"Decide" Helps You to Know When to Buy
With the tag line "No regrets", the new web site Decide helps you avoid what we call "Leo Laporte syndrome." If you are a regular listener to any of the Leo's TWiT network podcasts like "This Week in Tech" or "Mac Break Weekly", you know that the long standing joke is that as soon as Leo buys a piece of technology, a new model will be coming out the next week or so.
With Decide, you enter the product you are thinking about buying and Decide generates a page with links to online sellers, a Wait or Buy decision with reason, a prediction along with their confidence level. You can filter your results by category, screen size, processor, RAM, price or brand.
When we tried it, entering "Apple Macbook Pro" gave us a "Wait" for prices to drop $88 and a prediction that the price will be the same or go down slightly with 92% confidence. We could have then set an alert for that item via either email or Facebook.
There are some glitches though. When we entered the term "Mac Mini", Decide gave us a list of HP and Toshiba Mini laptops instead. We never could get it to bring up Mac Mini information. It turns out that Decide is concentrating on TVs, cameras and laptops for now. They hope to add more products soon.
If you've ever had buyer's remorse after buying a gadget, this is the web site for you. There is also a mobile friendly version so you can easily check on the Wait or Buy status of a product while at your favorite store.
