Hasta La Gadget!

We at Dealzmodo like coffee. A lot. It’s not just that scientists, teachers, and Dealz bloggers drink it in the morning for the energy to excel. It’s also a daily expense that a little deal-digging can really save a bundle on. If you’re buying a medium coffee from Starbucks every workday, you’re going to be spending $520 a year. If you’re buying a fancy espresso drink, your annual bill will flirt with the $1000 mark. But you can make coffee at home, and not only will you save money because you’re not subsidizing the Starbucks music machine, it’ll probably taste way better. All you need is the right equipment. More »

The term “Ultrabook” may be just an Intel marketing buzzword, but it’s actually a pretty useful way to describe a specific kind of laptop: portable, with great battery life, and preferably no moving parts. The problem is that Ultrabook is being used to describe all manner of laptops, like (relatively) boxy, cheap machines with spinning hard disks. I’m all for Ultrabooks being affordable, but since when does a cheap laptop have to feel cheap? More »

Diagon Alley’s online storefront—which some call Amazon—is a wonderful place. The Flourish & Blotts section is an excellent way to browse through tomes of all sorts—even muggle books, like J. K. Rowling’s new decidedly adult book, The Casual Vacancy. And it’s real wizardry how you can download books onto your tablet, even if it doesn’t always apparate correctly the first time. And be sure to stop by Ollivanders—they’ve got a new wand out, and I hear it’s pretty great, even if some people are complaining that it’s just the old wand, but a little longer. Whatever it is, if Ollivanders is putting it out, I want it. When shopping online, it’s really easy to get carried away and end up blowing all your sickles and knuts, but if you’re patient, and read Dealzmodo, you can save a lot of money. More »

Some people love to complain about K-Cups—y’know, the single serving pods that produce a cup of coffee in seconds. Sure, they may be envirommentally wasteful, they might not make the best tasting cup of coffee, and a K-Cup costs more than an equivalent amount of coffee beans. But for some people, coffee is just a way to deliver caffeine, and for that, the K-Cup is a perfect solution. Making a K-cup is simple: add water, add the coffee pod, and press a button. Cleanup’s even easier. Often, this kind of convenience is reserved for offices and schools, where time and tidiness are at a premium. But today, the Mr. Coffee Single Cup Brewer—which uses K-Cups—is 39% off at Amazon, which means you can still pick up a reusable K-Cup and still save money. Never again will you clean a french press full of grinds and have to decide whether they go in the trash or the sink. [Amazon] More »

Until recently, Dealzmodo was phasing out deals on disc media. There’s a plethora of online options to stream or download, and many laptops and desktops don’t even come with optical drives anymore. It seemed like the right time to take DVDs and Blu-rays out to pasture. But many of you—committed Dealz readers—wrote us, or commented on posts that you loved discs. You pointed out that both Google and iTunes use compression to deliver HD content, and that Blu-rays offered the highest possible video quality. You suggested that that owning a physical object is different than renting bits and bytes. And you proposed that since optical media is somewhat on its way out, there’s bound to be great deals on discs. More »