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hey what's going on everybody my name is Jeff Bakalar and for the next 60 minutes you're gonna have seen its finest here to help you find the best tech deals of this holiday season plus we've got great shopping advice you can use all year round just in case you're already poor from buying all your relatives gifts on my left that's your right we've got TV expert David Katz my laptop sorcerer dance sorcerer what have you been doing with laptops and deal hunting maven Bridget Carey how do you do how are you Bridget I'm ready oh I've already been scanning for deals all day ok good so I'm ready for this great let's do it let's hear it well when it comes to deals though we have to talk to Rick ok with our very own deal wizard coming in on skype from Detroit mr. cheapskate himself Rick Broudy hey wow I got I got elevated from maven to wizard I'll take it yeah you leveled up in an hour congratulations now if you're joining us live okay Rick hold on one second we'll get back to you if you're joining us live you can ask your questions via twitter using the hashtag see net live so just go on twitter and and ask us because we are going to be giving you special breaking CNET only deals that you're only gonna find right here on this broadcast ok so make sure you use hashtag see that live but first let's talk about all the hottest holiday gifts that are out there this season my panel of gift finders and deal finders what are the best holiday gifts this season hmm televisions they are yes they are really if you want to make somebody's day 2017 holiday buy them an OLED TV yeah just because that's what you do that Santa has in his pack guys that would make by 15 of them you know all the wait list is so long though maybe he gave me good so why is it that like TVs have the biggest I feel like that is the gift to get right like that's a little substantial except for like the Lexus in the driveway but you know that's the TV is a nice second place for that right on okay Dan we're gonna go the opposite direction not the $1,500 to $2,300 TV I think a lot of people are getting the inexpensive smart home devices like the Google home and the echo and the mini versions which are both about thirty dollars I think pretty much throughout the holiday season and they pair very well with other inexpensive things like philips hue smart bulbs they can get a nice little smart home eco system going for you know fifty or seventy-five dollars it's like a baby step into the smart home world for 30 dollars Trojan horse of smart home and then you get the smart bulbs and then you don't remember what life was like before you were talking to your lights yeah I feel like though with all the smart devices they kind of can't give them away though right I mean I know everyone's got like an echo dot or you know the Google home thing but I feel like right now there's they're almost at the point where like they just want them in your home there's a glut yeah they want to get it in your house as at the entry point and then they want to sell you the light bulbs and the voice shopping and all the other accessories and the fancier Bluetooth speakers to connect to them and get you hooked on that amazon shopping life right and who is it now I don't know but Berger what do you say we toss it to Rick all right Rick what do you get for us well first of all I want to be on David's gift list because he's given out big fancy TVs Dan I can get my own $30.00 dot thanks thanks for nothing yeah so you know regular cheapskate readers know that I'm all about the drones and one of the great deals that are going on right now is on the DJI spark which is kind of one of the big drone success stories of this year it's very compact but it has all these super advanced features it has Follow Me mode and obstacle avoidance and all this great stuff it's very portable and normally up up until now it's been basically 500 bucks just about everywhere lots of stores have it on sale Black Friday and Cyber Monday for 399 but right here we're given an extra 20 bucks 20 bucks off thanks to the folks at well BOTS all you need to do is apply promo code Rick 20 that's me all right CK 20 and you'll knock it down to 379 which is the best price I think I have seen on the spark ever oh my own coupon code that's when you know you've really the code Bridget it's $10 more that's excellent so what so you think right now is like the right time to jump into to drone life if you want to go something higher end you know normally you're talking seven eight nine hundred a thousand dollars to get something really fancy this is less than half the price to do that and this drone I think will ants will fit the bill for a lot of people now that being said one of my favorite products of the year I have it right here is the tech boy tibi 802 and this is just a little indoor drone for fun for people who are just getting started for kids or whatever and you control it using this little puck this little mouse that you just it's gesture controlled so you pivot it goes this way and you pivot back it goes this way it's super easy to fly it's like 25 30 bucks the best thing the best thing ever see that that's where I'll get started on a drone at least it but like is this or is it rare to see sales on drones like this or I mean it's now the time to dive in if you are on the fence about drone life right so the spark is rare to see on sale like I said it's been $500 since it debuted earlier this year 399 and then 379 that's a great deal I would jump because it may be a while before we see a price that low again this little guy that I was talking about this this tech boy is very frequently in the anywhere from twenty to thirty dollar range so if you're just looking for something as a gift to give to somebody this this is awesome I can't recommend it highly enough I love this little guy okay what else you get oh my gosh well so I would be remiss if I didn't we didn't talk about Amazon let's just do this real briefly because I think everybody kind of knows at this point what Amazon has to offer but but the tablets the tablets you know you've got the the Fire HD 10 which is currently 99 bucks you've got the HD 8 which is 50 bucks and then you've got the fire 7 which is 30 bucks there's just amazing deals and the HD 10 in particular Dan's got it right here on the table with us