CDWOW are having a 24 hour sale - with €2 euro knocked off everything. With some Cds only €5.99 and chart cds now at €10.99 delivery included.

To get these great prices visit the CD WoW web site and then click on the UK flag in the top right corner and change the country to Ireland. No discount for UK customers - just Ireland. Sale started today Nov 11th at 10 am and ends at the same time tomorrow 12th November 2008.

Dyson bagless cleaners were seen as breakthrough technology when they first came out. The Dyson brand is seen by some as expensive - but with a 5 Year guarantee on every model - you can’t really go wrong. The old saying - “buy cheap buy twice” is definitely true. The 5-year guarantee, which applies to all cleaners bought in the UK and Ireland from 27 July 2006, covers both labour and machine parts but not belts and filters.

Electric Shopping have Dysons for sale with delivery in Ireland costing just €5 Euro.

At the time of writing this they had the following Dysons on sale -

The Dyson DC14 All Floors  €295 Euro;
The Dyson DC14 Allergy €315 Euro
Dyson DC24  €255 Euro
Dyson DC25 Ball  €290 Euro
The DC25 Animal Ball €304 Euro

Pixmania Ireland also sell Dyson Vacuums and delivery to Ireland is about €16 Euro. The DC20 and the DC16 Handheld were avaiable today . The Original DC19 can be bought for €210.

In UK there have been tests on vacuum cleaners by a well known consumer organisation which is renowned for it’s reviews and best buy surveys. Only 2 vacuums in the tests got top marks for cleaning performance on all surfaces - laminate, wood and carpet . These were the Dyson DC14 All Floors Upright and the Dyson DC24 Ball also an upright model.

Northern Ireland shoppers can get Dysons at Pixmania UK or Currys or Comet or Electric Shopping UK

Dorothy Perkins are running a special VIP week - with 20% off all orders . All you have to do is go to this VIP Sign up Page and enter your email address - the discount is applied automaticaly at checkout .

The  discount of 20% is available on purchases made  from November 7th  2008 to November 16th 2008. The only things not covered are Gift Vouchers - apart from that it is one fifth of EVERYTHING.

Delivery to Ireland , Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK is a reasonable £4 GBP for everyone.

If you are looking for a good low priced Digital Camera  - one of the best buys is the  Canon Powershot A470. It has features as good as many other cameras that cost 3 times more.

The Canon Powershot A470 is an affordable but very good quality versatile digital camera. Cheap does not always mean worse. It is available online at Pixmania Ireland for just €93 Euro plus €12.90 delivery - Total Price 105.90 Euro delivered to Ireland. It is available in Grey, Green and Blue.

Northern Ireland customers can get the Powershot A470 online at Pixmania UK for £77.60 GBP delivered. Northern Ireland residents should also be able to buy the Canon PowerShot A470 Digital Camera at Amazon - with free delivery - but they don’t deliver cameras to the Irish Republic.

It comes with a 32MB memory card instead of any internal memory.

The 7.1 megapixel camera also has a 38-132mm zoom range and six ISO settings between 80 and 1,600. There are ten scene modes with various exposure settings, so you can quickly alter the settings depending on the conditions.

It takes half a second to capture a shot, and can capture a photo every 1.5 seconds in regular mode, or one photo every 0.6 seconds in burst mode, where it continually shoot until the memory is full.

The LCD monitor is fairly good - but as with many cameras  it isn’t great in bright light. The digital zoom can be used when recording a video. While it’s not a very small camera -it  should fit in most pockets.

Miele are always coming out on or near the top of Best Buy tables for vacuum cleaners. In a recent survey in the UK by a well known consumer organisation - Miele had the top 4 vacuums out of 49 that were tested. They came out above  makes such as Hoover, Dirt Devil and  Electrolux .
Miele also came top in a vacuum cleaner reliability survey.  Miele might have a reputation for being expensive - but that is not the case with their vacuum cleaners .
Buying Miele appliances online in Ireland is fairly difficult - but we found one retailer called Electric Shopping that sell Miele vacuums with delivery to Ireland for just €5 euro per order. They also sell Dysons and lots of other electrical goods.

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Miele S4211 Vacuum Cleaner is one of the lower priced Miele models and is made specially for parquet and wooden floors but it also performs really well on carpets too. Available with delivery anywhere  in Ireland for around €258 euro from Electric Shopping

It’s a great choice bagged cylinder cleaner for any floor surface. It is compact and easy to store when not in use. Good for pet hairs and allergen retention. It is light and easy to move around.

