General Tech Deals in 2026

 Okay so AI is a blessing and a curse, but it's making tech way too goddamn expensive overall - so I'm going to share some insight from 11 years working at Best Buy and 20+ years being a cheap gamer and using everything I mention here to get great value for my dollar. For retail stores, don't be afraid to do open box at stores like Best Buy - especially if it's something you can power on like a laptop. For TVs, you'll probably not be able to do that because staffing has gone to hell and no one wants to take the hour they need to hit $1,2000 setting up a TV to hit $800 if they're lucky.

The absolute best general site to get tech deals that rotate is woot - it's Amazon's sorta-not-kinda clearance site, but it's got remarkable deals on computers, phones, and especially tablets.

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I got my late housemate a Chromebook on there for $80, got 2 refurbished i7 laptops on there for $140 apiece, and got myself a refurbished M1 Macbook Air for $320 - but they're also great for grabbing a kindle for $40 or a kindle fire tablet for $25 and usually they'll have a promo code when they're clearing out the tablets to save even more money and you can hook up a kindle tablet to your PC and take away lockscreen ads and put Google Play on there within 10 minutes. They also occasionally have gaming rig deals and I bought a couple of those too and they all arrived in great shape. Woot does tend to be a bit slower shipping stuff, so you probably won't get things the next day. I just got a year of NordVPN on there for $25 - so anyone looking to take Steph's advice and maximize their Netflix subscription for WWE content or maybe check and see how well MyAEW streams Dynamite live, that's some good value there. They'll also sometimes have 10% off buying the same stuff, but doing so through their app.

They're also pretty good for shoe deals too -

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Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Laptop (S&D) - $209.99 - Free shipping for Prime members https://computers.woot.com/offers/lenovo-thinkpad-t14s-gen-2-laptop-sd-0?utm_medium=share&utm_source=app

Amazon Resale - it's basically what Warehouse Deals was - but a bit better

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So this is a fantastic way to save money and get something quicker than woot. It's one of the best places I've found to get mini PCs at a good price point - those are essentially laptop-grade processors and horsepower, but in a tiny shell and I got a bosgame E4 for $240 on there and it's had zero issues. I use them for gaming, home theater stuff like MyAEW on the TV and they're fantastic deals.

The best storefronts for value can be Youtuber stores as well.

Lon.TV

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Lon Seidman does a ton of tech reviews and sells occasional stuff on there - with some good deals recently being on tablets and a few games. The best youtuber store is Madlittleshop tho.

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I got into mini PCs thanks to him selling a review unit for $140 and it played AEW Fight Forever and Palworld decently and then I went and got a Ryzen 7-powered GEEKOM A5 from him for like $300 and that can run Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 well, and I grabbed the Ryzen 5-powered one for a work function since it came pre-loaded with a Coin Ops build full of classic games that I would of course naturally assume are all legally on there. He loads his mini PCs up with value like that, but also extra controllers or external drives - which boy howdy comes in handy now with external storage being sky high. I got four mini PCs from him and then bought one on Amazon for my aunt to use for nursing courses and I'm floored that something smaller than a router can do so much - but for gaming, he's got some great deals that naturally rotate, but right now, I'd recommend this to anyone needing a general purpose PC with some gaming too because my 2025 Ryzen 5-powered A5 can still run Street Fighter 6 and this is a bit newer. Unfortunately, drive sizes are going to be a bit smaller nowadays.

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IRL, keep an eye on thrift stores as they often have no real idea what they're selling and Goodwill even has a tech-centric store setup too. For some good value phone-wise, woot is occasional but Back Market is outstanding day-to-day.

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I got 2 samsung S22 Pluses for $140 apiece - and why do I buy 2 of everything? Better financing - I can pay the two off over 6 months and always have a spare device to work with and that was a lifesaver for my roommate's stepdad as he needed a laptop and I bought them to have as collateral for a former co-worker to help clean a destroyed room and he never got back to me, but I still had the laptops so like whatever I want to just get some use out of them and it allowed him to get classes done that he couldn't do on the chromebook I gave him.

