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In the market for a big discount on an ultrabook or tablet? If you don’t mind buying refurbished models, today might be your day.
Woot is running a sale on Asus Zenbook thin and light laptops with models starting at just $500 (although I’d recommend checking out some of the higher-priced Zenbooks like this $650 model with a Haswell processor and a full HD display).
Meanwhile if you want an Amazon tablet and don’t have your heart set on one of the new models announced this week, the retailer is selling a number of older, refurbished models at low prices.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Ultrabooks
- Refurbished Asus Zenbook ultrabooks for $500 and up – Woot
- Refurb Sony Vaio Pro 11.6″ ultrabook w/Core i5 Haswell for $675 – NeweggFlash
- Refurb Sony Vaio Flip 13″ touchscreen ultrabook for $630 – A4C
Tablets
- Refurb Google Nexus 7 (2012) w/32GB for $105 – A4C (via eBay)
- Refurb samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5″ tablet for $400 – Quick Ship Electronics (via eBay)
- Refurb Amazon Kindle Fire HD (previous gen) for $119 and up – Amazon
- Refurb Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ for $199 – Amazon
- Amazon Fire TV + Kindle Fire HDX 7 tablet bundle for $279 –
Other
- Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 mini-desktop w/Celeron 1017UÂ for $205 – Lenovo (coupon:Â Q190CLEARANCE)
- Sony Z Ultra Google Play Edition for $270Â – ExpansysÂ
- Roku 1 streaming media player for $35 – Best Buy
- Open Box Google Chromecast for $33 after rebate –Â Blinq
- GameStick Android video game stick + wireless controller for $20 – GameStop
- Buffalo compact portable Blu-ray writer for $65 – Woot
- Name your price for dozens of DRM-free digital comics from Valiant – Humble Bundle
You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.
I got the Buffalo BDXL writer from Amazon a while back and it’s a very good, compact design. Cables are a little short though so if your laptop cannot power this by one USB and the other port is on the opposite side, you are out of luck. FWIW my Venue 11 Pro’s lone USB port was enough to power this.
It includes Cyberlink Software (albeit old) that can play BD on Windows 8 (no-go on Bay-Trail Atom though). For $65 this is a great price if you are in the hunt for a BD player/burner.