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Laptops are getting cheaper and smaller all the time - but with all the various models and makes available how do you know which is the best laptop for you?
If it is value for money you want - but good performance at the same time - we can recommend the Acer Inspire One

This mini laptop or Netbook has come out very well in recent  laptop reviews and best buy reports. It came out with better reviews and resullts than the ASUS EEE PC . The Acer Inspire One is available with delivery to Ireland  from Pixmania Ireland

You can also get Acer Aspire One on Amazon with free delivery to Ireland

The Acer Inspire One is great for everyday computer tasks like  browsing the internet , word processing, spreadsheets.  It only has 512MB of Ram - but because it runs  the Linux operating system it doesn’t need as much memory as laptops running Windows Vista .  You won’t miss Windows if that is what you are used to -  the Linux interface is user friendly.

Processor : The Acer Aspire One is one of the first PCs to use Intel’s Atom processor, which has been specially designed for use in portable devices such as laptops where battery life is important.

The screen is bright and clear - better than some of the more expensive laptops . The Acer Inspire One weighs  less than 1kg - so it’s easy to carry around. Like many  mini-laptops, the built-in speakers aren’t great quality - but you can just use some good headphones if you want  to listen to music.

The basic model comes with  8GB of solid-state storage.  If you think you’ll need more, then you can opt for a 120GB solid-state drive. You can also get versions with 1GB of Ram and the Windows operating system if you want something more familiar (and more expensive)

Also worth considering would be the range of Asus Eee PCs . .  Available online with free delivery from Amazon

Buying washing machines online in Ireland is almost impossible. None of the major online electrical retailers offer delivery to Ireland on appliances such as washing machines or dishwashers. Stores like Currys, Dixons, Pixmania, Comet, Amazon , Boots , Empire Direct John Lewis, don’t sell appliances to Irish residents. Most don’t even deliver to Northern Ireland .
DID Electrical , Discount Electrical and Powercity are 3 Irish based retailers that will allow online shopping - but the prices and product ranges available are not great.

Most of us will end up driving to the nearest big electrical chain store or an indpendent local shop and get sold something based on how it looks or what the salesperson says. The sales people have targets to meet and some shops only deal with certain makes or brands. You could end up buying an expensive machine that may not perform as well as other brands. Why not use the services of Which to help you find the Best Buys in Washing Machines and almost anything else you can think of buying. They also tell you which one to avoid.
The Which web site subscription is available to UK and Irish residents. They have a 30 day trial offer for just £1. You might have trouble actually buying a washing machine online - but you can do all the research before you choose the best model for your needs and budget. The surveys , tests and reviews are very detailed. Which does consumer reports on a wide range of products - from cameras to Sat Nav, Cookers Fridges Dishwashers, MP3 players and more.

The iRobot Roomba is a  vacuum cleaner that hoovers  the floor by itself .  Basically - you just plug in the base station where the Roomba will return to when it needs charging - and you let it loose around your rooms to vacuum the floors for you.

Roomba Robotic Vacuum

There are not many places that sell the Roomba in Ireland - or even online . But you can BUY an iRobot Roomba 530 online here for around  €290 delivered to Ireland. ( Now back in stock for 2010. The roomba 560 is also available at a lower price.

You can alao get Irobot Roombas and spare parts for them online at Currys Partmaster - delivery to Ireland is just £6.99 -

Irobot Roomba is also available to buy online at Pixmania Ireland . There are various models available 530 560 555 563 - they are all pretty much the same basic Roomba with or without some of the extras.  You can also get a Scooba - which will wash the floors for you. That will be my next purchase. It has had mainly good reviews.

The Roomba 560 has additional features such as two virtual wall units, now called ‘lighthouses’ and a a scheduling function -  so you can get it to start cleaning  at a specific time of  day or night.

Similar robotic hoovers by Electrolux are selling for around €1000 Euro!

Review: I bought a Roomba 560 in November 2008 and have been really impressed with it .
The instructions supplied are simply and easy to understand mainly because there is very little to do with the Roomba, just charge it and its away to go.
I have a bigger than average house but Roomba easily copes with cleaning the whole down stairs, supplying about 2 hrs of constant vacuuming on one battery charge, it docked itself and after about two hours of charging was ready to go again.

I have a mixture of flooring types, Tiles, wood flooring and a few rugs - the Roomba does them all. Emptying the dirt  bin you can see that the Roomba has done a good job.
The Roomba easily navigates around the house- and does a better job of cleaning than I did - especially under beds

The “light houses” supplied are easy to set up, just put batteries in, decide where you want them and roomba does the rest.  The lighthouses act as sort of homing beacons for Roomba, confining it to one room before guiding it directly to the next, they also assist in getting roomba back to the charging station.

When i want to do upstairs - I just pick the Roomba up carry it upstairs and set it off, obviously it can’t get back to it charging dock (downstairs) so we leave it hoovering away until it runs out of steam, then pick it up and stick it back on the dock.

It is a brilliant invention - worth every penny.
It would be a great Christmas present for a loved one who usually does all the hoovering - but expect funny looks when you tell friends you bought your wife/husband/partner  a hoover for Christmas!

Irish Residents - buy your  Roomba Here

Also available in Ireland at Pixmana  -  SEE ALL ROOMBA PRODUCTS

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