On Sunday 14 Mar after lunch with church comrades, 5 of us led by Steven and Catherine went for a notebook shopping spree in Suntec City. At first, i wanted to park my car at Suntec, but after advice by Steven, i decided to swing to raffles city car park instead to avoid the hugh queue to get into Suntec car park, and the decision proved to be sound.
wow, never see Suntec so pack before, really peolpe mountain people sea, people no entry!! Everywhere is crowd, escalars, lifts, lobby, entrance and exit....every level from 1st to 6th, and the worst is the product and sale hall...ten of thousands of people.....once u entered, u got soak into the e-wave, consumers and sales reps are all busy engaging each other......must say that all sales reps are very enthusiastic and couretous with good products knowledge unlike u go to ordinary shopping mall to buy fashions, most of the sales executives not quite sure the range and features of the things they are selling......this is mainly because the incentives are different. The sales reps at the IT Show are all driven by handsome sales commissions.......they would engage you till you make up your mind.....
we shoped around at Toshiba and Fujitec, from low to high range, from smallest to 14 inch notebook with latest hardware and technology....with the advise by our dear IT expert friend Ka Fai and Steven.....we are armed with knowledge and resources....... and coincidentally bump into Doris who joined in the force subsequently.
The sales are very competitive.....the latest u enter the game with more people in your group, you stand to win the race as there is better bargaining power. After talking to more than 4 sales reps and applying "divide to conquer" tactic.....we managed to get the best price of some $1500 nett for the latest Toshiba Protege M900 with free Window 7, extra hard dics pwoer etc etc
The search for the place to install the hard disc power is like a refugee journey......everybody is in the rush.....but luckily the technicans there
were so professionally and prompt in their action....it took less than 10 min...so no complaints...In total, after nearly 3 hours' checking and comparing exercise, we bought 3 sets of latest Toshiba Portege M900 (u cant find the specs in their website yet, it is a higher range than M780) and one Toshiba mini notebook at S$810......and using UOB credit card enabled us to have a feee travel bag over S$2,000 purchase and 2 movie tickets (lucky dip) for less than $2K. Please see weblink to Toshiba products http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/portege/M780
Features of Toshiba Portege M900: Intel Coretm i3-330MMobile Intel HM55, Express Chipsetintegrated 802.11BGN2GB DD3, Memory320GB Hardisk Disk13.3 WXGA superview, Super Multi DVD Double Layer DriveNvidia Geforce G310M (ext 512MB), Built in camera, Built in card readerBlueToothWindows 7 Home Premium
Happily got it back home (brothers and sister were excited too) and get started to play with the great help of my IT colleagues/friends.......thanks alot to Alvin's unreserved support and assistance.....he is now the best IT mentor i can turn to........thanks very much!!
It is really a very good learning and fulfilling IT shopping spree.......1st time buying notebook for myself in my career.......would encourage friends to go and see for your self and experience the interesting IT show in Singapore, understand it is 4 times a year, and you will realise that there isnt any recession AT ALL........and the visit is very worthwhile especially you get your favourite product at best price!!
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