Prices of computers and peripherals have just dropped again, so it’s a great time to take advantage of this. Clark saw a laptop advertised for $399 in the newspaper the other day, and desktops are around $200 in many stores. In the printer industry, Dell has decided to go full tilt against the competition, HP. The most profitable area in the printer industry is the printer cartridges, and HP has had the corner on this market for years. But with Dell coming on the scene, prices of cartridges and printers are going to go down. You can get laser printers for about $200 these days. If you’ve been using an ink jet printer, you may want to switch to laser. So, what about the ink for these printers? Retail stores that sell replacement cartridges are booming right now. You’ll cut the cost of ink by about 40 percent if you go to these third-party stores. There are also kits that allow you to fill your cartridge yourself. Kevin, one of Clark’s producers, says this is more of a pain than it’s worth.

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If you want to network computers in your home, it used to be about $200. Now you can buy the equipment for about $40. So, If you have a DSL or cable network, just hook your computers into a wireless router and buy a network card and you’re set. You can make your whole house a wireless network if you want.