Apple Refurbished

Apple is expensive as hell, but they do a damn good job with their build quality, so you'll get something that lasts a long time. My now 14-year old Mac Mini that I got for parts on ebay got me into MacOS, but the job search set me on needing something with MacOS now and had the timing been different, I'd have grabbed one of the 512GB Macbook Neos for $680 -

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For anything other than video editing, you're in good shape and you shouldn't be buying Apple for gaming anyway outside of an Apple TV and Apple Arcade being a good value for $100-ish before the recent price hikes.

AEW Forbidden Door 2026

Definitely a loaded up show workrate-wise. JJ with a weird intro in the dark with Renee until DG is out to face Drilla Moloney! Drilla goes for strikes but Danny wins out with a matgame including an ankle lock and kneebar. Danny powerslaps the shit out of him and gets a twist and shout! DRILLA KILLA/Omega Driver wins it for DRILLA! Good match and Drilla should be working to get an AEW deal. Blue vs. Maika is up and Skye gets an apron PK! Apron bomb and a sunset Ligerbomb gets 2. Maika hits an apron suplex after a powerslam to get into the TBS Title match! 3 way tag is hyped up.

Olympia and Rosa are out to face Divine Dominion, who get a new theme intro and even bigger dick energy. Rosa gets a tornillo while Olympia goes for a splash bodyblock off the top. Kross gets 2 off a sliding lariat to Rosa. Olympia comes in and gets a squatting Samoan drop for 2. POETRY IN MOTION BASEMENT CORNER DROPKICK BY ROSA! Avalanche rana by Bayne, who eats a Rosa missile dropkick! MILITARY PRESS BY OLYMPIA leads to an avalanche double stomp by Rosa for 2! Divine double chokeslam wins it - THIS RULED!

3 TEAM WARFARE is up and we get ref dancing during Mistico's entrance and TITAN HITS A DOUBLE RANA ON THE BUCKS! Shingo eats superkicks and hits a lariat! Shingo hits corner lariats before eating a boot and a Spanish fly gets 2! DORADA SSP TO NICK AND TITAN! Bucks prevent a tampout on la Mistica to Shingo! Michinoku driver hits for Shingo and the double stomp from Titan gets 2! MELTZER DRIVER TO TITAN WINS IT! This ruled too and I'd put it right above the women's tag.

Omega is in the second match on the card against ZSJ, who dominates ON THE ANNOUNCE TABLE WITH AN OCTOPUS STRETCH before rolling him down. Back and forth helluva kicks before the famouser from Omega. Kenny slaps him around and knees the stomach for 2. CRIPES MASSIVE KNEE TO ZSJ hits and the OWA wins it. Well that's a fiveboy. Omega aging is helping his story too. 

Mox vs. Bandido is up! Cool hype vid and Mox jumps him and the piledriver somehow slices him up AS DO ELBOWS ON THE MAT! Bandido hits an Eddie-homage frog splash caked in blood! DEATH RIDER GETS 2 AND THE MOONSAULT AND BATTERY OFF THE TOP GETS 2! RNC but Bandido gets the Bret cradle for 2.5 BEFORE THE BULLDOG CHOKE IS ON! Full RNC and Bandido passes out! Another great one! 

Bandido gets up with Mox's help and Mox puts the belt down and lets him know he respects him and Ex brings up that you gotta bleed for the Riders to respect you. AROUND THE RING DROPKICK AFTER A CLAP BY UMINO! Okay that worked and Walker puts over Shota winning with the northern lights bomb. Stack powebromb gets 2 for Shota! STRIKE KNEE/Busaiku knee gets 2.9 for Shota! Paradigm Shift and the NORTHERN LIGHTS BOMB WINS IT! THIS was the kind of match Shota has needed for years!

