Today's email blast from The Source (the Canadian version of Circuit City) highlights gaming computers. The first item is the ACER ASPIRE AM5700-E5731A DESKTOP COMPUTER GAMING BUNDLE, which comes with a 7200rpm 640GB hard drive.
Red all-caps text, however, screams that you can UPGRADE TO 1TB FOR $650. Surely 1TB of RAM, I thought. After all, these days 1TB drives are under $200 and some even around $100. I checked the specs for the ACER ASPIRE AM7720-E7730A DESKTOP COMPUTER GAMERS BUNDLE but no, the extra $650 was for an added 320GB worth of disk space. Works out to $2.03 per gigabyte.
The site doesn't seem to sell internal drives, but one of their 1GB external drives is a mere $250 (works out to 25 cents per gigabyte).
The Source is operating under bankruptcy protection in Canada, and so I can see why it might want to charge 8x more for the larger hard drive.
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