yeah I mean for that amount of money given that this is a newer generation model faster processor high-resolution screen Bittan Alexa I mean it's just it's madness that you can get this much tablet for this little money and actually target is doing 15% off site-wide today meaning that in theory you could get the Fire HD 10 for 85 bucks and I think they're out of stock but I think you can still order it so it might be worth and look even Amazon it looks like is now backordered on this and I can understand why I mean that's that's a no-brainer no I was gonna say like I feel like that for I mean for me I'm a new I'm a new parent and that's something you can just give to a small child and not really get heartbroken when it inevitably gets shattered I have a one and a half year old that's exactly what I do with the fire seven which is only like 30 bucks now on sale early somebody ride a it was like really cheap so that's our airplane tablet for loading up all those Disney movies and it's like who cares it was just like 30 bucks you know and they have the kids version that comes with like a rubber bumper and like a no-questions-asked replacement thing right but this reviews a couple of months ago and a hundred fifty bucks it was really good at 99 bucks it's really really good especially if you use Amazon Prime video a lot of Amazon services the only thing is if you want to use Android apps that are not in the Amazon App Store you have to jump through a few hoops to get to the tradition but you can do what you can you're basically hacking your tablet but most of the big games and apps are in the Amazon App Store but it's mostly for like reading books and watching videos and some basic webs and that's what you do the most with the fire because I always wonder like what are people using these for that's what it is it's basically a portable you know streaming TV thing right as opposed to the next step up in a tablet which is like an iPad which is at least 300 bucks to get into that maybe a little bit less during a holiday time but for a 99 bucks something that's almost as good not quite as good but in the same ballpark is that 9.7 inch iPad yeah it's great it's have always been on the top of people's like shopping list when it comes to our CNET surveys we do a holiday surveyor and it just came out today that tablets went down a few notches especially with millennials it was like lower than four or something like that so it's maybe tablets you know are kind of seeing a time where people aren't as giddy as maybe other phones are bigger yeah laptops are smaller the tablets in the middle of getting squeezed they're becoming more specialty items for specific things like sitting on a plane watching Amazon Prime videos yeah how's the battery on them you know the battery is not terrible watching video is actually a pretty low stress thing for battery on most products and you'll get a good amount of time just doing streaming videos as opposed to playing games right and at that price I don't even care if I leave it on the plane exactly and it's a reasonable higher grade for the next passenger right it's a communal tablet that's supposed to be there someone will call security and say there's a mysterious you know electronic things thanks a lot all right Rick we're gonna come back to you in our next segment but for right now I want to jump on Twitter and see what is happening again please use the hashtag CNET live and you can ask us for all types of buying advice even if it's not tech even if you just have someone you want to buy a gift for we're gonna we're gonna help you out hey I'm just throwing that out there all right maybe Dan can help us out with this first a first one from Chris on Twitter asking I'm looking for a new laptop ideally 13 inches lightweight an SSD and under 700 I mean you're not a miracle man that's millennium one that everyone's super interested in I do have one right here that's a little bit more but I think a really good deal and that's the current generation surface pro from Microsoft that's usually $9.99 and they make you buy this keyboard thing which is really the best part about it separately for more than a hundred dollars right now you can get the base core i5 version of this plus one of the keyboard things for $8.99 and they've also got some deals on the surface laptop if you want to go much less expensive than that I saw that one of my favorite Chromebooks the Acer Chromebook R 13 which is one of the longest battery life laptops we've tested it collected at more than 13 hours on our test which is a pretty tough test is a hundred bucks off at Costco right now and maybe a few other places it's usually 389 now it's 289 now that's a Chromebook but 99% of what you do I got a facebook usually anyway with a Chromebook and it's got a touchscreen and it's got one of those 360 hinges that's a great deal yeah does the end that surface that has an SSD oh yeah I mean almost any laptop except for I can't I'd be hard-pressed to think of a laptop you could buy our now that does not have an SSD unless it's one of those weird just bulky office laptops so last Christmas I got my mom a Chromebook and she's the most tech Luddite person and I was afraid she wouldn't know what she was doing but immediately she's like you know going on using using Facebook using the Internet and everything loves it and then she busy to me recently she's like I love this thing I was like yeah I was like 300 bucks very difficult to mess up a car but that's the size that no that's and of just from personal experience I have friends who have been really nervous really intimidated by kind of investing in that Chrome ecosystem but it's really not a huge that's really all just in your facebook and everything else you do exactly all right really cool let's see if we can find another question here I've got something coming in well here's a here's maybe dan and I we can have a crack at this coming in from a Gattis wants to know the best 24-inch monitor deal just for general computing I feel like I mean you know I have an acer at my desk that I really like but I know they make a lot of sub 24-inch monitors that you could probably get for under $200 that really you're gonna do what you needed to do especially if you're not worried about latency and stuff like that yeah they make a lot of good monitors I think Dell also does a lot of good monitoring