Tech Bargain Thread: Post Your Deals Here!

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

Not sure how folks feel about renewed/refurb iPhones, but Amazon has renewed premium iPhone 13 Pro Max 128gb with a 1 year warranty for $756-779.

Ive been watching a number of iPhones for my wife, and this is the lowest price I've seen since it was $815 for about 18 hours a month ago.

Just have to decide if she wants to keep or return the 12 Pro Max 512gb for $700 that she recently ordered, or get this 13 for $60 more instead. She loves the idea of all that storage on the 12, but I get the impression that she doesnt really fathom just how big 512gb is (we ordered that 12 because I felt that all that extra storage would enhance the resale/trade in price)

 

[Scott Cooper's Grand Slam]

Not sure how folks feel about renewed/refurb iPhones, but Amazon has renewed premium iPhone 13 Pro Max 128gb with a 1 year warranty for $756-779.

Ive been watching a number of iPhones for my wife, and this is the lowest price I've seen since it was $815 for about 18 hours a month ago.

Just have to decide if she wants to keep or return the 12 Pro Max 512gb for $700 that she recently ordered, or get this 13 for $60 more instead. She loves the idea of all that storage on the 12, but I get the impression that she doesnt really fathom just how big 512gb is (we ordered that 12 because I felt that all that extra storage would enhance the resale/trade in price)

Is your wife a photographer? For context: I’m not. I’ve had a 13 Pro since September (and an iPhone for for about a decade), and I only use 41 GB of my phone’s internal storage. My wife is a shutterbug. On her Android phone, she’s filled up 256 GB of onboard storage, a 512 GB SD card, and hundreds of GB of cloud storage.

 

[soxhop411]

Is your wife a photographer? For context: I’m not. I’ve had a 13 Pro since September (and an iPhone for for about a decade), and I only use 41 GB of my phone’s internal storage. My wife is a shutterbug. On her Android phone, she’s filled up 256 GB of onboard storage, a 512 GB SD card, and hundreds of GB of cloud storage.

Correct. If she is a shutterbug the 128GB will be useless as a phone and camera
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/10/4k-prores-video-iphone-14-pro-256gb/

Not sure how folks feel about renewed/refurb iPhones, but Amazon has renewed premium iPhone 13 Pro Max 128gb with a 1 year warranty for $756-779.

Ive been watching a number of iPhones for my wife, and this is the lowest price I've seen since it was $815 for about 18 hours a month ago.

Just have to decide if she wants to keep or return the 12 Pro Max 512gb for $700 that she recently ordered, or get this 13 for $60 more instead. She loves the idea of all that storage on the 12, but I get the impression that she doesnt really fathom just how big 512gb is (we ordered that 12 because I felt that all that extra storage would enhance the resale/trade in price)

 

[Max Power]

My wife has also filled up the storage on her phone a couple times with pictures, but that's because she takes 10 of everything to share the best one and never deletes the other 9. Running out of space forced her into some cleanup that would have seemed like an insurmountable task if it were an even larger amount of storage in the phone.

 

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

I checked her current iphone 8: 19GB still available out of 64GB, and that includes hundreds of photos still on there from a photo session we did for our son's graduation.

 

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

We're keeping the 13 over the 12: longer battery life, better CPU, newer so hopefully used for a shorter while than the 13 (since both are recert/renewed)

 

[AlNipper49]

My wife has also filled up the storage on her phone a couple times with pictures, but that's because she takes 10 of everything to share the best one and never deletes the other 9. Running out of space forced her into some cleanup that would have seemed like an insurmountable task if it were an even larger amount of storage in the phone.

I just have an iCloud subscrition to offload everything. it works really well.

 

[Max Power]

I just have an iCloud subscrition to offload everything. it works really well.

We use OneDrive for the same purpose. I usually find a deal for around $70 for Office 365 Family and it covers both of us and 3 others for a year. But I still like to not look back on OneDrive and see years of junk picture hoarding.

 

[AlNipper49]

I'm not positive, but with iCloud I don't need to do anything. It stores low res on the phone and it keeps the high res in the cloud. I take a ton of pics and haven't even looked at my storage space in years.

But yeah, the family 365 is one of the best deals going when you can get it on sale. We use it too and the amount of crap that it comes with is awesome

 

[scottieo2]

Microsoft 365 Family for $99 but includes a $50 Amazon gift card.

View: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Family-12-month-subscription-Auto-Renewal/dp/B08NYWXPCS?&linkCode=ll1&tag=thevergetwitter-20&linkId=5d673e52a645ec5c0ccd3fd474a69f4e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

 

[Max Power]

Microsoft 365 Family for $99 but includes a $50 Amazon gift card.

View: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Family-12-month-subscription-Auto-Renewal/dp/B08NYWXPCS?&linkCode=ll1&tag=thevergetwitter-20&linkId=5d673e52a645ec5c0ccd3fd474a69f4e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

I did that one year, but it's a little annoying the way Amazon does it. You don't get a redemption key from them. Your subscription gets added to some Amazon app locker and is set to automatically renew at the full rate after one year. In order to use a discounted redemption key again, you have to let the subscription expire, then activate again during your grace period.

Instead I've been getting it from NewEgg. You can get a 15 month subscription bundled with some useless AV software for $70. They give you the key that you can plug in on the Microsoft site and everything stays there.

Microsoft 365 Family | 15-Month Subscription up to 6 people | Premium Office apps | 1TB OneDrive cloud storage | PC/Mac Download and Norton Secure VPN (Internet Privacy) 1 Device (PC Mac or Mobile) 1 Year (newegg.com)