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Black Friday is still weeks away, but that doesn’t mean that retailers like Office Depot aren’t trying to get a head start. With the current shortages caused by supply chain issues, it may not be a bad idea to do your holiday shopping a bit earlier. We’ve scoped out some of the best deals this week at Office Depot, like this Windows 11-ready 15-inch Asus VivoBook with an Intel Core i5, 16GB Memory and a 256GB SSD for only $500. This offer is only good until Friday, Oct. 16, or while supplies last.

See more money saving codes going on at Office Depot right now at CNET Coupon.

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Asus VivoBook 15 F513 i5 laptop: $500

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This Asus VivoBook comes equipped with a 15.6-inch LCD full HD (1920×1080-pixel) display, is powered by an Intel Core i5, has 16GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe SSD. This laptop comes with Windows 10 and will receive a free upgrade to Windows 11 when available. It usually sells for $750, but is just $500 through Friday, Oct. 16.

Also available:

Asus VivoBook 15 K513 Laptop, 15.6″ Screen, Intel Core i7: $620
Asus VivoBook 15 F512DA-DB34 Laptop, 15.6″ Screen, AMD Ryzen 3: $380

$500 at Office Depot

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Black Friday is still weeks away, but it’s also here with a vengeance — it’s the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of holiday sales. How do we know? Because it’s not just Best Buy and Walmart anymore. Everyone is getting in on the sales, including Office Depot. From now through Saturday, Nov. 7, or while supplies last, the retailer is having a sale on its entire inventory of Lenovo PCs and monitors.

There are about two dozen laptops, desktops and monitors in Office Depot’s sale, and you can browse the complete list of Office Depot sale items if you’re so inclined. But I’ve already taken a look and here are the most interesting deals you can get right now:

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Lenovo IdeaPad S340 i7 laptop: $570

You save $210

This Lenovo IdeaPad S340 comes equipped with a 15.6-inch IPS full HD (1920×1080-pixel) display, is powered by an Intel Core i7, and has 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. It usually sells for $780, but is just $570 through Saturday.

$570 at Office Depot

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Lenovo IdeaCentre 510A desktop PC: $680

You save $220

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre 510A desktop PC is powered by a 9th Gen Intel Core i7 3.0GHz processor with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for storage. It also has an increasingly rare DVD burner, as well as a seven-in-one media card reader. Usually priced at $900, you can get it for $680 through Saturday.

$680 at Office Depot

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Lenovo IdeaPad S340 i5 laptop: $470

You save $150

This Lenovo IdeaPad S340 is powered by an Intel Core i5, has 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. The 15.6-inch display is a full HD IPS screen, pushing 1920×1080 pixels. Usually priced at $620, you can get it for $470 through Saturday.

$470 at Office Depot

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We’re still a few weeks away from Prime Day — which officially starts on July 15 this year — but Amazon is already dropping prices all over the place. Right now, the company is offering its best-ever deal on Apple’s second-gen AirPods with the wireless charging case. It’s usually priced at $199 (£199, AU$319) but is currently going for $180.

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The big deal: The second-gen AirPods with the wireless charging case now cost $180.

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For context: The base model second-gen AirPods, which come with the regular Lightning-connector charging case, remain priced at $160.

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And: Amazon has a $10 discount on the standalone wireless charging case. Usually, priced at $80, it now costs $70.

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The second-gen AirPods feature a few minor but worthwhile improvements over the original, including always-on voice recognition and the long-awaited wireless charging case. Like the previous model, they’re a top-notch headset for making calls, indoors and out. Apple’s new H1 chip also allows for super-fast connections with all of your Apple devices, rock-solid wireless connectivity, and an hour more talk time.

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Amazon Prime Day kicks off on July 15 — but we’ve already spotted lots of deals. In recent weeks, we’ve seen discounts on a range of Amazon’s own devices including Kindles and e-readers, media streamers, Ring doorbells, security cameras and Echo smart speakers. This year’s Prime Day sale will run for 48 hours, the longest Prime Day sale ever, up from 36 hours in 2018.

This story was originally posted earlier, but the deal is still available.

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Bluetooth speakers have become totally commoditized, but if you want good sound quality and durability you need to still pay up. Except for today: Amazon is offering the awesome UE Wonderboom for just $50. This softball-sized Bluetooth speaker delivers great sound for its size, and it’s not only waterproof — it floats.

Normally $99, it’s been widely discounted for the past few weeks for $60 to $65. But $50 is the lowest price we’ve seen — though that discount is limited to the deep blue and midnight blue colors. Just don’t get this one if you need an aux-in — it’s wireless only. Read the CNET review of the UE Wonderboom.

