PIKOM pc fair 2007 Part I

Wanted to blog about the pc fair earlier on but was busy preparing for my FIS mid-term test. Very hard subject. Yesterday I wanted to blog about it but suddenly I don't know why I was so sleepy, my eyes were so heavy that when I was resizing the photos it kept closing. lol... yesterday broke my record for sure. I slept around 9pm.

Anyway back to the topic. I went to the PIKOM pc fair with Ping and Florence on Saturday which was the second day of the fair. The fair is held on the 5th floor of permata car park. Well most fairs and exhibitions are held there anyway.

Layout plan for Kuching

Packs of people

Philips, NEC and many more brands.

When we arrived there we decided to park somewhere that is near to the exhibition hall. Again Ping was driving that day. She is trying to polish up her driving skills, since she hasn't driven for 3 years or more. She is a careful driver at the same time a reckless driver but we survived. "I'm a survivor!*" Flo drove her own car for she needs to pick up her younger bro later.

TOSHIBA Choose Freedom!

One of the Acer booth

The exhibition hall was packed with people. I felt like a sardine that are being squeezed into a small can together with my fellow mates. Lucky, the air-cond was working well so it wasn't really very humid in there but exhibition hall B was a disaster! No idea what is wrong with the air-cond was very hot in there! Lots of booths were set up, a total of 82 booths filled with electronic goodies ranging from laptops to cameras and pen-drives.

Buy this printer get free gifts such as Umbrella!

Canon camera booth (droolz....)

Disco area for the exhibition... nah joking all the woofer displays

There are a lot of great offers in the fair. A Samsung 19" LCD monitor cost MYR699! quite a bargain! A 2GB pen-drive (Kingston) will cost MYR 60 and its a real steal! Laptops and Printers are priced lower than usual too. Most people on that day bought printers. Canon printers came with a lot of free gifts. Ranging from bags to umbrella (depends on what type of printer you buy... buy cheap ones you don't go thinking you can get the umbrella ok...in your dreams you can! LOL!).

Anyone wanna sponsor me this Monitor? Pls..... XD

I LOVE KINGSTON!... I do really that is why I am using Kingston's Pen-drive

Hello....hello come come come.... all Kingston's products available here~!

I didn't really survey the canon cameras, well I was not planning to buy a camera anyway, so I had a quick browse.

NEC booth looks hot and stylish

Laptops comes in many different brands. You name it they have got almost all of the brands there. Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, and of course the list goes on.

Asus laptops

Twin Head... selling laptops

I was planning to get an LCD monitor. Dell and BenQ has great offers. But Samsung design is by far the best I saw (let us not compare it with Apple k... if apple comes in the pic all of them are down). Why did I rate Samsung having the best design? Simply because the design was very close to what we can get from an apple. Was just beautiful.

World's No 1 DLP Projector Brand .... BenQ

The best time to get real Knock down price is during the last day of the PC fair. Printers such as Canon goes as cheap as MYR150 or less. So if you want to get something for a real bargain, this is what you should do.

1. make sure you know what you want to get.
2. Plan your budget.
3. See when will the pc fair be held.
4. Go to the fair for the first or second day (up to you).
5. At the fair, take a survey to see where you can get the best bargain.
6. Once targeted, come back on the last day and knock down the price some more.
7. Go home feeling victorious!

Have you gotten any good bargains at the PC fair? =D
*Destiny Child - Survivor
The next PIKOM pc fair will be at the following dates and time

3 - 5 August 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	Penang International Sports Arena KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur Dewan Jubli Intan, Kluang Miri Indoor Stadium Lahad Datu
10 - 12 August 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	Persada Johor, Johor Bahru Central Square, Sungai Petani Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall Kota Kinabalu Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh
16 - 18 August 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	KB Mall, Kota Bharu Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu Mentakab
17 - 19 August 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	Star Parade, Alor Star Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar Dewan Merdeka, MP Manjung

30 Nov - 2 Dec 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	Penang International Sports Arena Persada Johor, Johor Bahru Kota Kinabalu Level 5, Permata Car Park Building, Kuching Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall
7 - 9 December 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur Central Square, Sungai Petani Terminal 1, Seremban Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh Mukah, Sarawak
14 - 16 December 2007 11:00 am - 9:00 pm	Centre Point, Kemaman Pasir Mas, Kelantan Manjung Kangar Dewan Suarah, Bintulu