Announced in October, Apple’s 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro carried a starting price of $1,700. Apple has now cut that to $1,500 and upgraded other MacBook models as well.
Deals & Shopping
Best Buy Knocks $200 Off MacBook Air
Between now and Saturday, you can get $200 off a MacBook Air from Best Buy. There are four models available.
Get a 12-Month Xbox Live Gold Membership for $35
Buy.com is selling a 12-month membership card to Xbox Live for $35 today — it’s normally $60.
Amazon Knocks $50 off 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD Tablets, Best Buy Knocks $50 off iPhone 5 and 4S
It’s a double deal Monday, with Amazon lopping $50 off each of its large-format Kindle HD tablets and Best Buy trimming iPhone prices by $50 as well.
eBay Now: The Promise and Pitfalls of Same-Day Delivery
The e-commerce behemoth’s experimental service aims to deliver an array of products in about an hour — which is even harder than it sounds.
Sorry, Microsoft, I’m Not Buying Your Attack on Google Shopping — Here’s Why
Microsoft’s campaign against Google Shopping leaves me cold — and Bing Shopping isn’t so impressive.
From Now On, Every Day Is Cyber Monday
When Cyber Monday-esque deals of 40% and 50% off sitewide start appearing before Thanksgiving and become commonplace on Black Friday, is there much point to Cyber Monday itself?
Watch Out, Here Come the Wii U Vultures (Is Anyone Not Sold Out of the Wii U?)
It looks like the Wii U may be sold out, which means it’s time to put on black and go into mourning. Gnash your teeth. Wail. Shrug if you couldn’t care less. Or pay embarrassing amounts of money to have one, day one.
PayPal Ups Ante in Holiday Season Price-Matching Wars
The battle for holiday shopper dollars continues with the launch of the most impressive-sounding price-matching policy offered yet. As it turns out, the policy isn’t being offered by a retailer, but the payment processor PayPal.
Why Some 7-inch Tablets Will Eventually Be Given Away Free
About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon’s business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was looking at selling the …
Google Discounting Popular Apps to 25 Cents over the Next Five Days
Google Play – formerly known as the Android Market — has passed 25 billion app downloads. A large majority of those were from me, I admit. I get so frustrated playing Angry Birds that I uninstall it and swear I’ll never play …
Kickstarter Aims to Make Gadgets Less of a Gamble
For the new dead-tree issue of TIME that comes out today, I had fun profiling Kickstarter, the highest-profile site enabling crowdfunding of creative projects. (Subscribers can read the article here.) I write about some of the …
