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Here’s a great deal on an external hard drive that’s perfect for backups: A refurb 500GB My Book drive for $35 + $5 shipping.

newegg.com offers the factory-refurbished Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, model no. WDH1U5000N, for $34.99 with $4.99 for shipping ($0.08/GB). That’s $10 under our February mention and $42 under the lowest total price we could find for a new one. (It’s also the least expensive 500GB external hard drive we’ve seen.) It runs at 7200 rpm and features an 8MB cache. Note that newegg lists a 1-day Western Digital warranty, possibly in error.
Model Number: WDH1U5000N

Good news for last-minute shoppers via Dealnews: The Apple Store offers free shipping via next-day delivery with no minimum purchase required. That’s Apple’s best shipping discount this year. Sales tax is added where applicable. Customized items and gift cards are excluded. Orders of in-stock, non-custom configuration items placed by 1 pm ET on December 23 will arrive in time for Christmas.

From the Dept. of Daily Deals: A refurbished Mac mini for $429 with free shipping, which is about as cheap a price as you’ll find for the machine.

The Apple Store offers the factory-refurbished Apple Mac mini Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz Desktop, model no. MB463LL/A, for $429 with free shipping. That’s a $70 drop since our October mention and one of the best deals we’ve ever seen for a Mac mini. It features an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 120GB hard drive, two video interfaces (Mini DisplayPort and mini-DVI), five USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 800, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, Gigabit Ethernet, AirPort Extreme wireless and Bluetooth, and dual layer SuperDrive. A 1-year Apple warranty applies.

It’s Cyber Monday, so there’s a lot of good deals out there today. But these three deals in particular caught our eye:

• Logitech’s Squeezebox Radio — $149 at Amazon. The Squeezebox is a fantastic internet radio that looks and sounds great. It makes it dead easy to listen to thousands of online radio stations. Works great with Macs and Apple Airport networks (full review coming soon).  Normally $199, but on sale at Amazon for $149. This is a good deal. Recommended.
• Samsung 52″ 1080p 120Hz Widescreen LCD HDTV for $1,399 — 52% off at Amazon. Samsung’s big-screen HDTVs are some of the best available right now, but it’s difficult to choose the right one. The company has tons of models with slightly different features. There’s several models exclusive to Best Buy on sale right now, for example, but they tend to be crippled, offering last year’s tech, limited connectivity or slower refresh rates. But the LN52A750 52″ LCD HDTV at Amazon looks like a killer deal. This box is 1080p and has excellent connectivity — four HDMI ports, VGA, component and others, plus two USB (for watching MPEG movies off a thumbdrive). It’s also got a 120Hz refresh rate, which is much better than last year’s 60Hz. And it’s 52% off. The LN52A750 is on sale at Amazon for $1,399.99 with free shipping (that’s a $1,500.00 saving).
• Dell Inspiron Mini 10v — $279 at Dell Home. When it comes to netbook Hackintoshes, Dell’s Mini 10v is your best option. It’s a well-made little machine and thanks to new OS X distros, all the hardware works right out of the box (including WiFi). Dell Home offers the Inspiron Mini 10v for $279 with free shipping (that’s $119 off).