The deal of the day at 9to5Toys.com today is Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac for $100. That’s half off and the lowest price we’ve seen (and $21 off Amazon’s price). Dragon uses the same Nuance recognition that Apple uses in Mountain Lion but adds all kinds of extras as you can see in the video above.
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From 9to5toys.com (Twitter, Feed, Facebook), today:
Amazon is holding a “Farewell to February” sale on much of its digital game downloads for Mac and PC that includes over 850 games up to 75 percent off. Amazon is also offering an extra 25 percent off one item per customer with the checkout code “CAGROCKS”. While it might take you a while to flip through the hundreds of games Amazon has on sale, we decided to put together a list of some of the more notable Mac titles on sale today. Enjoy!
–Bioshock 2 | $9.99 (was $24.99)
–Call of Duty: Black Ops | $17.49 (was $49.99)
–Rezurrection DLC- $7.49 (was $14.99)
–Annihilation & Escalation DLC – $11.99 (was $24.99)
–Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | $9.99 (was $39.99)
–Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood | $7.49 (was $29.99)
–Assassin’s Creed II | $4.99 (was $19.99)
–Borderlands 2 | $29.99 (was $59.99)
–Driver San Francisco Deluxe Edition | $12.49 (was $24.99)
–Sid Meier’s Civilization V | $7.49 (was $29.99)
–Duke Nukem Forever | $4.99 ($19.99)
–RAGE: Campaign Edition | $4.99 (was $29.99)
–Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition | $5.99 (was $29.99)
–Prince of Persia (2009) | $4.99 (was $49.99)
–Dragon Age 2 | $14.77 (was $19.99)
You can check out all Mac games that are 70 percent off or more on Amazon.
From 9to5Toys.com:
Electronics retailer Fry’s now offers the 16GB iPhone 5 for $126 with a new two-year agreement.
The deal is $1 less than Walmart’s current sale, and it is the lowest price 9to5Mac has seen so far. Fry’s also discounted the 32GB and 64GB capacities to $226 and $326, respectively.
Check it out: Apple’s iPhone 5 at Fry’s stores
Walmart is continuing to slash price tags on Apple products this holiday season, as the global retailer just announced it is now offering the 16GB iPhone 5 for $127.
Walmart also cut the iPhone 4S from $89.97 to $47 starting today, with both smartphones sales subject to the usual two-year contract, and it further lowered the (update below) 16 GB third-generation iPad with Wi-Fi to $399. Walmart said its iPad deal would feature a bonus $30 iTunes card beginning Dec. 17, but all special rollback prices are in-store only.
Target plans to offer an Apple product sale, as well. It will discount Virgin Mobile’s Prepaid 16GB iPhone 4S from $449.99 to $399.99 starting Dec. 16, but the deal is only available at Target Mobile locations.
Update 1: Walmart’s story continues to evolve. We’ll continue to update.
Update 2: Walmart’s PR agency made multiple corrections to its original announcement today. While the first press release said the third-generation iPad would go on sale for $399 on Dec. 17, a later correction indicated the deal actually started today for the fourth-generation iPad. Now, this evening, Walmart’s PR agency has made another correction: today’s $399 sale is for the third-generation iPad. The rollback prices for the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S remain correct.
9to5Mac contacted Walmart directly today on multiple occasions to verify the sale prices advertised in the press release, but only its PR agency would comment on specifics and make subsequent corrections.
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Update: The stores appear to be back online now, and while the China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand stores have access to Red Friday deals, the others don’t. As for discounts, most products, including iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs appear to be on sale for in between 5% and 10% off. For everyone else, 9to5 readers can still get some of the best prices on Macs in the U.S. through our discount code at MacMall.
While we have not confirmed the exact reason, it looks like around 13 Apple online stores worldwide are currently down. Among them: China, Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
There is a good possibility Apple is updating these websites to reflect the ‘Year of the Dragon’ Jan. 6 Red Friday shopping event that is expected to land in China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and possibly the other countries with online stores currently down. We will keep you posted if we notice any changes when they come back online.