Special Offers – Week of November 23rd

Good afternoon all, hopefully everyone’s had a good weekend and we’re all reasonably well recovered from last week, which was a bit of a nightmare. Anyway, for those of you who don’t read the blog too often, we tend to post our special offers for the week on a Monday afternoon, since it means they’re up for the maximum amount of time.

It gives people a chance to weigh up their options and consider whether or not they’d like to go for something while it’s on special. It’s best for all concerned really 🙂

This week, we’ve got special offers on a portable external drive, a graphics card and a digital photo frame (since nobody buys themselves a digital photo frame, it’s an excellent one to buy as a gift).

WD Passport Studio 320GB:

Western Digital’s Passport remains among the most popular USB-powered portable externals we stock, while it’s bigger brother, the Western Digital Elements, dominates the 1TB external range in a fairly similar fashion.

Click through to see our page for the WD Passport Studio 320GB 🙂

The 320GB Passport Studio is a little different though, in that it boasts Firewire support, which is nothing to be sneezed at. It does mean you’ll be paying a little more for the privilege, but the advantages are fairly plane; Firewire is that bit quicker than USB if you’re doing a big transfer.

While most notebooks (and since it’s a USB-powered external we’ll assume notebook users will be the greater portion of those interested) don’t boast their own Firewire ports, Mac users will likely already be fairly familiar with the standard. Moreover, it supports standard USB 2.0 connections as well, so if you’re an occasional Mac user it’s well worth looking into.

For those Mac users out there considering it, it’s also an ideal home for a Time Machine backup, especially considering the fact that it’s already silver, so it’ll blend in neatly with your existing hardware… which probably isn’t as important when you’re considering a backup as it is to me, but it’s a consideration 😉

All that aside, the WD Passport Studio 320GB is knocked down by 25% this week to €119. Not bad at all.

Komplett Storage Roundup:

Hey there all, hopefully the week has started off well for you guys. We’ve had a lot of people asking us about buying extra storage on Twitter over the past couple of days and what might best suit their needs for X or Y purpose. We figured it might be best to do up a quick post with some of our best selling external storage and the circumstances they’re best suited to.

It might seem simple, but you’d be surprised the number of people who feel that they really need to go for a full 1TB of external hard drive when they’d be far better suited with something USB powered. That brings us neatly to the first product we’re going to talk about 🙂

Western Digital My Passport 500GB:

Western Digital’s Passport is a pocket-sized external hard drive in the same sense as you might remember “pocket sized” dictionaries from school; it’s a bit bigger than an iPod, but something you can easily carry around with you.

Click through to see our page for the Western Digital My Passport Essential 🙂

The Passport is ideal for those who just want to grab something to store extra media to free up space on a machine’s drive. It’s portable enough that you can leave it in a bag and not worry about it until you find yourself sitting around with an hour or two to kill.

It’s also excellent an excellent device to have handy for those media migration moments where you absolutely must (for one reason or another) move all of your music from one PC to another. The fact that its USB powered is really the best thing to recommend it.

Western Digital’s My Passport Essential is €91 for 500GB of storage, which is a solid deal for a USB powered drive 🙂

Products at the PUP This Week

Good afternoon all. This is just a quick post to detail some of the stock we have available at our Dublin Pickup Point this week. As a general rule we stock one item per week at the PUP, generally they’re just some of the items we find people tend to add to orders as afterthoughts.

All this means is that if you’re collecting an order from our Pickup Point then you can grab the following at the PUP without having to order ahead.

Corsair Flash Voyager:

Corsair’s Voyager line is a range of durable USB thumb drives that manages to be both reliable and relatively cheap. This 8GB model will set you back €18.01, which isn’t a bad old deal. Moreover, being a combination of rugged and high capacity, it’s one of those things that’s just ideal to throw into a rucksack and not have to worry about, which makes it pretty much perfect for the “back to school” crowd… if you happen to be ordering now.

Click here for more details on the 8GB Flash Voyager.