So who actually camped out at Best Buy?

[Yooformula]

me and 3 others from bcm were there plus I met pepino as I was leaving. Me and Ryan started the camp out around 11:30pm. F@cking nuts!!! the wait outside wasnt as bad as the wait inside for the damm desktop pc. I did finally have to resort to violence for a moment as some idiot cut in front of me as I was approaching a cashier(this was AFTER I waited an additional 2 1/2hrs!!!!). A couple of choice words and he gave me the WTF look and stepped back out of line.:goof

[Slow Joe]

What'd you guys end up getting? The TVs?

[88Nightmare]

I was there with yoosef. I got a samsung mini camcorder for $129 bucks. mini tapes were on sale, 4 pack for 4 bucks. or maybe it was 8 bucks, idk. Yeah it was a mad house. I got in there, got what I needed, and got the **** out of dodge lol.

[wikked]

The line at BreastBuy brookfield was about 200 deep at 5am, curved all the way around to Gander Mountain.
I got my Radeon X1600 Pro :) too bad the $60 250gb hard-drives were gone instantly.
Went to CompUSA after, saw some guy storming out "I'm never shopping here again! :rolf Got my 80pk jewel cases for $8, waited in line forevAr because their "system" was down, and had to call in every single credit/debit card for verification. Pretttty sure I was the only one with cash, ugh.

[Karps TA]

So was any of these gifts for other people or just for yourself?

I'm curious as to what "black friday" shoppers are actually there for. For Christmas gifts or for themselves.

[88Nightmare]

I wasnt doing christmas shopping, I was simply replacing a camera that I had lost.

[Yooformula]

I bought a bunch of stuff;)

[PureSound15]

I got my damn TV! It was worth the wait, freezing my nuts off outside, atleast it was good company.

I'm sitting here watching Discovery HD and I'm plenty impressed:goof

I got a bunch of the 4.99 and 2.99 DVDs as well as whatever other cheap crap I could grap.

[Yooformula]

Ryan, I got stuck for almost 3 hours waiting for that damm pc!

[PureSound15]

Holy sh!t! That's rediculous! Was it worth it though?

How many hours do you have on your TV and XBoX? The HD channels look AMAZING.

P.S. SPEED channel has a Muscle Car marathon right now, currently a show about the Grand National, pretty badass.

[Slow Joe]

One of these years I think I'll actually do that... My best memory from one early morning at Wal*Mart on black friday was watchng my grandpa try to run over some walmart employees with a cart while he was trying to enter through the exit... :rolf

[subliminal1284]

I couldnt go to best buy in the morning because I had to work, I got there around 3:30 Picked up a decent 7.1 MP digital camera with 10x optical zoom. Its for my gf though. All the stuf they had advertised on sale was gone. :(

[88Nightmare]

are you talking about that kodak? looked pretty nice.

[GTSLOW]

I got my Radeon X1600 Pro :)

FAwk thats what I wanted :D

Did you get AGP or PCI?

[wikked]

FAwk thats what I wanted :D

Did you get AGP or PCI?

AGP. It was actually benchmarked higher than the PCI-E. By like .01% :goof

Everyone was crowding that aisle, but no one seemed to be interested in them. Yay for me because I was like 200th in line.

[88Nightmare]

wow im surprised about that graphics card. I was under the assumption that AGP is outdated and obsolete. But you know what happens when you assume....

[subliminal1284]

Yeah its a kodak they had one that looked just like the one I got but was a 6.1 MP for 189 But those were gone, So I got the next step up its 7.1 MP for 236.

[GTSLOW]

wow im surprised about that graphics card. I was under the assumption that AGP is outdated and obsolete. But you know what happens when you assume....

It is, as far as I know atleast? I think what it is, is almost all mobo's are pci now and its hard to find a agp one that supports a newer processor which would be a choke point for the video card.

I think!

[GTSLOW]

AGP. It was actually benchmarked higher than the PCI-E. By like .01% :goof

Everyone was crowding that aisle, but no one seemed to be interested in them. Yay for me because I was like 200th in line.

I wonder if that card supports xfire?

Wasnt the agp one like 100 bucks cheaper than the PCI one? I saw it on there site for 99bucks I think and the pci one was almost 200.

[jbiscuit]

I went to Best Buy on 76th...they had 175 people by midnight!

[wikked]

I wonder if that card supports xfire?

Wasnt the agp one like 100 bucks cheaper than the PCI-E one? I saw it on there site for 99bucks I think and the pci-e one was almost 200.

Xfire = yes.
And nope, they were both $99, I don't have a PCI-E slot though :(



I think what it is, is almost all mobo's are pci-e now and its hard to find a agp one that supports a newer processor which would be a choke point for the video card.

I think!

You are correct sir. PCI-E slots are 16x min., compared to AGP's 8x max. Dead!

[Pepino]

Funny thing was, there was 3-4 people that I had meet in line that are on here. Only 1 I remember is yooformula, had been drinkin' earlier outside, in-line.:alcoholic

But I got 2 of thoose 32" HD LCD's, 1 for me and 1 for pops. My buddy got the other one for me. Also that damn computer...2 1/2 hours:fire for my sister.

[Z Speed]

I should of gotten a ticket

[PureSound15]

I love this TV! I didn't even realize it had a VGA input on it.

It was a rough night playing Counter Strike on a 32" LCD

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i34/puresound15/CPU.jpg

:rolf :rolf Well worth the wait!

[Cryptic]

that's sweet Ryan.... what was the cost on that again?

[Slow Joe]

After looking at TVs and stuff this weekend, I know that in the next year... I'll be in the market for some kind of HDTV with all sorts of fun features... lol :thumbsup

[PureSound15]

The TV itself was $479, and then the performance plan was only $60!

Apparently there were a couple returned to the Fox Point Best Buy, as well as 1 or 2 of the 22" computer screens.

[jbiscuit]

sweet Ryan! I'll snap a pic of mine set up as part of my home theater in my living room :)