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Rated: Nokia 5300 music phone - Gadget Candy

As a basic music player, this phone does a job. It doesn’t have many bells and whistles, but it will play the sound of bells and whistles in pristine stereo.

Eh.

Ten Best Ways To Blow Your Bonus - Forbes.com

Expecting a $200,000 bonus? We suggest spending $70,000 of it on a 23-day world tour via private jet. If something closer to home is more your style, check out BMW’s 500 horsepower M6 convertible. It will set you back $104,000.But you’d better act fast. If the kind of money being doled out this month and next is any indication, these and other big-ticket items won’t be around for long.

Consume conspicuously!

$24,000 mouse comes with warranty | Crave : The gadget blog

Pat Says Now has drawn even more attention to itself with the “Diamond Flower,” which it describes as “the world’s most expensive computer mouse” at more than $24,000.

With a three year warranty, why not put one on each trader’s desk?

InterActive Home blog presents:

The system runs Windows Vista Home Premium and comes with a remote control and wireless keyboard. It will offer an optional digital tuner for receiving TV, which can be recorded onto the internal 500GB hard disk drive. Sadly, and oddly, there is no Blu-ray drive.The Japanese are getting it first and a US version is due out in March with a price tag of around £800.

That’s about $1,600 for those of you who don’t actively trade currencies.

Sprint Business - VI-2300 by Sanyo®
Specifications
Operating Mode: Dual-Band/Tri-Mode: This phone may be used on and while roaming off the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.
Dimensions: 3.34″ x 1.85″ x 1.05″
Battery Type: Lithium Ion (Li-Ion)
Battery Life: Up to 3.25 hours continuous digital talk time. Analog mode uses more battery, up to 1.75 hours continuous talk time.
Weight: 3.6 oz
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Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Widescreen - Review by PC Magazine

The ThinkPad T60 Widescreen gives you all the lovable features of a ThinkPad T60, but with a wider, 15.4-inch screen—and the weight isn’t a burden either.

We beg to differ. These days 5.7 pounds might as well be an anvil.

HP Compaq nc8430 - Review by PC Magazine

The nc8430 offer three things that will help boost productivity: A 15.4-inch widescreen display, excellent performance components, and good security features.

Now all it needs is a good administrative assistant to operate it.

Gateway NX570XL - Review by PC Magazine

Buying a business laptop usually requires some shopping know-how, staying within a budget, and finding vendors that will give you the wiggle room to swap out components. The Gateway NX570XL ($1,350 list) offers all that in a stable design that lets you use all of the older accessories (such as transferring the modular hard drives) should you decide to upgrade to a new Gateway laptop in the future.

Or not.

:: LAPTOP Magazine • Sony VAIO VGN-N130G ::

The Sony VAIO VGN-N130G proves that Apple isn’t the only company that can turn notebooks into design statements. Available in your choice of white, black, or like ours, wenge brown (picture coffee with too much cream), the minimalist, angular machine is intriguingly appealing.

How much you want to bet some engineer had a stroke of genius after spilling coffee on his laptop?

Prosumer HD Camcorder is another great Canon - SlashGear

So you’ve spent all the kids inheritance on that once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, and you really want to rub the little buggers’ noses in it. A standard consumer camcorder, even one claiming to record in HD, just won’t cut it, Daddio; you want to set your sights a bit higher and check out Canon’s range of prosumer shooters. Still, if the XL H1’s sub (but only just) $10k price-tag makes you sweat so much your toupee slips off, then how about the XH A1 - a relative snip at $4,000. With 800 TVl/ph resolution captured by the same 1/3-inch sensors that its big brother uses, simultaneous HD and SD output and a 20x optical zoom, it’s a heavyweight performer at a bantam price.

Of course, our readers laugh at the $10k price tag and probably will go for the H1.