for gaming these days and they have a ton of various Black Friday into cyber monday deals on their site they're even doing cyber monday door Busters like limited time stuff like on every hour during the day so you could find something good there if you're super you know anxious about getting just a 24 inch monitor and and you don't have these prerequisites that are gonna have you finding like special ports or special you know specs about that pretty much any of these sites are gonna have some kind of discount so you know you'd really ship it right monitor totally I mean that makes 4k monitors yeah boy just go with that sort of you know brand and you're gonna be well served with that all right please keep these questions coming we're here to help as you can see we have to take a quick break but when we come back their play more deals out there we're going to learn all about David Katz Meyers gift picks you're not going to want to miss we're dealing with like the best TV person on planet Earth so we might want to stick around to hear what he has to say we'll be right back CBS Thursdays welcome TVs number one comedy brings you scientific breakthroughs can't believe you 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buyer's guide we are live my name is Jeff Bakalar here in the CNN New York studios along with our gang of experts Bridget Carey Dan afternoon David Katz Meyer and via Skype from Detroit it's CNET cheapskate Rick broy d'you like being called a cheapskate okay well I should be used to it by now it's been 10 years since I agreed to be called that in public you're a brave man we're here gathered to help you find the best products and deals this holiday season now if you've got a specific question specific buying advice hit us up on Twitter right now just use the hashtag seen it live and we will figure out a way to answer your question I want to know what other deals rick has yes because he seems to like have a stockpile of them and I want to know all about that right so before I go any further I wanted to mention something that everybody should be doing today Cyber Monday and pretty much every other day of the year on any deals that you're shopping for is to use a cash back service you know we talked about the Amazon stuff if you go through a site like Ebates or top cashback or be frugal before you head to Amazon they're literally offering eight percent cashback on most of Amazon's stuff right now so that $100 tablet you're gonna save another eight bucks just by purchasing it through a cashback service so Rick how long does it take to get that cash well it's not gonna try it but I was always thinking like how am i how many hoops got to jump through know the number of hoops he jumps her to get it is next to zero I you literally start your shopping at that site then click through to Amazon shop like you normally would so you don't get the cash back right away it's usually the payout is roughly every 90 days but every you shop you do this all the time a little bit starts to add up and add up and by the time you get your payout now you're looking at 10 20 50 bucks that you would have not had otherwise it's it's no-brainer no strings use it rajat but how many toolbars on my browser do I have to install your toolbar I'm very anti toolbar myself I do use the Ebates toolbar which is kind of nice because it pops up immediately to let you know what kind of cash back offer is available wherever you happen to be shopping but if you're anti tool bar you don't need to use it it's people are very suspicious of these things and I get that but I have used them for a couple years now without incidents of always getting my money back it's great I really especially today because a lot of the percentages are higher because it's Cyber Monday that's really good advice appreciate that Rick we're going to come back to you in just a little bit I want to pivot over to David Katz Mayer Dave let's give you the spotlight for once in your life okay and I want to talk about how important it is to pay attention to TV deals specifically because they're probably the best products that you should be buying right now so what is on your radar for pretty much the best television deal / home entertainment going on on this Cyber Monday so we'll talk about we'll start the high end and and that's because that's where you know discounts or sometimes even far between you think about Black Friday Cyber Monday you think about you know $79 32-inch TV you're gonna fight somebody to get what these are you know the deals that I like are the ones where you can you can buy them you know any time obviously and the price is as good as it's gonna be all year and probably until next year because that's what the tini cycle works right now the TVs are is cheap is there ever gonna be until basically 2018 Thanksgiving time and later so the first one is an LG OLED and if it'll be there's no oo LED technology is the best picture quality ever tested spectacular image quality and that all the old ads basically have the same picture so you can buy the cheapest ones kind of st. pictures the most expensive one so the cheapest one now is the cheapest has ever been $1500 for a 55 inch and 2300 for a 65 inch and those are really expensive but you're in buying a TV great TV you're going to keep it for a long time you're gonna watch it you know eight hours a day or whatever and at the end of the day it's I think it's worth it at this point to step up and get that I just want to sneak in a personal recommendation yeah I cannot explain to people watching how freakin amazing this television looks yeah if you play a lot of video games myself like Dan and Bridget and Dave I mean I you sometimes have to peel me away from it amazing it really there's I just can't really put it into words what it's like plan a 4k HDR video game on one of those bad boys okay that's the and it makes it makes everything pop regardless of you know video games movies you know you're watching we have a Price is Right just just special price is right yes it's so good did Drew Carey amazing but it's the black levels it's the contrast is the brightness it's the colors it's the pure perfect off angle it's everything comes together it's it's really the best picture we've ever seen and so anyway this team is the one to get and if you have the money if not save up a little bit but let's say you don't