In the market for a new Laptop, Desktop or Tablet? Of course you are. So why don’t you pick up a printer for $70 off at Best Buy Canada?

•  Click here to shop for computers & tablets @ BestBuy.ca
• Click here for details on the $70 off printer deal @ BestBuy.ca

As far as I can tell, you can pick any computer or tablet and get this deal. There are two printers available with this deal:

• HP Photosmart Wireless All-In-One Inkjet Printer (PS6520) - Was $149.99 now $79.99
• Canon PIXMA Wireless All-In-One Inkjet Printer (MG3220) - Was $89.99 now $19.99

I think the HP is clearly the better printer here but Canon makes good stuff too. There was a similar PIXMA printer floating around recently that got some bad reviews but it looks like this one is getting better reviews. Keep in mind though that it is a bargain priced “all-in-one” so if you’re planning on printing pictures or high quality graphics, this isn’t the printer for you. The HP printer is probably your best bet for that kind of stuff as it is specifically a photo printer. Shipping is FREE!

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A great sale from Amazon Canada and Asus this week. You get a great tablet at a great price! $50 savings on the tablet by itself of the tablet and keyboard/battery dock.

• Click here to get $50 off your new Asus Transformer w/ optional dock @ Amazon.ca

I owned the original Asus Transformer, the TF101, and the dock and it was quite literally one of the best products I’d ever used. I used it instead of a laptop for well over a year. Maybe over two years. I only sold it because I got a laptop but now I dearly miss my tablet.

If you’re at all interested in a tablet, I highly suggest this one. The tablet is great but the keyboard dock really makes it awesome. The dock has a keyboard and mouse that make it infinitely more useful for typing. I find the mouse pad less useful on a touch screen device but it’s there if you want it. I found on a few games it was easier to mouse than touch. Actually, that’s a good point. The arrow keys on the keyboard map properly to the controls on some games so those annoying on-screen controls, in some cases, go away.

The battery is the other aspect of the dock. It gives insane battery life. I’m talking like 16 hours on one charge. Now of course if you’re streaming HD video that 16 hour life is going to be far less but I could routinely go two days, with a fair amount of Netflix watching, on one charge. This really is one of the best mobile computing devices you can get today and the price is awesome.

(Expires: 18th March 2013)

For a limited time, Chapters Indigo Canada has 30% off Buzztronics, like boogie boards, pop phones and headphones.

• Click here to shop @ Chapters Canada

These Boogie Board Tablets are really cool. It is a paperless alternative to writing with this ultra thin tablet that you can use as a memo pad, sticky note, dry erase board or more. The battery never needs replacing and it is easy to fit in a purse or backpack. Very durable so kids, as well as adults can use it. Now only $27.99, regularly $39.99. Get it in a variety of great colours. Check out all the great reviews too.

I love these Safe Soundz Kids Headphones. Designed to protect little ears from hearing loss with volume control, I wish they had these when I was a kid and used to blast the music as loud as possible. Now only $10.49, regularly $14.99.

We make tons of improvements to the look and quality of our messaging devices, only to go back to the old school way. These Native Union Retro Pop Handsets are high quality speaker/microphones to be used with all mobile phones. You need the correct adaptors (sold separately) but you can use it for all types of calls including Skype. Now only $27.99, regularly $39.99. Available in a number of great colours.

Shipping is free on orders over $25.

Check out the Bargainmoose coupon forum for a coupon to get an additional $5 off your order for Chapters Canada.

Amazon Canada is bringing the discounts on some great accessories by Targus!

• Click here to shop for Targus accessories @ Amazon.ca

There are eleven items on sale here. These are some of the better deals:

• Targus TCG717 17-Inch CityGear Rolling Travel Laptop Case - Was $129.99 – Save $30 – Now $99.99
• Vuscape for iPad Mini version, Red - Was $39.99 – Save $10.97 – Now $29.02
• Targus AKP11US Wireless Numeric Keypad - Was $31.99 – Save $7 – Now $24.99

The Source Canada is sporting a Tablet Event with up to 40% off tablets, tablet accessories, and tablet bundles.

• Click here to shop @ The Source Canada

My mother absolutely loves her Blackberry Playbook and they are very affordable if you are looking for a tablet. Get one bundled with a cover as well! Here are some of the Blackberry Playbooks currently bundled – to find, just search for the call numbers.

