash, but we've a store selling brand new models for just £69.99 - that's a pleasant £30 off. To buy one, click the jump.
To pick up this 1TB hard disk for just £69.99, click here.
D-Link DIR-635 Wireless N Router - Save £25
Routers are, without a shadow of a doubt, boring. You buy one, spend an hour or so getting it set up, and then what does it do? Nothing. It just sits there, blinking obstinately at you while it gets on with its job of ferrying information to and from the internet. How very dull.
On the other hand, they're incredibly useful: after you've endured the aforementioned hour or so of faffing about you can quickly and easily connect to the internet from anywhere in the house, wirelessly, and even from several computers or devices at once. Handy.
If you haven't got a router, then, you should get one, and if you have an old router you might consider upgrading it to one that supports the newer, faster 802.11n wireless standard. Today we've found a D-Link DIR-635 going for just £35 - not bad, given that most stores are selling it for £55 to £60, and ideal for any cable broadband users. Click the jump for details.
To buy the DIR-635 for £35, from Argos Clearance, click here.
16GB Apple iPod Touch - Save £25
When Apple launched the iPod Touch it advertised it as "the funnest iPod ever". While we can't possibly condone such an abuse of the English language, we do have to concede that it is, at the very least, great fun. The Touch is, essentially, an iPhone without the phone: you get the same touch screen controls, the same ability to add new programs via the App store, the same Safari web browser and a wireless connection so you can surf the web whenever you're in range of a hotspot.
So, what's the downside? Well, packing all this technology into the Touch made it significantly more expensive than the other iPod models, and the basic 8GB model doesn't give you that much room for music and movies. Today, though, we've solved both problems: we've found a store selling the 16GB iPod Touch for £189 - that's £25 less than the standard price at the Apple Store. Click the jump for the details.
So why's this iPod selling so cheap, and where can you buy it? First things first: this is a brand new iPod, being sold off by the high-street chain Argos (who presumably had too much stock, as it's listed on the company's clearance service). To buy one, click here.
Polaroid photo printer £35 - save £65!
There are dozens of ways to print photos these days - using an inkjet printer, for instance, going into a high street store with your memory card or even uploading photos to the internet and waiting for the prints to arrive in the mail a few days later. None, however, are as easy as this.
The Polaroid name is synonymous with instant photo prints, and the PoGo printer is the latest version of its technology. It's tiny and produces photo prints in just a few seconds and, cleverly enough, it doesn't require any costly ink cartridges: instead the special Zink (Zero-Ink) paper develops into a full-colour print in seconds.
So, what's the downside? Well, since its launch the PoGo has been a little too expensive for our liking, coming in at just under £100. Today, however, we've found it for just £35 - that's well under half price, and a saving of £65. Click the jump to buy one.
To buy the PoGo printer for just £35, click here.
Dell 22in Designer Monitor - Save £500
Discounts don't come much bigger than this: a massive £500 off the price of a top of the range monitor.
Dell's 22 inch Crystal monitor is a far cry from the boring black displays included with most PCs - the screen is built into a sheet of tempered glass that also holds four speakers and a 2-megapixel webcam.
The screen has a high resolution of 1680x1050 pixels and has a higher-than-average 98% colour gamut, making it great for editing photos. Its response time is a tiny 2ms, so it's suitable for gaming too.
The slightly space-age design won't suit every room, but it's certainly unique. This display originally came at a premium price of just under £700 - but today you can get one for £500 less. Click the jump to find out how to get the discount.
To buy the Crystal display at a £500 discount, click here.
1.5TB External Hard Disk - Save £60!
External hard disks are a great way to add loads of extra storage space to a PC that's filling up, and just as convenient whether you use a desktop computer, a laptop or a netbook.
We've listed a few great buys here lately, with 1TB models available at prices as low as £70. If you're prepared to pay a little more, though, you can get even more storage space.
Today we've found a 1.5TB (that's fifteen hundred gigabytes of space) external hard disk made by leading storage firm Seagate for just £99.99 - that's just about 7p per gigabyte, and about as cheap as you'll ever see in an external disk of this size. The list price for this product is £160, so you'll be saving over 35%. Click the jump to find out where to buy it.