want to spend you know fifteen hundred dollars on a television so you go yes you can get a perfectly decent LCD based television Vizio is right now the best bang for the buck they've been getting great reviews from me for years the M series is my favorite right now Editors Choice Television I've seen it the 50-inch starts at 500 bucks so that's the cheap as it's been all year and a great television does 4k does HDR look spectacular you know it's not gonna get as good of a picture as OLED yeah but you're also gonna save a heck of a lot of money and it looks really really really good so there's there's a lot of other TV deals out there I still like these best for example there's a Roku TV the TCL Roku TV is even less expensive than the videos in general there's they have a 65 inch for 650 for example which for that sized television with Roku built in is great great Smart TV and streaming for that kind of thing and they make a great secondary television maybe about that size - you know if you just want to augment your TVs around a house you want to get one you know for another room they're a great choice because they got that that Roku built-in with all the streaming apps yeah the TCL TVs kind of impressed me I was playing around with one in your lab yeah that Roku you know sort of operating system you've you just know how to use it out of the box and I feel like a lot of these televisions maybe they're not the most user-friendly when it comes to the menu systems and whatnot but that TCL really kind of blew me away with like oh this is just a big old Roku with a screen inside yeah yeah and it's guy and they puts the inputs right at the same levels NetFlow ya know so any it shows you live previews in it you can name all the inputs it's just a dead simple operating system kind of thing again for a parent or grandparent that wants to get into streaming and Bowler can save a lot of money doing this oh this is great I mean it really so this you know those TVs that have been great you know again really simple really inexpensive and this says you don't to connect another device to them you got the same remote doing everything it just makes it so much easier to use um I want a pivot real quick into a specific Twitter thing for you because now that everyone knows you're here and you're live everyone's got questions don't worry Dan there's playing stuff where that came from but for you specifically and off the top here and I know you know why this question I don't know if it's a hundred percent accurate but this question came in from Luke and he says hey gang why isn't Samsung that aggressively in the OLED market well it's mainly manufacturing yeah they didn't invest years ago in building big screen no lies no I don't know people know this but Samsung makes more tiny phone size o LEDs anybody else they dominate the market with iPhone 10 and everything else you know but when it comes to large screens its LG and they're the ones invest in the factory to create 55inch 65inch it's 77 inch large screen ohlet's so that's the main reason samsung decided to make an investment a while ago and continue their LCD production for whatever reason and you know now they're kind of paying the price I mean they they they still could them maybe they can make that investment you know now or a couple years in the future but they're not going to catch up to LG for a while right they kind of set the bar pretty high for quality and price so that's really kind of tough to see to navigate right maybe if you're building new factories takes a while to make enough TV stick to catch it yeah and that kind of leads into another few questions we got if OLED is the kind of TV you want to buy but LG is too much money is there any sort of wiggle room in between of like I know a budget oh that doesn't exist but what kind of advice you have for someone who's looking for something like that I would definitely say a good local dimming LED based LCD like that Vizio that I talked about and at 500 bucks for you know a 50-inch TV there's a really really good TCL Roku TV local dimming one that you're talking about Jeff and you saw back there in the TV lab yeah that's 600 bucks at Best Buy great television I mean the Parrish warleggan's look let me TVs is really really good yeah and that's what I'd recommend and there's a big gap between those two and there's plenty of high end LCDs Sony makes a good one but you know they're they're bang for the buck I like the T seals and the Vizio 's and then if you're really going to splurge the LG ohlet's excellent buying advice I want to go back into a few more general questions on Twitter don't forget please use the hashtag see that live hey Dan hey yeah this is from Andrew what's a good laptop that's could be on sale right now for gaming and video editing I feel like those two things kind of go hand-in-hand when you're talking about graphics cards and processing power do you have some sort of maybe mid-level recommendation for those two things you know it's funny I actually do have a great really inexpensive gaming laptop I was going to show you guys right really new it is right here I always love it when things are brand new and they're better than the previous version and they're on sale which is happening here with this Inspiron 15 7000 from Dell so it's not part of the Alienware line which is Dale's real gaming line instead this is their Inspiron line which is usually pretty boring and great but they make this cool black and red gaming one it started last year and it was okay it gave you a pretty good graphics card in a video 1050 this year it's got a 1060 which is really what you want if you want to get into VR sure and just you know mainstream games at 1920 by 1080 which is full HD resolution so this guy starts at 999 and for that you get an Intel Core i5 well today it says eight that is that is true that is the cyber monday sale that's going on right now Nvidia 1060 card I think it's got eight gigs of RAM it's got a 256 gig SSD which is not huge for games sure but you know you download them you delete them you're redownload of steam or wherever and that core i5 but the fact that you can get that Nvidia 10 64 899 now on sale is pretty fantastic if we've been playing around and testing this laptop and you know what it's pretty darn good and it fixes the main problem with last year's model which was the screen was