Mox meets with him mid-ring until THE ACE OF THE UNIVERSE IS HERE! He puts the belt on Shota and they go out to Shota's theme! Thekla's out looking like HER more than even usual and she eats an SLK kneebreaker on the apron. Thekla WANTS FOREARMS! LARIAT ON THE REBOUND BY THEKLA! Interceptor spear by Theka and two stomps win it before Taro Okada stars on angrily! She spits on the mask after taking it off and beats up Okada with it! 

Cope and Cage are out and Cope is in his army green shit but is SO BELOVED! Connors puts a match out on Cage's head! BANG BANG GANG IS OUT AND JAY WHITE IS BACK! SPEAR WINS IT! 

Women's Owen recap before Mone vs. Maya World! FALLAWAY TRIFECTA! Sunset bomb is avoided! SUNSET BOMB TO THE FLOOR AND A MOONSAULT HITS! MOONSAULT OFF THE SECOND GETS 2! CROSSFACE BY MAYA WORLD! SHE'S GOT HER IN HER FINISH! MAYA LOSES TO THE CUTTHROAT BACKSTABBER and crossface. Athena cuts a promo on Maya, so it looks like she's ending the ROH Title run.

12 man tag cage is up! It's called Death's Door. Roddy beats up everyone with a bag AND RODDY BEATS UP GUYS WITH A NES and they use controllers too! RODDY BLOWS ON THE CARTRIDGE AND THEY HIT FLETCHER! I bet that NES still works. TACKS! Mark gets mared into them! SKATEBOARD TO KYLE FLETCHER! MJF GETS AN ALLEY OOP BACKDROP ON DARBY ONTO THE TACKS! Max sweeps tacks but takes a broom to the balls from OC thanks to Willow! ORANGES TO THE FACE OF FLETCHER! PROTOFLETCHER EXPLODES thanks to Takeshita and LIO RUSH ESCAPES A BAG AND gets beaten up. 

SHOTGUN KNEES TO RODDY! OKADA GODDAMN DROPKICK HITS TAKESHITA! APRON POWER DRIVE KNEE TO OKADA! BLUE THUNDER OFF TEH APRON TO FLETCHER! DARBY GETS A COFFIN DROP AND GOES FOR A COVER BY KNIGHT'S UFO SPLASH ITS...MJF! Knight goes up on the cage and gets boobie trapped and flies off into a table before a Darby coffin drop off the cage! JAY DRILLER HITS BUT DOYLE SAVES MJF! MJF EATS THE BACK ELBOW AFTER AN ANDRADE TURN AND MARK BEATS DOYLE!

 WILLOW RETURN HYPE VIDEO! Mark chats about the win and he gets his shot Wednesday to open the show with the shittiest mic ever. VIDEO PACKAGE FOR THE OWEN! It's midnight, so I BLAME ALVAREZ! ANOTHER VIDEO FOR OSPREAY! AND OSPREAY COMES OUT AS BANE from DKR! Swerve is out as Lobo - good stuff, BUT IT IS FUCKING MIDNIGHT JESUS GUYS!

Double stomp to Swerve on the arm AND THE DEATHGROUND ON THE FLOOR GETS A TAP! Swerve busts him open but Will gets 2 off a Clash! HIDDEN BLADE IS ABSORBED BY SWERVE AND SWERVE JUST BACKHANDS HIM! Will is sliced up. Swerve is sliced up and the ring is a crime scene. MASSIVE kneeling foerarm hits and gets a 9 standing 10 count. HIDDEN BLADE GETS 2.99!

Kneeling foerarm by Will and the hidden blade and stormbreaker gets 2.9! WILL EATS A HIDDEN BLADE! BIG PRESSURE GETS 2.9! DEATH RIDERS ARE HERE! HOUSE CALL HITS AND WILL TERMINATORS UP! STANDING HIDDEN BLADE AND A BUCKSHOT HIDDEN BLADE GETS 2.9! PARADIGM SHIFT AND THE DEATH RIDER! TIGER DRIVER WINS IT! Holy shit this was batshit goddamn insane. Holy fuck!