To buy a Seagate Expansion 1.5TB hard disk for just £99.99, with free delivery, click here.
Epson SX100 Multifunction Printer - Save £25
A little while back we found a fantastic deal on Epson's SX100 multifunction printer, but sadly it was such a good buy that Epson quickly ran out of stock. Today, though, we've found another store selling it at a 40% discount - that's £25 off the recommended price.
The Epson SX100 can print borderless A4 photos and, unlike many cheaper multifunction printers, uses separate colour ink tanks so you need only replace the ones that run out. It can print text at up to 26ppm (pages per minute) or a 10x15cm glossy photo in 94 seconds. Click the jump to find out where to buy it for just £35.
To buy the SX100 for just £35, click here.
1TB External Hard Disk - under £70
Not so long ago we posted a 1TB external hard disk being sold for the fantastic price of £75. And while that's still a really good price, we've just found an even better deal.
This one's made by another big name - Buffalo Technology - and like the Seagate disk it'll connect to just about any PC or Mac via USB. It turns on and off automatically with the computer, and even includes a special turbo mode that can speed up the time taken to write files.
Best of all, we've found this huge disk selling for just £69.99 - that makes it the cheapest 1TB external disk here yet. So where can you buy it? Click the jump to find out.
To pick up this huge hard disk for less than £70, click here.
Logitech PC Speakers for £9
Most laptop computers have speakers built in but, let's face it, they sound awful. They might suffice for the occasional bleeps and bloops that Windows likes to produce when it goes wrong, but for listening to music or playing games you really need a set of speakers that's actually designed to sound good rather than simply being small enought to cram into a computer case.
Today we've found an ideal set of speakers if you want decent stereo sound without taking up too much room on your desk or, more importantly, breaking the bank. Made by the well-known brand Logitech, the X-140 set includes two speaker enclosures, each containing two speakers, and produces 5w RMS - more than enough for use on a desk.
The X-140 set is currently selling for around £25 on Play.com - which isn't a bad price - but we've found somewhere selling them brand new for just £9. Click the jump to find out where.
To buy the X-140 speakers for just £8.99, click here.
Network colour laser printer - just £90
Inkjet printers are fine if you only need to print a few sheets now and again, but for larger jobs they can quickly become extremely expensive. If you're printing more than a few pages at a time, or dozens of pages per week, then you need a laser printer.
The problem with laser printers has, traditionally, been one of price. Although black and white models could easily be found for under £100, colour ones often cost much more. Today, though, we've found a colour laser printer for less than £90 - and, better yet, it's ready to connect to a home network, allowing you to print from any PC.
The printer is a Xerox Phaser 6110N (spec here), and it's capable of churning out 24,000 prints per month - if you really need it to. It can hold 150 sheets of paper ready to print and can produce up to 16ppm in mono. Click the jump to find out where to buy it at a bargain price.
To buy the Xerox Phaser 6110N for less than £90, click here.
Epson SX100 Multifunction Printer - Half Price!
Almost everybody these days needs a printer but multifunction devices, which have a scanner built-in so they can also scan and photocopy, are generally far better value and take up less space on your desk than a bunch of separate gadgets and the jumble of cables used to connect them. Today we've found a great Epson multifunction printer at half the usual price - and less than £30.
The Epson SX100 can print borderless A4 photos and, unlike many cheaper multifunction printers, uses separate colour ink tanks so you need only replace the ones that run out. It can print text at up to 26ppm (pages per minute) or a 10x15cm glossy photo in 94 seconds. Click the jump to find out where to buy it for half the usual price.
You can get this great printer deal directly from the manufacturer, Epson - click here.
UPDATE: Epson has now sold every one of these printers and has raised the price again. However, don't despair - as of the 4th of June you can still buy an HP4210 multifunction printer for just £32 (again, that's half price). Click here for details.
