Posts Tagged “Shell”

hard_drive First up, we have this one terabyte hard drive wrapped in a protective silicon shell. The shell is removable for installation, and provides a attractive protection when you’re storing it. They’re stackable, too! This week’s crazy sale price is $109.99. That, my friends, is what I like to call a smokin deal. I paid $60 for an 80GB hard drive a few years back. Okay, it was several years ago.

Now, you may not think there’s much to get excited about here.. 1TB storage, big whoop, right? Well, my aging PC has two hard drives. When they join forces, I have a whopping 120GB of storage- about one tenth the capacity of this terabyte hard drive. Ready for the sucky part? The smaller drive is 40GB, and since it’s the newer one, that’s where my OS goes. Because that’s where windows is installed, that’s where every program I install wants to be. I’ve been down to 5GB of storage on this drive in the past.

espresso_machine Next up is this professional Espresso machine. The price is $145.90 after shipping. If you’ve never shopped for an espresso machine, you’d You’d think that was a crazy price for a coffee machine. Let me tell you, this is probably as cheap as you want to go for a real pump espresso machine, and I would totally buy it if I had the dough because it is the best deal I’ve ever seen on a real espresso machine. My neighbor paid a thousand bucks for his machine. There’s more… I bought one of those cheap steam espresso makers, and I can tell you from experience that they simply don’t do the job. First things first, to make proper espresso, you have to have a certain temperature of water at a certain pressure. Steam just doesn’t cut it in this department. Second, my cheap steam espresso machine makes the espresso taste like metal. That’s no good. The lesson is, you just can’t buy a cheap espresso machine and expect fantastic results.

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