not great this year it's better yeah the greater screen you've ever seen on anything but for a regular you know 15 inch 1080 screen it's pretty darn good I mean in considering that kind of processing power in this relatively reasonable package is not it's great you know usually you think like oh I have this big hunk and laptop that I got to carry around for this kind of stuff this is not unmanageable it's not and we've seen a lot of super slim gaming laptops like the zephyrus from Zeus right and a few other ones but they're very expensive $2,300 $2,500 and and they're very very slim and very light but you're paying a lot for that it's pretty cool it's just maybe slide this closer to here okay going down to this break I think for gaming you are we all figured out years ago that if you're going to trade between the CPU and the GPU invest more in the GPU and I'll get more gaming bang for your buck and the core i5 is fine frankly I agree I 7 maybe a little too much you can get this for a couple hundred bucks more you know there's a step up and get ones on sale also but this is that $9.99 now currently $8.99 base model excellent alright you can always find cnips see net seam maps what's that you can find our top gift picks in the holiday buying guard guard guide there should be a URL right here it's a little lower in the meantime we have to take another short break up 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you very soon don't worry Rick stand by we're going to talk about deals and laptops for the next few minutes but keep those questions coming right in again hit us up on twitter using the hashtag seen it live okay so Rick ready to come back to you what else do you have that is pretty cool today that we need to check out right so there's two things I want to make absolutely sure we get to and they're two of my favorite gadgets really the first smartwatches I love smartwatches I don't know why they're not more popular if for just for notifications alone to have something on your wrist that lets you know when you're getting a call a text message or whatever is not something I'm willing to live without anymore so for Android users in particular this is also iPhone compatible but for Android users in particular tech rabbit has the Verizon where 24 Android where 2.0 SmartWatch on sale for $99.99 but you can knock another 20 bucks off of that if you use coupon code TR where 24 so for 80 bucks you're getting a SmartWatch that was three hundred and fifty dollars literally as recently as about six months ago this particular model was discontinued by Verizon that was kind of introduced quietly and decision just continued quietly it's a pretty high-end model it's you know doesn't have everything it doesn't have a heart rate monitor but it's it's got most of the good bells and whistles and you know it's it's 80 bucks now and so you get a dip your toe into the SmartWatch waters for cheap that's not too bad for someone who maybe isn't sure about smartwatches normally they're like over $300 generally speaking here your average Apple lots for example yep you're you're gonna be paying in the up upwards of $300 or more so I love stuff like this and I especially love that this is new and not even refurbished so we need a Verizon customer to use it this is by Verizon but do you mean excellent question not you do not but actually this watch is LTE compatible so if you are a Verizon customer and you do want to use it without a phone you can do that mm-hmm alright what else you got first there Rick the excitement over there is powerful I don't have a SmartWatch because I'm already getting so many dings but you guys but I mean I guess it's not we want to say it but we kind of hate smartwatches Rick I know you know I gotta be the champion here for 80 bucks you can't hate a SmartWatch for for 350 bucks I get the I get it I get it so to give it a try all right I I'm the only person in the world who has an Android phone so I'm actually going to take note of of what you got there for us what's what's next though alright so next another one of my favorite products and again you guys are all gonna roll your eyes I bet is a digital photo frame though tell us about this deal from 2011 I never closed my laptop Wow as gift items go for the grandparents for you know for the parents for anybody who likes to look at photos in a traditional brain format these things are the best you get a continuous slideshow of great of all your friends your family and what's wonderful about these is that they're Wi-Fi connected you can hook them up to your to your Facebook account you can email photos directly to the frame all of the hassles that used to be associated with these products are gone so Knicks play has their newest model which is called the iris it's an 8 inch frame and as you can see in the photos it's lovely I mean it has this beautiful silver frame it's really and yeah and you can get it in a couple other colors as well so normally 200 bucks they are running a sale for 30% off but the cheapskate is here to bump that up to 34% off a little extra sugar for ya so Tina the code seen at 34 brings that down to one $31.99 it's a great gift item we have one in my house my relatives all have them now as they love them so stop rolling your eyes wait we're not I promise is it the kind of thing we're like if I give it to my mom I could just put photos on there that maybe will surprise her cuz I could just log in and just upload anything even though I'm not in the house so complicated you can literally email new photos to the frame and they will just appear as if by magic and if mom is connected to Facebook or any number of other services that use photos new pictures will appear automatically they just get sucked up by the frame you can add to it via an app very easily so it's it's they've become much easier to use because I remember you know back in the day when these were like the hot thing to have I wrote like the resolution was all janky but you're saying times have gotten better oh my gosh yeah and the hassle of adding new photos to those frames it was it was obnoxious that's why everybody hates them but what few people know is that they have evolved and gotten much better beautiful screens beautiful frames Wi-Fi the whole nine yards so I'm really I'm very fond of the product category if you know right on I appreciate we're just having fun