1TB Seagate External Disk - Save 25%
It must theoretically be possible to have too much hard disk space, but we can't ever think of a situation where this would be the case. If you use your computer to store music you're likely to find that even the largest internal disk fills up quickly, and if you edit home movies taken on a high-def camera whole gigabytes can disappear in seconds right in front of your eyes. Adding internal hard disks can be cheap, but it's not a simple option if you have a laptop computer.
Today, though, we've found a quick and easy way to add an entire Terabyte (1,012GB) of storage space to your computer - and at a healthy 25% off the normal price with free delivery included. It's a Seagate 1TB external disk that connects to your computer via USB2 - click the jump to find out where to get it.
To buy this 1TB Seagate Hard Disk for £75 rather than £99, visit Play.com here.
Free mobile broadband kit
Mobile broadband can be great, but if you only need occasional access then the idea of forking out for a USB modem (dongle) and a contract is likely to put you off. Today, though, we've found a site giving away free dongles - all you need to do is pay for postage, and use a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband service.
The dongles are being given away in partnership with the 3 network, and postage and packing is a very reasonable £5. To find out where to get yours, click the jump.
To get your free dongle, head to the website here. A few terms and conditions apply - see the site for details.
Sony E-Reader PRS-505 eBook - Save £50
Electronic book readers have been around for a while, but it's only recently that they've become good enough to rival their paperback cousins. One of the best ebook readers out there is Sony's E-Reader PRS-505, and we've found a deal where you can get it for £50 less than usual.
The PRS-505 has a high-tech 6-inch e-ink screen, and can run for 7,000 page turns - that's over four times through Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, in case you were wondering, or fifteen times through the Da Vinci Code* - before it'll need new batteries. And, at just 8mm thick, it's substantially slimmer than even a short paperback.
The PRS-505 has a recommended price of £229, and normally costs around £200, but we've found it for sale for just £179 including free delivery. Click the jump for details.
To buy the PRS-505 for just £179 with free delivery, visit Play.com here.
* That's fifteen times too many, if you ask us, but there you go..
One Day Deal - Logitech Harmony One, Save £40
Remote controls - great when you have one, handy when you have two, and a complete nightmare when you end up with half a dozen, all running out of batteries and with at least one lost down the back of the sofa at any given point. There is, however, a solution: a universal control that replaces each and every one of them.
Universal remote controls can be programmed to control just about anything: your TV, DVD, hi-fi, Blu-ray player and Sky box, for example. Logitech's Harmony One replaces up to fifteen remotes, in fact, and, rather than dozens of buttons with nonsensical items, gives you access to them via a colour touchscreen display. It's normally rather expensive, but today only you can get it for £40 less than usual - click the jump to find out how.
The Harmony One remote normally costs around £120 to £130, but we've found a store selling them for just £84 including VAT. The promotion is today only and while stocks last. Click here to buy one.
HP F4210 Printer - Half Price
All in one printers are great for use at home: as well as a colour photo printer you get a scanner and colour copier built into the same box. This saves space on your desk, and also saves you a packet - especially when you get one for less than half the usual price.
HP's F4210 (product info here) can print borderless A4 photos, or when printing text can produce it at up to 17 pages per minute (ppm). The package includes OCR software for the scanner, so you can turn paper documents into editable text.
The RRP for this printer is £70, and many stores charge around £45 to £50, but we've found one selling it for just £33 with free delivery - that's less than half price. Click the jump to find out where.
The F4210 is currently being sold for just £32.99, including free delivery, by Play.com. Click here to buy one.
19" LCD TV with Freeview and DVD just £130
The high street shops are full of huge LCD televisions at low prices, but most measure at least 26" across - great for a large living room, but less ideal in smaller homes or as a second screen for a bedroom. Never mind, though - if you're looking for a slightly smaller flatscreen TV we've found one at a brilliant price.
We've found a 19" widescreen TV with built in Freeview, a DVD player and an HDMI port. It also has a SCART socket for connecting most video devices and a VGA socket so you can use it as a computer display. Click the jump to find out where to buy one.
This TV is being sold by Dabs.com as part of its DabsValue range, but the part code listed is that of a Digimate LTV-1929WHTC - click here for a full specification for that product, or to buy one click here.