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Prefer something with a bit more oomph? The Wonderboom’s sibling speakers aren’t a “deal of the day,” but they’ve been nicely discounted in recent weeks, too.

ue-boom-2-08 — The UE Boom 2.

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UE Boom 2, $99 at Amazon ($80 off): For years, the UE Boom and its sequel, the Boom 2, have been our go-to choice for wireless speaker sound quality — but that came at a premium $199 price (since reduced to $180). Now this waterproof wonder is up to $80 off in some color combinations. Read the CNET review of the UE Boom 2.

Get the Boom 2 for 44% off

26-ue-blast — The Blast is basically the Boom 2, but with Alexa support.

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UE Blast, $107 at Amazon ($73 off): The Blast is basically a Boom 2 that adds the Alexa voice assistant to the mix, with Wi-Fi capability in addition to standard Bluetooth. Yes, it only has a 3-star review on Amazon, but that’s probably because many of those reviews hit before the recent firmware update that added voice control for Spotify to the mix.

This speaker was $230 when it first debuted last year, but has since been marked down to $180 — but you can buy it now for just over $100. That’s just $8 for Alexa compatibility (versus the Boom 2), whether you use it or not. Read the CNET review of the UE Blast.

UE Blast for 40 percent off

oontz-angle-3-plus-08 — For $30, you can’t ask for better.

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Oontz Angle 3 Plus for $30: OK, this isn’t a UE speaker. But if you want to get a great-sounding, water-resistant model in the under-$30 range, you can’t do better than this one. Read the CNET review of the Oontz Angle 3 Plus.

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Hey Cheeps, Rick is still on vacation for the few more days, but he’ll be back in this space soon. In the meantime, the rest of the CNET crew will be doing our best to fill his shoes, finding the best deals we can.

Unless you’ve been living under a deals rock for the last week or so, you know Amazon’s big Prime Day sales event happens on Monday, July 16. Amazon typically fills its virtual aisles with Amazon devices at steep discounts, but if you need a new 4K media streamer now, today’s deal from QVC (via slickdeals) is better than any Amazon price we’ve seen.

The Amazon Fire TV pendant-style 4K HDR streamer is available for just $44.96 with free shipping. That price is for new customers who use the coupon code “FIVE4U” at checkout. If you’ve already shopped at QVC or just don’t want to sign up for an account, you can grab the Fire TV without the code for $49.96.

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For comparison, Amazon’s current price on Fire TV is $70, and the lowest it’s been to date is $50. Sure Amazon could discount it further on Prime Day but there’s no telling for sure, and we wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon reserved its best deals for the newer Fire TV Cube instead.

In my review I liked a lot of stuff about non-Cube Fire TV, in particular its voice capabilities thanks to Alexa. If you already have an Echo Dot or other Alexa speaker you can stream stuff and control some aspects of your TV hands-free, without having to pick up the remote. Overall I still prefer Roku, but at this price the Fire TV is a great alternative for 4K HDR TV owners who love Alexa.

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Revealed last week as part of the latest legal battle between Apple and Samsung, a document called “Android Project Software Functional Requirements” described the concept for Android before the iPhone was unveiled. Android early on was based on Sun’s Java running under Linux and wasn’t keen on touch-screen support.

“Touchscreens will not be supported,” Google said in a copy of the July 2006 document received by CNET. “The product was designed with the presence of discrete physical buttons as an assumption. However, there is nothing fundamental in the product’s architecture that prevents the support of touchscreens in the future.”

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You’ve got to love eBay. Yeah, it’s chock-full of reflecto-porn and dirty second-hand furniture, but every now and then it’s also a source for the latest and greatest gadgets — or at least cleverly described junk masquerading as such.

According to Engadget, one of the most curious recent additions to the auction site is the highly sought-after Motorola Droid, aka the Motorola Milestone. Its seller describes it as a pre-release version — one of five handsets that was intended for Motorola engineers. Apparently the phone is in perfect working order, runs Android 2.0 (Eclair), and is ready to activate.

Being a pre-release model, there are some differences between this and the final Droid. The seller says his product has a chrome bezel, not a black one, silver buttons instead of gold and ‘enhanced LED lighting’ on the front-facing buttons — whatever that means.

Obviously, the listing could turn out to be a big, fat hoax, but then again, it may not. At the time of writing, it’s reached a pretty reasonable $485 (£290), though with four days remaining on the auction, it could reach a quite ludicrous figure.

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