• 1806102 32GB Blackberry Playbook + Casemate Pink/Grey Case – $159.99
• 1776102 32GB Blackberry Playbook + Casemate Black/Grey Case – $159.99
• 2146102 32GB Blackberry Playbook + Incipico Universal 7″ Tablet Essentials Kit – $179.99

If the Blackberry Playbook is not your thing, there are other tablets on sale. Check out these deals:

• 8000196 ACER ICONIA A500 TABLET 10.1-INCH 16GB Was $399.99 | Now $249.99
• 8003909 SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 2 10.1 WIFI 16GB Was $349.99 | Now $299.99

There are many many other bundles, tables, and accessories to check out. Just visit The Source’s website.

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Can’t decide between an ultrabook and a tablet? Costco Canada and Lenovo Canada have you covered with this sweet deal!

•  Click here to buy your Lenovo Yoga 11 @ Costco.ca

The price on Lenovo’s website is $750 so you’re saving about $250 on this one. It’s a very good deal that is only made better by FREE shipping from Costco Canada.

Here are some of the relevant specs on the Yoga 11: 

• 1.4 GHz Quad Code nVidia Tegra 3 processor
• 2 GB DDR3L RAM
• 64GB SSD
• 11.6″ LED Screen
• Integrated 720p HD Webcam
• 2 USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI
• 2-in 1 card Reader (SD/MMC)

This is one of the best deals I’ve seen out there for a product like this. You get a full touch screen Windows RT (Windows 8 for tablets, basically) tablet with a full keyboard. The reason they call this line of devices “Yoga” is because it has a hinge that allows it to flip into different configurations. You can use it like a laptop or you can bend the keyboard to lay flat behind the screen to it can be used as a traditional tablet. There are two “in between” positions, one called “tent mode” and the other called “stand mode.” You can likely figure out what those look like but if you can’t just do a Google Image Search for Yoga 11.

If you don’t have a tablet, this is the time to get one. Amazon Canada is offering some really, really good deals on Le Pan Android tablets for an unspecified length of time. Get one now!!

These are the two tablets available. Shipping is free within Canada, of course.

• Le Pan II 9.7″ 1.2GHz Dual Core Tablet w/ Android 4.0.4 - Was $279 – Save $120 – Now $159
• Le Pan i 9.7″ 1GHz Tablet w/ Android 2.2 - Was $199.99 – Save $104.99 – Now $95

I don’t think that, in all the time I’ve been interested in technology, I’ve ever seen the price barrier to entry on a product drop this quickly. I mean, I remember when laptops were an absolute luxury item. You couldn’t get one for under $2000. It took years for them to drop this much. Smartphones are just getting to the point where you can pick one up with the money you find in your couch cushions. Tablets have gone from moderately priced to dirt cheap in an incredibly short amount of time. You are going to sacrifice some quality (Le Pan is no Samsung) but not that much, considering the prices.

The Le Pan I is low enough in price that you can pick one up for everyone in the family for the price of a single higher end device. You could even get it as an eReader and put the eBook Reader Apps on from all the popular stores like Kindle, Kobo and Sony. You pay almost the same price as a traditional eReader but you get an Android tablet too.

I should mention that the extra $60 for the Le Pan II is very much worth it. I know some people who have an iPad and iPhone and would like to try Android but don’t want to drop $400 for a good tablet. The Le Pan II is a great opportunity to experience a newer flavour of Android without having to break the bank or settle for an older version of Android like the Le Pan I has.

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Deal Ticker Canada has a sale for a 4GB Android 4.0, 7 inch Tablet for only $75, including taxes and shipping.  You may buy as many vouchers as you wish, personal and as gifts, and they do not expire.  Your order is shipped automatically once you purchase this deal, no need for redemption. This cannot be combined with other offers or promotions.  This deal ends on January 25^th 2013,

• Click here for Dealticker.com (you’ll need to scroll down the page a bit to find it)
  

What a great gift for yourself, after all the giving to friends and family.  This Android tablet has 512mb ram, a screen resolution of 800px X 480px, up to 32GB microSD slot, a G-sensor, is 5 point multi-touch, 1080p video playback, Wi-fi ready and comes with USB cable and charger.

This certainly changes the way you could work or even enjoy your computing. You can download apps, browse the web, check your Facebook or email, play games, take photos and much more.  The great thing about this is the mobility of having a small tablet, rather then lugging that heavy laptop around.

Shipping: Included.

(Expiry: 25^th January 2013)

Apple products rarely go on sale. Especially not brand new ones. So Staples is really showing off by offering the iPad 3, the iPad 2, and Apple computers for a discount!

• Click here to shop @ Staples Canada

So you want some sale Apple goodies?  Sure these aren’t the most breathtaking discounts, but because this is so rare – it is blog worthy!

• Save $30 – Apple iPad 3 – 16 GB - Now $469
• Save $40 – Apple iPad 3 – 32 GB – Now $559
• Save $50 – Apple iPad 3 – 64 GB – Now $649

You can also pick up an iPad 2 – 16 GB for only $369! You save $30 on Apple’s price.

