$300? How did it go from $200 back in CES 2007 to $300 now with no built in wifi or external HD? Am I missing something here?
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Best Buy has it for pre-order at $250. I placed my order this morning. I had heard $250 for the SlingCatcher and $400 for the Slingbox Pro-HD back at CES 2008. Then both were announced recently to be $300. Hopefully BB honors my pre-order at $250, but even at $300 I'll take it. For quality purposes I am using cat-6 cable anyway and wouldn't want Wi-Fi.EDIT - as of earlier this week, BB increased the pre-order price to $300. I have yet to receive any notice of a price change on my order, so hopefully you jumped on it early like I did and saved yourself $50 (assuming that BB still honors my preorder price) Best Buy has it for pre-order at $250. I placed my order this morning. I had heard $250 for the SlingCatcher and $400 for the Slingbox Pro-HD back at CES 2008. Then both were announced recently to be $300. Hopefully BB honors my pre-order at $250, but even at $300 I'll take it. For quality purposes I am using cat-6 cable anyway and wouldn't want Wi-Fi.EDIT - as of earlier this week, BB increased the pre-order price to $300. I have yet to receive any notice of a price change on my order, so hopefully you jumped on it early like I did and saved yourself $50 (assuming that BB still... » Read More Best Buy has it for pre-order at $250. I placed my order this morning. I had heard $250 for the SlingCatcher and $400 for the Slingbox Pro-HD back at CES 2008. Then both were announced recently to be $300. Hopefully BB honors my pre-order at $250, but even at $300 I'll take it. For quality purposes I am using cat-6 cable anyway and wouldn't want Wi-Fi.EDIT - as of earlier this week, BB increased the pre-order price to $300. I have yet to receive any notice of a price change on my order, so hopefully you jumped on it early like I did and saved yourself $50 (assuming that BB still honors my preorder price) « Show Less
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I´m away , but I know that I already received it back in the US. I´m extremely curious to see how it works. I will take it to Spain (where I moved). Has anyone actually seen in it in action? I will rely on this for all my TV viewing. I´m keeping my fingers crossed that has a good quality picture.
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The real question is how it went up to $500 at present (June 2014)!! Now that's a rip-off. Does a little less than a $35 Chromecast at 15x the price. Chromecast is due to get Sling support shortly.
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By "HD", I'm assuming you mean "hard drive" and not "high definition".Does this thing output 1080/720 if it receives such a signal from a Slingbox HD/Pro?
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It should. It has a HDMI connection 1080ihttp://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher-tech-specs
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I don't know but $300 is a ripoff. As you say, no wifi or HD means this should be $150 in my opinion. Its a freakin' accessory and not a Slingbox. Bad move Sling.
180017
They removed the prices soon after I posted my warning that first day. ;) It was $549. The XP version is *supposed* to be $499 with a 6 cell battery according to the MSI press release. As for the battery - there are many reports of 6 cell battery shortages that may affect the first shipments of Winds. We don't know yet for sure. But the first shipments of Win XP Winds may only have 3 cells. If true, the price should be LOWERED to reflect the smaller battery. Not raised to fleece impatient buyers.
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Now it's $149, which is around the right price. Hopefully it keeps dropping. I'm wanting to get a 4TB soon.
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Yeah. It was being sold by Office Depot. They even had it for $85 for a bit. I was going to buy as well. Too bad. Now I'll save that money for when the next gen systems come out. If you go to Office Depot you can still get it for $99.99 but says Temporarily Out of Stock :(
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Yes....$99 on Amazon!!!!!http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056UOUC8/ref=s9_simh_se_p23_d0_g23_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf;_rd_s=auto-no-results-center-1&pf;_rd_r=046E6J0JQM763RV5WY5M&pf;_rd_t=301&pf;_rd_p=1263465782&pf;_rd_i=%2499%20on%20Amazon!!!!!%20FB454UT%20Smartbuy%20TouchPad%20QUALCOMM%20Snapdragon%20APQ8060%201.2%20GHz%20802.11%20a%2Fb%2Fg%2Fn%20Wireless%209.7%22%20IPS%20TFT%201GB%20RAM%2016GBGrab it now!!! Going fast!!!Wow.....All gone in less than an hour!!!!
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I didn't realize the SSD was user upgradeable? In any case, I ended up ordering from Adorama for $1029 (free ship). Now I just have to patiently wait...
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With the same spec on Apple store for the model ME089LL/A, it is $2949.00 (3.4GHz, 32GB, 3TB Fusion). Don't how this listing comes up with that high price, may be it is late 2012 model, the price comes from that time frame.
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its this or that asus rt-n56u.. if only this is less expensive. w/out a doubt would get this, but it cost 189 here in canada while you can this as low as 119 across the border..sigh this sucks!
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I came here from Uncrate.com who is reporting it only costs $650 with WIRED.com saying it's $600, but it's still selling here for $900. Either price point is absurd in my opinion, and I'm just as amazed as you are people are buying it at such a high cost.
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The version we got was not. But for about 35 or 40 dollars you can buy a good wireless dongle at Wal-mart or here on Amazon. It is a really great machine otherwise once you get used to Windows 8. all it took for my son to gang it into a decent gaming machine was a mid-grade graphics card he was good to go.
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but there are netbooks for under 200. and they do so much more. Chromebook at over 300 does seem odd.
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i paid 2100 for mine from Electronics Expo. The price has actually gone up in the last 2 months. Just keep checking Amazon and you can find it for 2097.00 from Electronics Expo. I got mine last week but I spent about 2 weeks checking online 3-4 times a day until i got the right price. It may be a while before it drops below 2000! Good Luck
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When I bought mine about three months ago I believe there was no power supply in the box? I was not happy given the expense of the HD and then this item. So I bought the power supply. It was either missing the power supply or the Thunderbolt cord. Inspite of feeling nickel and dimed to death when the entire pkg came together Shazam incredible download speed!
119185
I can't believe the current price! I bought this unit about three years ago for $100 and now the price has more than tripled? What gives, Amazon?
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Just ordered mine today (6/15), sure wish there was SOME ETA as my old HP laptop is on the fritz. I can't believe the deal on this thing, almost $1000.00 off the HP price. I wonder if the price has something to do with the lack of ETA? Anyways, here's to hoping there will be some ETA soon. PS: I did call Amazon before I ordered, they had no ETA =(
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I only used the wifi with the 9800hd SE! it works flawslesly, I suggest sell this one or buy the se which only cost $156.99 complete.
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I haven't even tested the battery life yet (I've only had it plugged in) but the rest of the system is pretty awesome. Sorry...... I am still upset that they dropped the price by 300.00 a month after I bought it!