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Circuit City has a variety of bargains available in its 3 day Cyber Monday sale, but don’t expect super discount doorbuster specials. Examples:

Laptops:

• Acer Aspire AS5100-5023 15.4″ Widescreen Notebook PC with AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, and Vista Home Premium reduced by $210 to $639.96.
• HP Pavilion dv6449us 15.4″ Widescreen Laptop Computer with AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, and Vista Home Premium reduced by $210 to $739.99.
• Gateway M6817 15.4″ Widescreen Notebook PC with Intel Core 2 Duo T5250, 2 GB RAM, 250GB hard drive and Vista Home Premium reduced by $200 to $799.96.

Plasma TV - Hitachi 42″ Plasma HDTV Model #: HIT P42H401 reduced $300 to $1099.99.

External Hard Drives - Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 750GB External Hard Drive reduced $60 to $219.99.

There’s much more and note that they are offering %10 off on some items if you choose to pick them up at a local Circuit City store instead of having them shipped to you.

Staples has posted their Cyber Monday flyer and here are some of the deals:

Compaq laptop - Presario C712NR Notebook PC reduced $400 (with instant coupon) to $349.98. With 1GB memory, 80GB Hard drive, DVD R/RW with Double Layer Support, 15.4″ WXGA display, and Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, it’s a good deal.

External hard drive - Maxtor 500GB OneTouch™ 4 reduced $90 to $79.98.

LCD monitor - Hanns-G 21.6″ Widescreen HD Ready LCD Monitor with built-in speakers. Native resolution: 1680×1050. Reduced $150 to $149.99.

There’s more there and as usual with “Cyber Monday” deals, it isn’t tied to Monday and in fact started today at 6AM EST.

Last week featured announcements from various electronics retailers trying to trump each other for sub-$200 prices for the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player (which we have mentioned previously):

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