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The Asus X200CA is a portable notebook with a touchscreen display and Windows 8.1 software. There are several different versions with different processors, but the laptop normally sells for around $300 or less.
Right now you can score some great deals on this little laptop. Adorama has a Pentium model for $280, and Woot is selling a refurbished version with a Celeron chip for $220.
Neither version has a cutting-edge processor, but those are Chromebook-like prices for Windows notebooks with 4GB of RAM, 500GB of storage, touchscreens, and Windows.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Notebooks and tablets
- Asus X200CA 11.6″ touchscreen notebook w/Pentium 2117U for $280 – Adorama (via eBay)
- Refurb Asus X200CA 11.6″ notebook w/Celeron 1007U for $220 – Woot
- Apple MacBook Air for $800 and up – Best Buy
- Refurb MacBook Air w/Sandy Bridge for $700 – 1Sale
- Refurb Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8 or 10 inch tablets for $150 and up – Woot
Storage
- Seagate 480GB SATA III 2.5″ SSD for $180 after rebate – TigerDirect (coupon: FPK131731)
- WD 2TB portable USB 3.0 hard drive for $90 – TigerDirect (coupon: EPE131467)
- Centon USB 3.0 flash drives for $15 and up (256GB for $95) – Woot
Other
- Asus Chromebox w/Celeron 2955U for $170 – Amazon
- Refurb Roku 3 for $62, Roku 2 for $40, or Roku 1 for $30 – Woot
- Sony Smartwatch 2 for $120 – Altatac (via eBay)
- Pay $3 or more for 6-9 Sci Fi eBooks – StoryBundle
You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.
I purchased a refurb Asus X200CA mentioned in an earlier Daily Deal and am having mixed feelings. while I like the unit itself, I’m disappointed that the formerly-routine process of creating restore disks – useful as a hedge against HD failure – is no longer routine. it seems the only option I have is to create a ‘recovery drive’ using a 16GB usb drive. Asus doesn’t provide disks (I’m still searching if there’s a purchase option) and it seems the only other option is to create a multi-GB restore image to be used in conjunction with a ‘rescue disk’