As for computers, there are two deals:

• Save $150 - 13-inch MacBook Air – Now $1049
• Save $150 - 13-inch MacBook Pro – Now $1049

I double checked all of the base prices with Apple.ca, and they all match. So the savings is truly a savings: you cannot get it at Apple for any cheaper. The discounts are off of Apple’s prices.

Receive free shipping on all orders of $50 or more.

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My wife is awesome. Just wanted to get that out in the open right off the bat. Because she is awesome, she has an Android tablet and plays games on it. She hates paying for apps so she has downloaded TONS of free apps. These are her favorites and you can have them all for free!

• Click here to check out all the Android apps available @ Google Play Store

Garfield’s Diner

As I mentioned, my wife hates paying for apps. This app though, has shown up twice on my credit card bill for in-game purchases. This means that she likes it so much that she decided to spend money on making it better. The game itself basically consists of you running Irma’s diner while she is on vacation. Customers come in and you have to serve them quickly. As the game progresses you get more customers and you need to do everything faster.

Dragon, Fly! Free

I actually introduced this game to my wife. She usually plays with her tablet while she’s doing something else so she doesn’t always want a super involving game like Garfield’s Diner. Dragon Fly is just about the easiest game out there. You quite literally only need one finger to play. You are a baby dragon who has escaped from its mother. Your dragon, who is apparently greased, slides along the hilly landscape and launches itself off of hill tops to soar through the sky. When you start to descend again, you press on the screen to make your dragon fall faster. The aim is to hit a downward slope at the proper time to launch your dragon off the hill on the other side of the valley. The mama dragon is chasing you so if you mess up too much, she catches you.

The Sims Free Play

The Sims is one that I have not played, but I have played some of the Sims games on PC. The tablet version is the same idea, you are a person and you live out their life, but with one big addition. The addition is that it is heavily goal-oriented. In the PC version of The Sims you can live by yourself the whole game and do just fine. In this version, the whole point is to work towards goals. So you might have a goal (and I’m making these up) to get to a certain level of friendship with 5 people. You do that and you advance in the game. Another might be to get married. You do that and again, you advance.

Cooking Dash

Another one I’ve played! I didn’t tell my wife about this one but she was using my tablet and wanted a game to play, so I told her to search for “cooking mama” (a food cooking sim on the Nintendo Wii and DS) since it seemed like there would be a similar game on a touch device. Cooking Dash is the one she looked at first and she stuck with it. It isn’t the same as Cooking Mama, but rather a mix of Cooking Mama and Garfield’s Diner. You are a chef and people are lining up to get your food. You need to cook and serve it before they get upset and leave. This game is beyond addictive and you can easily lose yourself in it for long stretches of time because it’s so intense!

GameFly is doing some pretty cool stuff with this magazine and it’s completely free, so check it out! You have nothing to lose!

• Click here to check out GameQ @ GameFly

I am so sick and tired of cutting down trees, mashing them up, beating them down flat and printing stuff on them. No, it’s not because I’m an environmentalist, it’s because I’m tired of being a slave to Big Paper. Nuts to them with all this getting in my SUV, driving to Chapters, buying the magazine, bringing it back home and having my son tear out pages 6 through 14!

Why am I going to the content when the content should be coming to me? Sure, I can get it delivered, but then I need to go to the mailbox to get it and that, in some ways, is worse! You know what? For that matter, why am I using my eyes to put information into my brain? Because I’m a sucker, that’s why! Well, no more! I for one welcome the lazy gamer’s magazine, I welcome… GameQ!

Anything that ushers in the doom of traditional publishing is okay by me. The fact that this is a good magazine makes it even better! They have really embraced the rich media that a lot of print magazines are falling all over themselves to get right.

There are two issues out now. I’ve started into one of them between reading comics and writing on Bargainmoose and I’m very much digging it. Ever since GMR folded way, way back, I’ve been looking for a new read. This is the kind of writing I like to read.

(Expires: Whenever they stop publishing the magazine)

This is the number 1 bestselling tablet on Amazon right now and you don’t have to pay $349.99 to get it. Because bargainmoose loves you very, very much you can get it for $174.

• Get your Le Pan TC 970 9.7-Inch AndroidTablet @ Amazon RIGHT NOW!

I write about a lot of stuff here on this fantastic website. Some of it I know a lot about, some of it I know almost nothing about. Android tablets though, these things I know a huge amount about. I’ll get to that in a second but first here are the quick specs on the device. You can get a full run down on Amazon.

