Today Microsoft's Major Nelson has announced that they will be offering an additional $50 rebate on the XBox 360 Elite until October 5, 2009.

This comes just weeks after the price drop of the XBox 360 Elite from $399 to $299, meaning after rebate it's just $249- not bad at all!

To quote from the Press Release: Stretch Your Entertainment Dollar with Special Offer from Xbox 360
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Reports of the "Jasper" model of the Xbox 360 have been reported to have been in stores since as early as late September, and now a newer VentureBeat gives us some better details on what to look for, particularly the output voltage on the power brick.

The Jasper chipset is, essentially, supposed to be better in every way, this including the amount of power it requires. So it seems,...

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Buying a new computer is probably the most confusing shopping experience for techno-newbies.

As soon as you're in the door you see rows of seemingly identical computers, plastered with stickers full of technobabble.

But it's not as confusing as it first looks. You don't have to understand the ins and outs of microprocessors to make a smart buy.

The...

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This is a picture of the 1,300 unopened rebate forms a Mercury News reporter found in a dumpster near Vastech, a rebate processor for Fry's Electronics.

When confronted, the company's owner blamed it on a lazy employee who no longer works for Vastech and offered to process and sign checks for all of the envelopes in front of the

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