Microsoft Keyboard Sets - Save 40%
They might not be the most exciting part of a PC, but as you use them almost constantly the keyboard and mouse are certainly among the most important. A jumpy, jerky mouse can be frustrating beyond belief, while a poor keyboard could actually cause harm if you type regularly. Fortunately, we've found a couple of Microsoft's rather nice keyboard and mouse sets going for at least 40% less than usual.
If all you want is a decent quality wireless keyboard and mouse, then check out the Wireless Optical Desktop 2000. This runs from standard AA batteries (each set will last six months) and comes with a 3 year guarantee from Microsoft. The normal price is around £30, but we've found it for £18 - that's 40% off.
If you're looking for something a little snazzier, though, check out the Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000, pictured above, which we've found at almost half price. Click the jump for details and links.
The Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 connects via Bluetooth, so with many laptops you won't even need to use the included USB receiver, and includes a mini touchpad on the keyboard so it's ideal if you want to control your PC without a mouse (from the sofa, for example). It normally costs a whopping £130, but we've found it for £70 - that's almost half price.
Both deals are available from Play.com. Click here for the Optical Desktop 2000 at 40% off and here for the Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 at 46% off.
500GB Iomega StorCenter NAS now £85 - save £50
External hard disks are a simple and cheap way to store documents, photos, videos and backup files from your computer, but if you have more than one PC they're not terribly convenient. The solution is a Network Attached Storage, or NAS, device - stick this on your home network and you can use it to share files between every computer in the house.
Normally NAS hard disks are considerably more expensive than standard ones, but today we've found a bargain: a 500GB Iomega StorCenter NAS that normally sells for between £130 and £150, now going for just £85 with free delivery. Click the jump to find out where.
To pick up this super-cheap storage, head over to Play.com here.
Fridges, TVs, Laptops £5 this Monday - if you're quick
We're used to seeing some pretty bold claims from retailers, but BuyItDirect might take the prize for the most ambitious promotion of the year: it claims to be giving away over £50,000 worth of products this Monday, with buyers paying just under a fiver for postage.
The list of products includes Smeg fridges worth over £1,000, Miele washing machines worth almost £500, Sony LCD TVs worth around £300 and Acer Aspire notebooks worth £518 each. The less ambitious might pick up a toaster (around £40), laptop bag (£22) or webcam (£20). Given that postage for each costs £4.95 we're not sure that the Belkin Keyboard extender (worth £4.97) is such a great buy, but there you go.
We checked how many of each item will be available to give away and the company told us it had 12 fridges, 7 washing machines and 23 Acer laptops, amongst others. Click the jump to find out how to get one of them for just under a fiver.
So how does the promotion work? First, you need to pre-register at the link below. BuyItDirect then says it will email you a promotional code before the giveaway starts.
Next, you'll have to get up at 1am on Bank Holiday Monday. Or, we suppose, just stay awake. Either way, the givaway starts at 1am and we don't imagine the goods will be around long.
Once the givaway starts, you can pick the item you want. Enter the promotional code and the price will drop to zero. You pay £4.95 for postage, and the item will be with you in a few days.
Of course, you're likely to face competition from a few other thousand bargain hunters vying for the same stock, but it might be worth a try nonetheless. Let us know how you get on in the comments.
The Great Giveaway registration page can be found here.
Belkin Wireless ADSL Router just £20
If you have an ADSL broadband internet connection then the best way to make the most of it is with a wireless modem router. Plug this into your phone line and you'll be able to connect all your PCs, games consoles and other devices to the internet wirelessly. Better yet, at the moment you can pick up a Belkin ADSL Modem/Router for just £20.
The snappily-named F5D7632-4 creates an 802.11g wireless network, works with ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ broadband and includes a built-in firewall. This device normally costs around £50, but you can pick one up today, brand new, for just £20 - click the jump to find out how.
Morgan Computers is currently selling plain-boxed European models of this router via its online store. You might not get a user manual or other documents, but you will get the all important UK power adapter - not bad at less than half price.
Click here for details.
