At my local CompUSA, they were substituting a 20Gb CompUSA/Maxtor
HD for the 17.2Gig drive in the ad. No rebate, but free PhototShop
LE. It's a UMA66 5400 RPM 0.5Mb Cache drive. So-so, but OK
for the price.
The hottest deals at CompUSA this week, IMHO, are the free Corel
Linux Deluxe after rebate (many people think Corel is the best
personal user Linux, and this one comes with Wordperfect, etc.),
and the free Acid Music 2.0 after rebate (this program lists for
$100, and it's a lot of fun). Acid Music is a program that
allows you to "compose" music from loops. Very cool, actually.
Though I suspect that anyone who doesn't already know what it is
probably won't be interested.
The worst freebee is the PCI winmodem that turns out to be a
PCTel chipset modem. The only reason to get one of these is A)
to have an emergency stopgap if a power surge fries your current
modem; B) if you're putting together a cheapo system for a stranger
(you wouldn't foist this modem on a friend!)
Kwad