AEW Dynamite 6-24-26 - Takeshita vs. Ricochet

 

Forbidden Door should be a highlight of a very busy wrestling weekend and this has a PPV-level match in the form of Ricochet vs. Takeshita for the International Title. Mox fires up the troops and Will falls over during the dance  DUE TO THE TUB and Marina picks him up as they go out to face Brodido and Mistico! 

Bandido mocks Marina during the break! LUCHA BRODY WITH A DOUBLE BOUNCING RUN-UP ARMDRAG! Belt shot wins it for Mox and Renee hypes up TEAM BRISCOE! Marina vs. Harley is up and PEAK AURA for Marina while Harley is in Supergirl gear and we get clips of her at the premiere. Marina bullies her before eating a half crab and some forearms that Marina tells her to DO BETTER on before overhand chopping her hard. Handheld kicks by Marina give an opening for a pumphandle back suplex by Harley! BABA NECKBREAKER BY HARLEY! RNC BUT A LEGTRAP BRET CRADLE WINS IT!

Ospreay vs. ELP is up and ELP gets a sharpshooter before a forearm and chop exchange. Styles Clash and Hidden Blade win it for Will! Will poses for fans and Swerve is out for his match. Danny does the arena walkthrough, which costs them nothing and is a tiny value add as you could see them walk right by you. Apron DVD by Swerve before an ankle lock prevents a house call and opens the door TO A STYLES CLASH BY DANNY! SWERVE KOS HIM WITH THE HIDDEN BLADE TO WIN! Swerve goes for the Penta arm snap but Will saves! Nana saves Swerve from a hidden blade and Ospreay eats a house call! Danny saves Will from a vertebreaker! 

ZSJ vs. Perry is up and ZSJ gets a win before the Bucks come out for a tag against Nichols and BAD DUDE TITO. Apron PK and the Meltzer driver win it. Velvet vs. Aminata is up and the headbutt wins it. Dogs beat up Cope and Cage. Ricochet vs. Takeshita is up and Ricochet gets 2.5 off a springboard 450. Mid-ring chop by Ricochet and Takeshita gets an exploder on the floor. Spirit Gun misses, and the power drive and raging fire win it! Team Briscoe time!

Mark promises a win and everyone brawls before Andrade saves MJF from a Jay driller. Ringshot from MJF to Mark BUT MARK DUCKS AND HE HITS ANDRADE AND EATS A JAY DRILLER! 

AEW Collision 6-20-26

 

Bucks are in action here! Bucks and Perry face the Lethal Twist. MY MONEY'S ON THEM! Blake hits a superkick on Jack, but eats double-team Bucks offense on the floor. LOCOMOTION NORTHERN LIGHTS FOR CHRISTIAN! DOUBLE REVERSE RANA BY PERRY! MELTZER DRIVER GETS 5 STARS FROM NIGEL and the win! Bickering between Kris, Harley, and Mina with Shida bragging. Harley does commentary for Mina vs. Kris. Apron slam by Stat but a draping DDT on top hits for Mina. Crossbody to the floor hits for Mina! Missile dropkick by Mina gets 2! Wacky Bang Bang Gang neutering skit. Hurt Syndicate are out to massacre dudes. THEY HURT PEOPLE! MVP says that they don't want belts - just to dish out beatings.

Sydal joins up with SkyFlight. Nigel moderates a Jericho-Ciampa talkie talkie and they'll have their match at Beach Break on July 8. They brawl, Jericho blades and eats the knee. Okay yeah I'm kinda good. Shota vs. Pac is up for FD and Mistico vs. Dante is up! Dante lets Mistico soak in the crowd love before working as the heel against him - smart move because it gets the fans more invested than face vs. face. Package powerbomb by Dante hits for 2.5. Dogs cut a good promo and Finlay shined here. Pac ass-whooping time with Jay Alexander. MOX ON COMMENTARY! Quick win with the Brutalizer. Adam Priest is out to a WCW Saturday Night-ish theme against ZSJ! 

