Our Best Deals for Strudents for Back to School 2013

Back to School 2013
Our Best Student Deals on the Stuff You Need
Every year the Back to School season brings with it some great promotions and specials on some of your favorite products. Here is out roundup of the best deals we've seen this Back to School season, on the products we know you can use...

1. MICROSOFT OFFICE UNIVERSITY 365 ($79.99): With Microsoft's new subscription based Office suite, you don't have to worry about upgrading whenever a new version comes out. For the period of the subscription, you will always gave access to the newest updates and versions. As an University or College student, the subscription is good for a full four years, rather than the usual one year commercial or home subscriptions, and as an added bonus, until September 28, every copy of Office 365 includes a year of Microsoft XBox LIVE Gold, which normally sells for $59.95 by itself.

2. ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE CS6 DESIGN & WEB PREMIUM ($375.00):  Although Adobe is in the process of switching to an annual subscription based system as well, for now the traditional Creative Suite of products remains available to students. With the Design & Web edition  of the software, you get access to many of the most powerful professional tools on the market for working with images, web sites, and printed pages, including tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, all for a fraction of the usual price - for students, this is $375.00, while the same software without the educational discount retails for almost $2000. 

3. TOSHIBA SATELLITE NOTEBOOK COMPUTER (from $599.00):  Toshiba's line of powerful, stylish consumer notebooks has always been reliable student computer, but for back to school this year, they have incorporated a feature that will be appreciated by many, though hopefully will only ever need to be used by few. They are including, with several models, a free upgrade from the traditional one year warranty to a three year warranty that covers not only defect or failure, but accidental damage as well. That means that your warranty will cover most damage originating from drops to spills to almost anything else unforeseen. At $599, the Satellite C50 includes a spacious 15" widescreen display, an Intel i3 processor, 6GB of memory and 500GB of storage - sufficient for any day to day computing needs. For the more demanding user, just over $100 more upgrades this to the L50 model ($729), which bumps the CPU to an i5, the memory to 8GB and adds an additional 140GB of storage space.

4. CANON PIXMA MX452 ALL-IN-ONE PRINTER ($44.99): With an automatic document feeder for easy scanning and copying, integrated AirPrint-compatible Wireless printing, and cost-effective high yield and ultra high yield ink cartridges, the Canon Pixma MX452 printer is a steal at $44.99. If you don't need wireless or the document feeder, its little brother, the Pixma MX2220 All-In-One printer is also available, for only $29.99.
 
5. EKG ETHERNET AND USB CABLES ($2.99 for the 7' model): EKG's motto is "Buy the Product, Not the Package", and they certainly live up to this, packing their cables in the most environmentally friendly manner we've seen yet, using nothing but recycled cardboard and twine. In addition, they support a variety of ecologically-minded initiatives, including the Arbor Day Foundation, who receive a percentage of their sales to help with their reforestation efforts. Available in a variety of cable types and sizes.

6. GREENSMART LAPTOP AND TABLET SLEEVES ($15.99-$37.99): Speaking of great eco-friendly products, GreenSmart's line of sleeves for MacBook and similar 13" computers, as well as for iPads and smaller tablets, are among the highest quality, most durable sleeves we've seen on the market, and are manufactured in part from recycled water bottles. They pride themselves in including "the right features in the right places", and their smart designs and non-scratch interior make them the perfect compliment to your new notebook or tablet.
 
7. LACIE PORSCHE DESIGN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE ($119.99): With 2TB storage, this small desktop hard drive provides plenty of room for storing media and backups without using a lot of your space or money. Compatible with any PC or Mac, it works well with any backup software (including Apple's Time Machine backup solution for Mac users). Also available in a 3TB version (LaCie Minimus @ $134.99) and a 1TB portable version (LaCie Rikiki @ $89.99).

Fun and Games

By popular demand, we have expanded our "Fun & Games" section with new and restocked titles, including the newly released Magic the Gathering Gatecrash cards. For MTG players, we have in stock Intro Packs ($11.99), Booster Packs ($3.99), and Fatpacks ($29.99). A full box of Booster Packs (containing 36 standard Booster Packs of 15 cards each) for $99.99.
We have also restocked the most popular Settlers of Catan titles, including the basic game box, Seafarers of Catan expansion, Cities and Knights expansion, the Settlers of Catan Travel Edition, and the spin-off game Merchants of Europe. Looking for a quick and fun variant without the need for the large board? We now have in stock the Settlers of Catan Dice Game Deluxe Edition.

SPECIAL... WHILE QUANTITIES LAST... PURCHASE SETTLERS OF CATAN OR SETTLERS OF CATAN: CITIES AND KNIGHTS AND RECEIVE THE RIVER EXPANSION CARDS FOR FREE!

Are you an Angry Birds fan? The world's number one mobile game has flown out from your SmartPhone screen to land right on your floor with University Games' Angry Birds Action Game. Contains one plastic pig, one plush red bird, one plush yellow bird, gigantic scoring mat, three wooden blocks, score pad and rules.We also have lots of expansions for this, letting you add black, white and green birds, more pigs, more blocks and more!

As if that wasn't enough, we have the Carcasonne Big Box 2012 Edition, containing the Carcasonne base game plus nine expansions, as well as a variety of portable Coffee Time dice games, Bepuzzled 1000-piece mystery jigsaw puzzles, the ever-popular Ticket to Ride board game, and more!

All this on top of our great selection of value priced PC and Console games, and popularf electronic game accessories from Razer and Mad Catz.

Want more? Let us know what you're looking for, and we'll try to get it in... More board games? More card games? Dice? Card sleeves and boxes? We're not sure what you're looking for, but whatever it is, we'd love to get it for you. Leave a comment with your requests and we'll see what we can do...

CES 2013

Intel's "Notebook Tree" at CES 2013

Computer Sales Centre staff recently visited the 2013 International CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show. What did we see? Well, the world's largest and most sophisticated televisions, self-driving cars, refrigerators that suggest recipes based on what is inside, $30,000 camera lenses, brain-wave controlled television remote controls, robots, and more. But also some great new products you'll be seeing at the store over the coming months, including new ceramic driver based portable speakers from long-time favourite manufacturer X-Mini, amazing tablets from and notebooks from our friends at Asus, the revolutionary G-Form iPad and iPhone cases from G-Form technology (which utilize an absolutely amazing compound that changes from pliable to rock-hard in response to impact), and much more. Watch here for announcements as new products arrive at the store!

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Welcome to the new blog for the UNB Computer Sales Centre. Here we hope to keep you up to date on goings on, events, new products, specials and other information of interest to our customers. Check in frequently and don't miss out on deals and products we have selected to help you with your educational, professional, and leisure needs!