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With workers and students at home, back-to-school shopping has depleted many tech supplies. But there are ways to find the devices and products you’ll need to work and learn from home.
由于工人和学生在家中,返校购物耗尽了许多科技用品。 但是,有一些方法可以找到您需要在家工作和学习的设备和产品。
By Eric Griffith
由 埃里克·格里菲斯
School shopping is underway and it’s getting difficult, if not impossible, to find certain items-especially electronics. A few months ago, there was a quarantine-driven need for webcams and certain household items, now it’s tech to outfit your at-home classroom.
学校购物正在进行中,要找到某些物品,尤其是电子产品,即使不是不可能,也越来越困难。 几个月前,对隔离带的需求是对网络摄像头和某些家用物品的需求 ,现在已经有了为您的家庭教室配备设备的技术。
High on the list of in-demand items are laptops; even schools can’t get them. The top three US laptop makers (HP, Lenovo, and Dell) have a combined shortage of 5 million laptops for school districts. Low-range PCs of any size and shape are also selling out, as are low-cost Chromebooks. Printers are also hard to come by, as are flight sticks controllers for your after-school Microsoft Flight Simulator needs.
笔记本电脑是需求最大的物品。 甚至学校也收不到。 美国三大笔记本电脑制造商(惠普,联想和戴尔)在学区总共短缺500万台笔记本电脑 。 各种尺寸和形状的低端PC以及廉价的Chromebook也都卖光了。 打印机也很难买到 ,课后Microsoft Flight Simulator所需的飞行杆控制器也很困难。
But are these items really impossible to find? It depends on where you look. You’ve probably heard friends lament their lack of availability, but when pressed on where they searched, they probably say one word: Amazon. We get it. Prime shipping means we tend to look there first, too. But there are a few ways to find the electronics, gadgets, and PCs you need right now.
但是,这些物品真的找不到吗? 这取决于您的外观。 您可能已经听过朋友对他们缺乏可用性的消息感到遗憾,但是当按下搜索位置时,他们可能会说一个字:亚马逊。 我们懂了。 优质运输意味着我们也倾向于首先去那里。 但是,有几种方法可以立即找到您需要的电子产品,小工具和PC。
准备支付更高的价格 (Prepare to Pay Higher Prices)
This is perhaps the only solution when it comes to the lack-of-laptops conundrum facing workers and students today. On an individual basis, it is easy to find a computer-as long as you’re willing to pay more for midrange or high-end devices. (As for buying in bulk, good luck.)
当涉及当今工人和学生面临的缺乏笔记本电脑的难题时,这也许是唯一的解决方案。 从个人的角度来看,只要您愿意为中端或高端设备支付更多的费用,就很容易找到一台计算机。 (至于批量购买,祝您好运。)
The upside to this approach rather than waiting for a laptop to show up from the school system is you own the computer outright, so you can do what you like to it. By paying more you probably bought a higher-end device that will last years, not just a school year.
这种方法的好处在于,您无需自己动手就拥有计算机,而不必等待便携式计算机从学校系统中出现,因此您可以根据自己的意愿进行操作。 通过支付更高的价格,您可能购买了将持续多年而不只是一个学年的高端设备。
The major downside: because you own it, you aren’t likely to get as much, or any, tech support from the school system or your office IT. Some may not let you even have access to select services. It’s worth a call to the tech people in charge before you plunk down the money.
主要缺点:因为您拥有它,所以您不太可能从学校系统或办公室IT获得太多或任何技术支持。 有些可能甚至不允许您访问某些服务。 在您掏钱之前,值得致电负责的技术人员。
翻新 (Go Refurbished)
Laptops and other devices break and get fixed, but sometimes people open a box, decide they don’t want it, and return it after minimal or no use. Those products, known as “refurbished” devices, are then resold by the manufacturer at a cheaper price. (Read all about them in 10 Things to Know Before You Buy Refurbished Electronics.)
笔记本电脑和其他设备会损坏并固定好,但有时人们会打开一个盒子,决定自己不想要它,并在极少使用或根本没有使用后将其退还。 这些产品称为“翻新”设备,然后由制造商以较低的价格转售。 ( 在购买翻新电子产品之前,必须阅读的十件事中了解所有这些知识 。)
安装购物交易工具 (Install Shopping Bargain Tools)
It’s possible that Amazon has the best customer service, and ( at least until COVID hit) the best shipping, but the best prices? Not always. There’s an entire ecosystem of software you can install, typically as a browser extension, that will tell you about better deals as you shop for products on Amazon or other sites. These tools may also help you find products Amazon and others no longer have in stock.
