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HP LaserJet rebate blowout at Staples, July 8 - July 14

Staples is offering large Easy Rebates on a number of HP laser printers and all-in-one's useful in law offices.  For example, the LaserJet 1018 personal laser, nice for your office desktop or home office, is just $65 after a $65 Easy Rebate. 

If you want a color laser printer for the price of a monochrome laser, consider the HP LaserJet 1600.  It is half price at $150 after a $150 Easy Rebate.

Or go upscale with color and get a high-speed networkable color laser for half price.  The LaserJet 3600n is only $350 after a $350 Easy Rebate.

Get a great workhorse high-speed monochrome laser for $600 after a $300 Easy Rebate.  The networkable LaserJet P3005DN has duplex printing and can churn out the pages at up to 35 per minute.  This could be the primary laser printer for a small law firm.     

It is worth mentioning that a Staples Easy Rebate are very easy to claim.  Just log onto the Staple's Easy Rebate web site, create a free account (if you don't already have one), then enter a couple of numbers from your receipt.  There is nothing to clip and mail.  Within a few weeks, you will receive your rebate check. 

Great deal on a cordless notebook mouse

Office Depot has the very nice Microsoft cordless notebook mouse for only $8.99 after instant savings.  This is the mouse I've been using with my notebook PC for the last year and it works great.  Very long battery life on a single AA cell. 

Cheap notebook PC - give portable computing a try at little risk

If you don't have a notebook PC because you didn't want to make a multi-thousand dollar investment in something you weren't sure you would use, your excuses just evaporated.  Now you can buy a decent notebook PC for the price of a high-end PDA.  Buy.com has the IBM ThinkPad T60 (refurbished) for $399.99 with free shipping.  This is not a state-of-the-art machine, but it is a highly-regarded ThinkPad with enough power to do nearly everything a mobile lawyer needs to do. 

Huge SD Flash Memory Card for $30

If you have a smart phone or other PDA and want to carry many files and/or programs on it, you need a Secure Digital (SD) card to insert into the expansion slot of your device (such as a Treo).  Buy.com has a huge 4 GB SD card on sale for just $29.95

Huge monitor at small price

Office Depot has through May 19 an Acer 22" wide-screen LCD monitor for only $199 after a $70 mail-in rebate.  It is model AL-2216Wbd.

Tablet PC bargain

If you ever wanted to try a tablet PC without breaking the bank, here is your chance.  For only a bit more than a high-end PDA, you can get a refurbished Toshiba M200 tablet PC.  This isn't the fastest hardware in the world, but with a 1.5 GHZ Pentium M (Centrino) and 512 MB of RAM along with the Windows Tablet PC operating system, it cab run nearly any software a busy lawyer needs to run.  Also, the Tablet PC operating system, unlike Windows XP Home, can join a Windows domain (business network).  This tablet PC is just $499.95 at ComputerGeeks.com.   

Dirt cheap 19" LCD Monitor

At Staples, they are offering an Optiquest by Viewsonic 19" LCD flat panel monitor for only $169.98 after a $35 Easy Rebate.   The catch is that the rebate ends today, July 29, 2006.  Don't miss this one!