with you there yeah I appreciate that we're gonna come back to you in just a little bit mr. Dan Ackerman it is your turn sir and I have to decide which gift I got for you to return the Smart Watch or the digital photo frame what we're gonna do Dan is we're gonna talk about getting the best bang for people's buck when it comes to deals for laptops so we've been getting a lot into like specific uses but is there anything else that you've got for us buying advice in general maybe speaking that you can lay on the two things to keep in mind are you see a lot of these you know super sale deals especially from Black Friday through Cyber Monday cyber week where like oh come to the store get this like fully featured looking 15 years like yeah like $200 usually these are not the brands and parts that you want if you get one of these super cheap ones even though it may seem like a good deal you might be disappointed long term by something that you're just not going to use a lot and then you're going to spend to replace it earlier than you normally would exactly dad said there are not often a ton of discount on super super super high-end laptops especially big high-end gaming stuff we looked at a mid price gaming laptop but for super expensive gaming stuff you may often get instead of a discount they may throw in some extras lenka Origin PC there's a big gaming PC company that we both know and they have a whole bunch of deals on their Black Friday / cyber monday pay with but it hasn't pulled up right there where you can buy a very expensive desktop or laptop instead of X number of dollars off they'll throw in a free 250 gig really fast Samsung SSD is a very long list of plus more yeah like free shipping on a big desktop that can count for a lot or an Amazon gift card fifty bucks for a bunch of free new games like Wolfenstein 2 or the new assassin's creed there's nothing I mean that's you know you're hundreds of dollars of games like you add a bunch of these things up and it's instead of having X dollars off you pay regular price on super high-end stuff and you get one hundred extras one even goes with a $50 Amazon gift cards like yeah yeah totally down with that and then at the at the you know high-end premium non gamer style you can get some pretty good new laptops for a decent amount off one of my favorite new ones actually is this guy right here this is the the HP Spectre the 2017 edition which has a cool new ceramic white look and I thought this was really a great Lee I mean look how thin that is that's pretty how light that is and that's a core i7 laptop this is a pretty isn't that nice brand new little char $12.99 now it's down to eleven twenty nine term HP so that's that's like a hundred and eighty dollars off the usual price on this and then its sister product The Spectre X X 360 which means it's got the hinge that folds all the way back I think we have the special Rick might have a special deal on that if I can get my myface ID to let me invite the spectre x360 I just I just learned about this it's normally 1249 we got it right there it's 950 right now for cyber monday but if you use the code he's ready for the code CNET hp50 not damn 50 like Rick's code 50 bucks off so it's 899 now and these are two very impressive you know new high end laptops pretty damn good I want to get into some specific questions about laptop buying from Twitter if you'll if you'll allow that let's go okay the question probably that's dominated a lot of this stuff is like well where can I get the Apple deal lay it out there for everybody is getting a discounted Apple product even a thing especially on something like cyber monday it is possible but not as easy as it is for a lot of other brands we were talking about Black Friday deals last week we noted that one of the really good deals was a Best Buy actually had I think a hundred bucks off like the Mac the classic MacBook Air which they still make even though it's not the most modern look as you're feeling macbook and they had some good deals on imax as well if you go over to Apple site they occasionally have things in like the refurbished area of the site that available at good discounts but I saw once again today on Best Buy they've got the 13-inch MacBook Pro the base model which is $12.99 which is great for a macbook pro it does not if the kind without the touch wear with the traditional function Kiro don't frankly yeah exactly a lot of people a lot of people prefer it usually $12.99 Best Buy has it for 11:49 right now so 150 dollars off for a new MacBook which is a high demand item that's probably about as good as you're gonna get new out of the box not use not reverb not last year's model right and your student discount that's back that's about a student discount yeah just hold on to that dot edu email address it's the only life advice yes I'm on Twitter was asking about like are there any yeah what other Apple sales are there and and someone was asking about like well is there an iPhone sale today at Verizon because they saw an iPhone se on sale and should they wait and I don't know if Rick can chime in on he's ever seen specific phone sales past cyber monday but the only other phone sale I saw was t-mobile has a BOGO with buy one new iPhone get another free that seemed to be the big deals this year with a buy one get one free that sometimes went up to the iPhone 8 which was actually pretty impressive and the new Samsung phones obviously I Activia second line on those though that solution is alright we're all gonna get a family plan together right alright Rick what do you think about that with Apple phone discounts right so the thing I tell people you know with all the hype with like Black Friday and Cyber Monday is that for me in my world every day is Black Friday every day is Cyber Monday and I want to remind everyone you know we're just about to pivot into the holiday shopping so there will be additional sales if you missed something today I'm pretty certain you'll see something similar maybe even a little better as we get closer to to Hanukkah and Christmas you know there's no guarantees but but there are always always deals I promise yeah there's one I saw I was just telling these guys in break there's an Apple product - speak of the devil that's actually on sale that's a pretty indirect deal so right now DirecTV now is offering a deal where there are live TV streaming