• Tablet with 9.7-inch Capacity display, support 720P video play
• Android 2.2 platform, and ultra-fast Wi-Fi connectivity
• ARM Cortex-A8 Core processor; support for Adobe Flash for viewing web sites, movies, games
• Front-facing 2-megapixel camera and microphone for video chats
• Micro SD expansion (up to 32GB), 2GB Micro SD card bundled
• Up to 6 hours of video playback/Wi-Fi web browsing
• Size (L/W/H): 9.29 X 7.44 X 0.48 inches
• Weight: 1.6 pounds

So this is a fantastic mid-range Android tablet. It is not for the power user but more for a casual user, which in all honesty, is most of the tablet buying public. I am essentially a broke hobo and I am STRONGLY considering buying one just to have it lying around the house. That’s how good of a deal this is. Usually tablets at this price are 7″ and have terrible specs. This one is very respectable and at $174 you really cant go wrong.

I mentioned earlier that I know Android tablets and I’ll let you know why. Last April (April 9th, to be exact) I left the house with my laptop and put it on top of the truck. I then proceeded to drive down my foolishly steep driveway, stop and watch my laptop case tumble off my car. The laptop was, as we say in the business, pooched. So I decided to do an experiment. I run another website and I started a series of articles on there to chronicle my attempt to run my entire digital life off of my Android smartphone. To make a long story short, I did it. The goal of this was to see if I should buy another laptop or if I should get an Android tablet instead. I got the tablet and have been using it for all my computing needs (with a little help from my wife’s laptop here and there) since then. So I’ll let you know right now that these tablets are beyond capable, especially if you add a hardware keyboard. This specific one might not replace a laptop but you can certainly use your laptop less once you have one of these.

As usual, since this is Amazon, anything over $25 has free shipping!

(Expires: 21st May 2012)

This is a really popular post over on the forums, and thought I would stick it on the blog. The iPad 2 has received a price reduction from the Apple Store: Now starting at $419 (was $519)!

• Click here to Shop the iPad 2 @ Apple Canada

If you are not the type of person who needs to have the latest model of everything, this is a great deal – $100 off. It comes with the standard warranty from Apple Canada that you can extend as well. The iPad 2 is a great improvement over the iPad 1. It has a camera (big difference) and even my husband sees that the screen on the iPad 2 is brighter and a better quality that the one on the iPad 1. I notice that it is a bit lighter and I really enjoy the magnetic cover so I can show off my fabulous Gelaskin on the back.

Thanks so much to Mooser Margie for posting this on the hot deals forum!

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The Source Canada has a huge sale on right now with their BlackBerry Playbooks and BlackBerry bundles.  Until 9th February 2012, save up to $400 on all BlackBerry Playbooks.

• Click her to shop at The Source Canada

• Shop all BlackBerry Playbooks and Bundles

Here are some highlights of this awesome deal:

• BlackBerry 32GB Playbook Was $599.99/ Now $249.99 (you save $350)
• BlackBerry 16GB Playbook Was $499.99/ Now $199.99 (you save $300)
• BlackBerry 32GB Playbook Bundle Was $699.98/ Now $319.98 (you save $380)

I did some price comparisons to some other stores and found the same Blackberry 32GB Playbook at Sears Canada on sale for $399.99. That is $80 more than the sale price at The Source Canada.  These Playbooks were very popular at Christmas time and were selling out fast.  I noticed that a few of the different playbook bundle deals were sold out already so if you are interested in this deal make sure you check it out sooner rather than later.

(Expiry: 9th February 2012)

Choose any Blackberry Playbook from Future Shop, all for the same price of $299.99. Save $400 off a 64GB Blackberry Playbook from Future Shop. This is one hot deal and it won’t last long before these are all taken!

• Click here to grab this deal

Regular $699.99, now $299.99, this is the lowest price ever on the 64GB Playbook. Here is a review:

Awesome tablet. Multimedia definitely best in terms of video and sound. Perfect size for transport ability… fits in my coat pocket but screen great size to see everything I want to see… especially with “four corner expansion” which is ridiculously smooth and quick. Connects to my old BB via bluetooth with no problem, will be better when I upgrade model with bridge. Multitasking best of all tablets. Most complaints are about apps but android apps available at a token price around $1. I own an android tablet (which I also love but is the larger screen version and not as portable). I was able to buy both tablets at less cost of an ipad. Yes, ipad is great but I got the most bang for the buck for what I was able to purchase. The world will eventually figure out that the BB playbook is the best tablet, especially in a business world.

Unlike the same deal at The Source, there is no limit as to how many you can purchase. Shipping is free on orders over $20.

Not sure why anyone would purchase a 16GB playbook at the same price as a 64GB!

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