ZSJ dicks around and he eats a forearm and uppercut before Nigel hypes up Billy Robinson for ZSJ's style. Zack gets his dickhead kicks on the mat before eating another forearm. PK hits for ZSJ but Priest hits a front chopblock! DOUBLE ARM CRANK ON THE MAT WINS IT FOR ZSJ! Athena vs. Maya World in the ultimate Cinderella story is up! Briding fallaway gets 2 for Maya. Athena brings up Maya's brother and eats a beating before Maya eats a German. O FACE GETS 2.9! Maya eats a pair of superkicks! JACKKNIFE CRADLE WINS IT!

Athena hugs her and Mercedes comes out and claps and hugs her. Wow! Dang they really turned a tragedy into something beautiful. Athena jumps Maya and they stomp her! 

AEW Dynamite 6-17-26 - Briscoe vs. MJF Tag

 

This is almost a Mystery Vortex show. MJF says he'll pick his partners tonight and for the PPV and his belt is the only one that matters. Doyle, Knight, Fletcher, Okada, and Andrade - and Trent coming up expecting him to be named is hilarious. Hazuki vs. Mone is happening and Swerve and Ospreay chat later. The PREMIER ATHLETES ARE HERE and Nese will face Omega. Snapdragon and the OWA win it! This venue looks cool and we get TMDK threatening Kenny! Bucks and Perry are here. 

Mox does Japanese pushups in the concession area as you do to prepare to tag with Garcia. AGAINST BRODIDO!? Weird to not hype that. Brody chops Mox TO THE BACK and then to the chest. Crazy that this is doable in the Aki engine but not modern 2K games. BIG OLE LARIAT TO MOX! Brody barks back and forth with Marina! 

Bandido takes out Marina and he dives on the pile! 21 Plex to Danny and the Brody suicide dive wins it! Ciampa cuts a promo on Jericho and The Dogs are beaten up by Cope and Cage - weird to not advertise their return. Bandido vs. Mox is set up backstage for the Continental belt and Mercedes is out for Hazuki. Boy this new theme sucks. Not really a lot to this one sadly beyond crossfaces and a nearfall off the bank statement. La mahistrol gets 2 for Hazuki. Backstabber into the S grip crossface by Mercedes! ARM TRAP IS ON FOR A LEBELL LOCK and it's over! Maya World hype vid for Collision before Will is out to chat with Tony when he should be on his honeymoon but he gave her a good hard smashing. Ospreay brings up ALL IN TEXAS and he helped Hangman, but Swerve didn't and Swerve is standing in his way to end his dream. Swerve tells him fuck that, he's going to take him out first and he's going to take out the system too. Death Riders come to Will's aid. 

JERICHO will meet Ciampa for a chat on Collision. 12-man tag to set up the cage match. We get a heel pumphandle on the apron tease before DOYLE DOES IT TO MJF! Andrade is overjoyed! Wackyline by KOR before a big forearm by Doyle! Jay driller to MJF! BUT DON DISTRACTS! Froggy bow but Fletcher saves! Salt of the Earth to Roddy ends it!  

AEW Collision 6-13-26 - Summer Blockbuster

 

STP faces the Death Riders in a street fight and Kenny faces BAD DUDE TITO! Omega vs. Tito starts the show off. Snapdragon and the V Trigger hits and Omega is out to make Tito look good here. OWA wins it and puts over Nigel and Danielson and ZSJ is better than them - so why does Kenny deserve him? He was once one of the best. Shida vs. Steel is up and this should be a fun one. Steel gets a corner uppercut and high knee and a basement dropkick. Shida beats her up on the apron and brags with her.

Steel fires back on the floor with stiff overhand and backhand chops alongside a forearm shot. Jumping knee by Shida! Forearm shot by Shida and then a buzzsaw kick! IRON OCTOPUS BY STEEL! VICTORY ROLL GETS 2! Kneeling Falcon Arrow before Shida locks on a wacky leg and neck submission to win. Well that ruled!