service they replace your cable television so they're great for court cutters 35 bucks a month is their base package so you prepay for months which is 140 bucks you can get a free Apple TV 4k which is never discounted that's what a brand-new 4k streaming box that's 180 bucks so just do that and set your little calendar reminder for months in the future and you get $40 off the Apple TV 4k and you also can use this DirecTV now service for you know that for months so that's a pretty cool deal and again it's it's one of these things that's kind of a backdoor deal right you know you can still get a pretty good discount so there are ways to find it you just gotta really be willing to you know that's all where you go Sabres gonna say what do you think about streaming services for gifts I mean if you just wanted like maybe you know III don't really buy TVs for people but maybe I can soup up their TV and make it smarter or they just give a better experience there's a couple things there so obviously with the streaming service you're gonna say hey mom I'm gonna buy you Netflix for three months or I'm gonna buy you Netflix for you know a year whatever it is that that works out good but the eventual they're gonna start paying for it themselves or you know they're gonna have to share it with whoever one of the things that I like to say is instead of that just get them like a Roku or one of these little streaming devices that's really inexpensive and and let them experience for themselves what it's like so Roku has a deal now for example on their Express Plus which is a little thing looks like a streaming stick but it's not cheaper than heck it's 22 bucks right now at Walmart and that thing actually has an analogue output because that with the red and the yellow exists except except for you know your crotchety uncle they refuse to get rid of that television in the family room and and all the sudden that TVs transformed with Netflix and everything else Roku is also as a deal on their 4k streaming stick now just $20 off as an Editors Choice best streaming product for 50 bucks so and that has everything for khd are the kind of thing you could buy now even if you don't have 4k TV and be set for when you can't afford you know a you know one of the newer televisions in new year - excellent all right make sure you keep an eye on cnet.com slash that is Rick's domain that's where you can stay on top of all the deals that Rick has spotted we're gonna take one more break and we'll be back to wrap things up with some extra goodies in the world of gaming and a lot more deals we'll see you then stay here we'll be past my daddy was 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Rick Broyden oh wave I'm Jeff Bakalar and what we're gonna do right now is take a few more questions on Twitter let's get to the feed again if you have a question please use the hashtag seen it live so I want to get into a little bit of gaming stuff because that is my direct wheelhouse a lot of the questions coming in are asking what console should I buy are now given the the deals that are out there there's high-end game of game consoles right now and sort of the ones that have been around for a few years so I guess like and Dan and everyone feel free to chime in I feel like the best console maybe to get right now is probably the legacy ones your s yeah or a ps4 it's in a slimmer model right now I know for a fact that the ps4 slim which Maria has asked about here is only two I'm sorry only $1.99 today on Cyber Monday that is an insanely good deal in my penthouse the PlayStation 4 what a lot like 500 bucks it was way more than that yes $400 so you know you're talking about a massive discount with a gigantic library of games I really can't stress enough if this is your first foray into the current generation of games $200 for a console with such an amazing library you really can't go wrong on and 1s is 189 which is the lowest price ever that's the lowest price everybody and that thing plays 4k blu-rays you know just in case you care about that but you know obviously the games and everything around there so yeah price are better never unknown yeah I you know I think like the Xbox one X and the PlayStation 4 Pro you're not going to get really much of a deal on right now plus that's the higher end stuff you you really need a 4k TV to take full advantage of what those consoles have to offer so I think right now for this season the real sort of sales the real discount and bargains are within those legacy consoles but VR Dan is having this sort of you know how are you I was just say to people whether it's the HTC vive or the oculus rift it was so complicated to put these things together some of the computers and they were so extensive I sure it was like having a boat or like a swimming pool someone else should have you should have a friend who has one I don't use it but you don't have to look through the trouble of owning it but now I've got the I've got the PlayStation VR right here that works with that $1.99 PlayStation 4 also works with the PlayStation Pro but this is down to I think $2.99 now in different bundles and goes up from there if you add the the camera and the controllers and games and things like that and then the oculus rift the thing to kick all this off right was something like 6 or $600 it was just a lot of set of dollar signs plus $200 for controller yes that came out a little bit later now the whole thing this thing and the set of controllers is 350 which is just unfathomed a dropped into 399 and then for holiday time 350 and frankly quality wise it's fantastic it works with fairly inexpensive computers now like that Dell Inspiron 99 one we just looked at anything with a you know Nvidia 1060 or better and it's just a great experience and the vibe is discounted too but not as much now a lot of people asking about specific games here and there you can find for newer games at least you can find roughly 5 to $10 off some of the biggest releases of the holiday season like Assassin's Creed origins Wolfenstein 2 but there really isn't necessarily and you guys can speak to this the gigantic sort of sale on the on the brand-new game that Mark IV that though on the PC side sure through Steam and other guys new games whether it's Wolfenstein or Assassin's Creed definite discounts going on at least in the past week right and frankly on the PC side