Back-to-School Notebook Deals for the Plundering, Pt. 3
August 25th, 2008 by Kenneth Butler
The sales saga continues!
If your student hasn’t headed back to the books already, they certainly will in the next few weeks. And unless you’ve raised a Tracy Flick, they’ll probably kick, scream, and claw all the way there.
There are options to make the transition from summer laxness to fall stress a little bit smoother. This time of year back-to-school deals equal slashed prices on a spectrum of gadgets. So it’s still the perfect time to buy a new laptop for the student in your household.
For the last three weeks we’ve raked popular online discount stores and the websites of big-box retailers to find the best notebook deals for you and yours. For our final installment, the premier deal isn’t a notebook, it’s a 91% discount on Microsoft’s Office Ultimate 2007.
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
MSRP: 679.95
Instant Savings: $620.00
Bottom Line: $59.95
Apparently Microsoft sympathizes with the Student Struggle. Why else would they shave more than $600 off the price of MS Office Ultimate, their productivity mega-suite that includes 2007 verisons of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
That’s so cheap that Microsoft is rightfully calling the offer The Ultimate Steal. Student’s with a valid address from an educational institution and who can prove they are enrolled for at least .5 a class credit will not only receive programs critical to any office or academic environment, but they’ll get a ton of other programs, too. Included in the bundle is Outlook for email, One Note for taking notes in and out of the classroom, Publisher for special desktop publishing assignments, Accounting Express for accountancy majors or the fiscally responsible learner, and software we’re not even sure your student will need but they’ll enjoy having like Groove 2007 for group project management over the inter-webs and InfoPath 2007 to build online documents and forms.
Go to www.theultimatesteal.com to find out if you’re eligible and to take advantage of this grade A online deal. Notebook deals after the jump.
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