Black Friday Deals: Dell 20″ Desktop for $499 at Staples
‘Black Friday’ (the Friday after Thanksgiving) is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. If standing on line to get incredible deals is your thing, we here at Observer Publishing want to help you find the right deals for you to wake up early for.
The staples circular has leaked and there’s 2 strong deals that will be available that day:
Dell Desktop PC w/AMD Athlon X2 215 Processor, 4GB RAM, 640GB Hard Drive, 20-inch LCD Monitor – $499.98 (save $100)
Dell Studio 15.6″ Laptop w/Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive – $599.98 (save $150)
Posted by Admin Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Black Friday is coming!
The Black Friday flyers are slowly trickling out and we here at Observer Publishing will keep you updated on the best deals out in shoppingland.
Stay tuned, intrepid Observers!
Posted by Admin Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
Microsoft Selling PCs Directly For First Time
Microsoft has always had a token web e-commerce presence, but on the heels of the announcement of Microsoft’s first ‘brick and mortar’ retail store, they now are also selling PC’s online.
Named curiously enough “Microsoft Store” (very ingenious!), the site offers PCs from Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo and Sony. Looking at the products offered, these aren’t just your run of the mill systems. Instead, they are (as the PC industry would say) “Hero SKUs” = interesting and different products that show off cutting edge features. In this case, these are some of the best netbooks, notebooks and “all-in-one” desktops found on the market today.
Posted by Admin Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
AT&T to Offer Dell Smartphone, Newspaper Reports
The Wall Street Journal reported today that AT&T will offer Dell’s smartphone based on the Google Android
operating system as soon as 2010. The prototype was shown at an event in China earlier this year.
Posted by Admin Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
4 years and $285M later, Dell shuts NC factory
As predicted on the DellObserver just one month ago, Dell has announced that it will close its Winston-

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Salem desktop computer factory and eliminating 905 jobs
Back in 2005, the state of North Carolina gained national attention by offering Dell incentives totaling $285 million dollars to bring the facility to the state. A report in 2007 by The North Carolina Budget and Tax Center analyzed the incentive deal and found “(lawmakers) were likely far too optimistic about the computer maker’s long-term impact on the local economy”.
Reuters reports that the closure will be done quickly with the facility completely shut by January, 2010.
Posted by Admin Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Dell Deals of the Day: $209 Xbox + Monitor Sale
a PLETHORA of deals from our friends at Dell.com today!
• Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Gaming Console for $204.99 plus free shipping (normally $299 – use coupon codes 6FWJ247J1P44CK and 232F46?QB982DR and this form).
• 24″ Dell S2409w Widescreen LCD Monitor for $199 plus free shipping (normally $279).
• 23″ Dell ST2310 Widescreen LCD Monitor for $169 plus free shipping (normally $229).
• 20″ Dell S2009W Widescreen LCD Monitor for $109 plus free shipping (normally $149).
Posted by Admin Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