THE OPPS with Hook as leader are backstage and Bowens takes the lead on the mic and Hook puts him down. YAY ANOTHER TEAM THAT DOESN'T GET ALONG IN WRESTLING. Rascalz with Wentz and Dez are out to face Aaron and Austin Atlas. Nigel - I guarantee it was a joint decision by the Rascalz. Quick win with the pushing SSP. Reed vs. Knight is up. Reed gets a cutter on the rope during a tope attempt! Nice 2. Reed avoids a uranage after Don talks about how he and Kyle spent a bunch of money last night. Reed eats the Trishrana but avoids the UFO! Deadlift superplex from Knight is turned into a stundog with the rope! BLIND DIVE RAMP TO RING CUTTER! APRON CUTTER BY REED! SPRINGBOARD 450 HITS! 2.9 WITH THE FOOT ON THE ROPE! Crash Landing uranage wins it for Knight!

Divine Dominion cuts a promo on the roster and Maya World cuts an emotional promo about her late brother and winning the Owen for him and Athena wants to get out of the second round this year. Athena faces Tiara James and a low-pe hits for Athena before the alley oop into the Koji clutch wins. Ricochet calls out Takeshita for the International title and The Dogs are out to face The Bucks! Ramp crossbody by Matt! Double sunset and double sharpshooter by the Bucks! Flash crucifix by Clark gets 2.9 after absorbing a superkick party!  Assisted tombstone gets 2.9! BTE Trigger hits but the Meltzer driver is avoided. STICK SHOT HITS! SPEAR BY CONNORS WINS IT! NO 2.9!  SUICIDE SPEAR BY CONNORS! FULL CLIP WINS IT! Wow - this has been a fantastic show!

Dynamite recap. Tony and Nigel apologize for what Thekla said about Stardom and she insults them. She spits on her hand and rubs it on Tony before challenging their best for her belt. Julia vs. Persephone is up next. Bang Bang Gang does wacky shit with Dr. Juice GUNNS UP! Julia's pants make her look taller...less tiny? Apron electric chair facebuster by Persephone! Corner chop by Julia before a ramp powerslam by Persephone! STARLIGHT KID VIDEO PACKAGE! She's gonna face Thekla at Forbidden Door and she's beaten Thekla before! SPEEDBALL vs Jake Doyle! SCHOOLBOY POWERBOMB INTO THE APRON TO BAILEY! JAYSUS! Suplex toss by Doyle! Double yakuza kicks by Bailey! Sunset bomb gets 2 for Bailey. SSP gets 2.9! BULLHAMMER ELBOW BY DOYLE. Giant exploder and the black hole slam wins it for Doyle!

STP vs Death Riders is up and STP jumps them on the steps outside in this cool venue. PAC IS IN PANTS and Mox eats a knuck shot by ST! Claudio escapes bike racks and HURKS UP ST! Trish chops him AND HE TAKES THE MASK OFF AND FIRES UP! SPINEBUSTER TO TAYLOR! TRISH CHOPS THE BACK and Mox is just gobsmacked before MARINA ATTACKS TRISH in Zubaz and tells Claudio to swing her!

Lee gets a cool armbar and it's turned into a cradle for 2. CHAIN OF OFFENSE TO THE CORNER! GROUP DANCE TIME! STAIRWALKING WHITE NOISE BY CLAUDIO TO LEE THROUGH A TABLE! Christian XO gives Carlie knux and he nails Danny! DOUBLE CURB STOMP INTO A CHAIR FOR 2.9 THANKS TO MOX! Mox gets a turnbuckle and ST clubs him! SHIELD BOMB TO MOX THROUGH THE TABLE! MARINA GETS SURROUNDED AND SHE DON'T GIVE A FUCK!

They knock her down and take her shoes off and atomic whip her on glass and tacks! SHE GRINDS HER FOOT IN TO KICK ASS! Border city stretch by Lee before Danny turns it into the tamer! FLYING CUTTER BY MOX TO ST! CORNER ASSAULT TO ST! KNOCKOUT LARIAT BY PAC! PARADIGM SHIFT WINS IT! PPV-level match there - easy fiveboy!