games get discounted awfully quickly yes it's almost disturbing how quickly a brand new game that somebody's put use of their life into and million tens of millions of dollars and all this in four weeks it's 25 760 bucks yeah it's good for us gamers short-term not good for making new games in the long term yeah when I talk to though only cares about the switch I mean I mean at least in terms of like parents looking for their kids or you know just like interested and everyone's buzzing about it but that I don't say all right you're probably not gonna find a Nintendo switch on sale but I mean it's or even fun to find a lot of places right yeah you can actually find one we're before you couldn't even find it that's right okay very good well I mean it is fantastic it's tough too they're ready to pull the trigger right I mean I was thinking about it it's heart right now I'm a commuter and you know it's like a ride plainest thing on the on the on the train you know I just wish talk about Skyrim on that thing Tyra replayed at least four times you know but now fifth and obviously the marketplace Skyrim on PlayStation VR now I can't have to buy another version of it right that's the problem but yeah and obviously Mario I mean like Oh play the heck out of that game so you know I know bottom least a good thing is you know when the switch first came out there were all these bundles that packed in junk you really didn't need but now it seems like you know the stock is catching up with the demand and if you do have to get forced into a bundle maybe you're not you know having to buy or spend extra dollars you're really just getting the full price for everything else as a switch by yes I'll ask you the expert James best gaming expert on the planet yeah Lachlan well they weren't that's fact that of course so when when can when is the price on the switch going to go down when is the first price drop on its own people don't want them as much anymore that's what will happen this thing is the hottest console that they've had since the original Wii it out sells a lot of the other consoles it is very high in demand I don't think that's happening for at least a year if not more okay yeah so sorry to bum you out that switch but guess what cats it's worth it all right just make sure you get the extra set of controller so you can do the four players split-screen on Mario girl we're just family same room activity yeah you can think of can I get a deal hashtag Rick so it actually has discounts yeah I go out to Rick Rick if you don't have a deal on the switch you have to have something you could help us out before we have to say goodbye you know just just use the coupon code Rick I'm Shirley the universal coupon cash back so yeah actually let me circle back to something David mentioned in the last segment which was about streaming services Hulu is running a deal right now you can get the limited commercials plan for $5.99 per month instead of $7.99 per month so and that's for your first year so over the course of that year you'll save 24 bucks which is enough to buy that Roku Express plus for 22 bucks there you go that's pretty done and $2.00 left to spare of course I'm a $2.00 off to spare you think about that we did some math nice arithmetic we're doing everything here on the show Rick is there anything else you want to close it out with or you feel bad I think of gift ideas let's talk about some old school school streaming and that's the movie theater right I know that you like to go to the movies or you know someone who does I really think the gift of the year to get for that person is a movie pass subscription you guys know movie pass yeah can you explain for people who might not know right so movie pass costs 10 dollars a month and for that 10 dollars you can go to you can basically get a movie ticket every single day of that month so you can literally go to the movies every single day if there were actually that many good movies to see and so but you again it's a subscription service so it's 10 bucks a month but you can buy this for someone for 3 months 6 months 12 months and you're basically giving them carte blanche to go to the movies as often as they like and I just I think it's a I think it's great I mean it's literally the price of one movie ticket you know gets you into the movies 29 more times in a given month amazing I thought not every theater was going to participate in time I thought so they say I think in excess of like 90% of theaters accepted and really what you get from movie pass is just a kind of regular debit card so a theatre would really have to work hard not to accept it because it works just like a debit card does you just you go you buy your ticket using this thing they're none the wiser you know there are a few limitations on what you can see like you can't go see a 3d movie you can't go in the fancy D box seats or anything like that but for the most part it's a pretty easy experience excellent all right Rick we've got time for one last one do you have one you want to give us before we must say goodbye oh my gosh I have to say goodbye okay so phones let's talk about a phone deal so the hot phone earlier this year was the Google pixel and if you are not really hung up on the pixel - you don't mind going back a generation daily steals has the original pixel and it's new not refurbished it's unlocked for 449 for $49.99 with a coupon code that I'm hoping will put up somewhere it's cheap skied pixel with all the vowels taken out oh wow okay extra ten bucks off an already good deal maybe we'll tweet that or something okay excellent Rick can't thank you enough for all the deals man I really appreciate it thanks for having me it was a pleasure all right that's about all the time we have right now a very big thank you to Bridget for help steering the ship thank you for doing that oh he's a pleasure big shout out to Dan Ackerman David Katz Mayer and of course Rick broiler for taking time out of their very busy day to help us here on Cyber Monday you can find all their recommendations in the CNET holiday buying guide and of course on Rick Britta's corner I've seen it at the cheapskate blog and you can keep track of all of his Deal Seeking work at cnet.com slash and of course that's all year round you can always check out CNN com deals for even more thank you to everyone happy holidays and we will see you next time