亚马逊有可能提供最好的客户服务,并且( 至少要等到COVID到货为止 )最好的运输,但是价格最好吗? 不总是。 您可以安装整个软件生态系统(通常作为浏览器扩展程序),当您在Amazon或其他站点上购买产品时,这将告诉您更好的交易。 这些工具还可以帮助您找到Amazon和其他不再有库存的产品。
Extensions like WikiBuy (owned by Capital One) and Honey (owned by PayPal) will display competitor results atop an Amazon page. Both are powered by users who provide the best prices they see. So you can shop at Amazon, and still buy things Amazon doesn’t have in stock (if anyone has it).
WikiBuy (由Capital One拥有)和Honey (由PayPal拥有)之类的扩展程序将在亚马逊页面上方显示竞争对手的结果。 两者均由提供最优惠价格的用户提供支持。 因此,您可以在亚马逊购物,仍然可以购买亚马逊没有库存的东西(如果有人有的话)。
There are also plenty of sites you can and should visit directly when seeking tech that may seem unfindable elsewhere. Do a search on desired laptop model at GoSale.com or Rakuten, and you’ll get a full list of options for each model, and a button to click to compare prices. Naturally, the results include several refurbs. But you may be surprised to see how many brand-new products show up for sale at places you never expected. With one search, I found laptops for sale at online camera stores.
在寻找其他地方似乎找不到的技术时,您也可以直接访问许多站点。 在GoSale.com或Rakuten上搜索所需的笔记本电脑型号,您将获得每种型号的完整选项列表,以及单击按钮以比较价格。 自然,结果包括多次翻新。 但是,您可能会惊讶地发现,有多少全新产品在您从未想到的地方出售。 通过一次搜索,我发现在线相机商店有待售的笔记本电脑。
商店晦涩的在线商店 (Shop Obscure Online Stores)
We’re conditioned in many ways to see Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Best Buy as the only places to shop for tech. Obviously, that’s not true. There are plenty of online outlets, whether you want to buy direct from the manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, Google, or Dell or utilize other retail outlets. The latter in particular might save you some money, and aren’t as likely to sell out instantly as the manufacturers and big-box stores are.
我们在很多方面都受到限制,以将亚马逊,沃尔玛,塔吉特和百思买视为购买技术的唯一场所。 显然,这不是事实。 有很多在线商店,无论您是想直接从Apple,三星,谷歌或戴尔等制造商那里购买,还是要使用其他零售商店。 后者尤其可以为您节省一些钱,而且不像制造商和大型商店那样立即售罄。
A few to consider are Newegg, TigerDirect, Micro Center, OutletPC, Discount Computer Depot, and that old West Coast staple, Frys.com. Don’t forget eBay, which is now much more of an online department store for thousands of resellers than an online auction house.
要考虑的几个是Newegg , TigerDirect , Micro Center , OutletPC , Discount Computer Depot ,以及旧的西海岸主要食品Frys.com 。 不要忘记eBay ,现在它比起在线拍卖行,更像是成千上万家转售商的在线百货商店。
订阅交易 (Subscribe to Deals)
There are sites with entire communities devoted to promoting the best deals online. Slickdeals boasts 10 million users who up vote the best deals. BrickSeek focuses on brick-and-mortar stores (the name comes from the origins of collectors seeking out Legos). Our own sister site, Offers.com, has links to savings every day on all products, not just tech, with plenty of coupon codes to use when making a purchase.
有些网站的整个社区致力于在线推广最佳交易。 Slickdeals拥有1000万用户,他们投票赞成最佳交易。 BrickSeek专注于实体商店(这个名称来自寻求Lego的收藏家的起源)。 我们自己的姐妹网站Offer.com拥有指向所有产品(不仅是技术产品)每天节省的链接,并且在购买时会使用大量优惠券代码。
You can also subscribe at some sites to find specific products as they become available. Even Walmart and Target will send you in-stock notifications on a lot of products. But branch out to the larger internet. Zoolert monitors products’ availability and lets you know immediate if one of your alert tracker items is in stock. NowInStock does the same. It has a special section on finding COVID-19-related out of stock items, but also can find your tech needs.
您还可以在某些站点上订阅,以找到可用的特定产品。 甚至Walmart和Target也会向您发送许多产品的库存通知。 但可以扩展到更大的互联网。 Zoolert会监视产品的可用性,并在有警报跟踪器项目之一存在时立即通知您。 NowInStock执行相同的操作。 它有一个专门的部分介绍如何查找与COVID-19相关的缺货商品,但也可以找到您的技术需求。
Sherin Shibu contributed to this story.
Sherin Shibu 为这个故事做出了贡献。
Originally published at https://www.pcmag.com.
最初发布在 https://www.pcmag.com 。
翻译自: https://medium.com/pcmag-access/need-a-laptop-printer-how-to-get-hard-to-find-electronics-9f9ee55e6ebe
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