After weeks of hyping today as "bigger than black Friday", Amazon seems to have dropped the ball in a major way. Where are the deals on items you actually want to purchase? Did anyone find anything good?
I've used older 256GB crucial SSD's, and they're fast, but that laptop eventually developed stability problems. After I stopped using that laptop, I found info on the TRIM problems seen in some SSD's. This is a long but excellent article from Adam Surak at Algolia.
I saw that deal, but I'm wary of buying crucial ssds as every single one I've bought has failed on me within 18 months. As far as SSDs go, I thought the advice was to stick with Intel: is this still true?
The "lightning deals" seem to be either uninteresting, or already 100% claimed. (Though the day's not over, and they do seem to be adding new items periodically.) Has anyone built an app to watch upcoming lightning deals and snap them up at superhuman speed?
Amazon hasn't dropped the ball at all. In fact, this has been a huge success for them. This was entirely a marketing ploy, and now everyone is talking about it.
I haven't found anything I wanted. I mean there are great deals, but nothing I am interested in. To be fair I am only really interested in buying cheap books.
Try abebooks.com. I've bought quite a lot of cheap books there, both text books (often of the "don't sell anywhere but India" variety), and used fiction that I can't find anywhere.
They're now an Amazon property, but they're still cheap and convenient.
I didn't see anything that I don't see on woot or other deal sites on a daily basis. When I last looked one of the "front page" items on the lightning deals was a lanyard, which I think says a lot.
I picked up a pair of Bose SoundTrue On Ear headphones. I'd been stalking them for a while but they've been priced at £129.95 for months. I ordered them yesterday for little over £70. Very happy!
I picked up a kindle fire hd 7" tablet for my daughter. I let her have a little time watching learning videos on youtube but using a macbook pro for it is overkill
not a thing, i missed out on the one g watch urbane they had in and then found it cheaper elsewhere anyway other than that there werent that many great deals to be had
[+] [-] danso|10 years ago|reply
I haven't really shopped for SSDs before but I need to upgrade my 4 year old MBP. It looks to be about $20 cheaper than what's on Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
[+] [-] jcr|10 years ago|reply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723066
I'm not sure if the "trim list" link in the article (libdata-core.c) is current or not, but it's worth reading:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e64f638483a21105c7ce3...
Unfortunately, the product name "CT512MX100SSD1" in your Amazon may not match what the device actually reports to the OS.
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[+] [-] medmunds|10 years ago|reply
BTW, there's also a section of 30%-off items—mostly clothes and luggage—that doesn't seem to have the "lightning" quantity limits. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=pin15_us_gw_d_p3_ld_softlines?_e...
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They're now an Amazon property, but they're still cheap and convenient.
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I probably would have grabbed a paperwhite if they'd reduced it with the cheap kindle.
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Yeah, they really dropped the ball on this.