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PIKOM PC Fair 2010 II… My 1st VBlog!
Aug 30th
PIKOM PC Fair 2010 II.
This time I decided to do a vlog for this event. This is the my 1st time I’m doing a vlog and it was quite funny.
The angle and everything doesn’t seems OK to me. Need some improvement I guess.
Anyway, do check out the video and below is some write-up on the event.
Not much of new things that me and my friend, Thristhan can find there.
From what I can see, there’s few booth that sells backup battery pack such as the one below (from Cooler Master). Some of it are like sleeves which you can put your iPhone in it and it will give your iPhone a longer battery life. As for GPS, there’s not much of it either.
There’s also few netbook that are WIMAX ready. So, if you have a P1 W1MAX account, you can access it anywhere (within the coverage….) without any modem. A particular brand that I can see is msi.
Decided to sign up with Maxis wireless broadband after I tested their service using my friend’s account. You can checkout my review of the service using my friend’s account.
Hope that you enjoy watching the video. Do give some comment on it as it is my first vlog.
PIKOM PC Fair 2010 II is here!
Jul 16th
Yup! PIKOM PC Fair is back. Just received a postcard from PIKOM.
To see the details on PIKOM PC Fair 2010 II click on the postcard above.
Will be going this time. Got something in mind to buy.
Going to survey on wireless broadband. Want to change to some other wireless broadband provider. Hoping to get good deals and lots of goodies.
See you there…
Read Malaysia 2010 – Malaysia International Book & Education Fair!
Jun 4th
Did you missed Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2010? Fear not, Read Malaysia 2010 is here.
Read Malaysia 2010 – Malaysia International Book & Education Fair is here.
Below are the details on the event:
Date: 4th to 13th June 2010
Time: 11:00 am to 10:00 pm.
Venue: Malaysia International Exhibition & Convention Centre (MIECC), Mines Resort City.
Estimated to have more that 200 exhibitors that includes publishing houses, booksellers, educational institution, overseas educational centers, academic school, colleagues and universities. Organized by MINES Event Management Sdn Bhd, it is a little different from the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2010, Read Malaysia 2010 includes colleagues and universities in the exhibition as well.
One of my favorite publisher, TrueWealth will be there. Hope that I can make it to the fair.
The PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I!
Apr 30th
Went to the PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I, with my wife and my colleagues. A bit late posting this post. Toooo busy with work.
My colleague wanted to purchase a notebook and I wanted to purchase a netbook for my wife for her birthday and our anniversary.
So, for my side… the plan is to get my wife to PC Fair without her knowing that I wanted to buy a netbook for her. So I told her that I wanted her to accompany me while I’m waiting for my colleague to come. So she followed me and we meet my colleague at the Conference Hall.
PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I
Back to the PIKOM PC Fair. What I can see, Kaspersky still aggressively promoting their product. You can see Jackie Chan’s face nearly everywhere at the fair. Same goes with Intel and their PC Guru hall.
As for the halls arrangement, I can see that they’ve put back the “Audio Hall” back to where it is before. I’m not sure about the previous PC Fair, but in August last year, they’ve changed the “Audio Hall” to “Notebook Hall”. I usually skip this hall as I’m not interested in PC audio that much but I took some pictures.
Was checking out the Toshiba netbook for my wife at the Conference Hall. Looks cool. One of the model, you can even insert the SIM card for the wireless broadband. The DELL netbook design was cool too but it didn’t attract me that much.
The next hall have all the big brand including such as HP, Sony and HTC. So I went to the HTC booth. Was so into HTC HD2 but it lack a feature that I like to use, that is the front camera for video call. I think most of their new line of phones don’t have that feature. Can’t wait for HTC EVO to be available here. Anyway, I went and checkout the HTC HD2 and HD Mini. Very tempted to have it.
Went to the HP booth after that to checkout a notebook for my colleague. The deal was great, affordable price with very high specs. As for quality, HP and Compaq are not that bad at all. So my colleague got herself a Compaq Presario CQ41-188TX for RM2199 with 3 years warranty (under my advise which I’m not really sure what she wants).
Present
Went to the ASUS booth and got my wife a netbook and she couldn’t believe it when I told her that I bought it for her. The netbook is actually a present for her birthday and our anniversary (1 present for 2 occasion – save a bit, hehehe…). Thought wanted to buy her the ASUS Eee PC 1008P Karim Rashid Edition but she told me that she don’t need a high-end netbook. Just a simple netbook so that she can surf the Internet (especially Facebook). So I bought for her the ASUS Eee PC 1001P and add another 1GB RAM for just RM1249 with all the free gift (biasa lar…). Actually all these purchases was on our second round as for the 1st round I usually survey the price and the free gifts.
Sometimes some of the great offer are for new model of PC and notebook, so we’re still not sure on the market price that is why it is important for me to survey the price around PC Fair itself.
I realize that this time the PC Fair don’t have much of these models or they always call PC Fair Babes compared to last year’s PC Fair but still there’s lots of these so called photographers came for these girls. I was quite tired because I’m actually looking for too many things for the office and myself so there’s not much time for me to go around and check out the fair.
Anyway, I got myself a 500GB Western Digital Passport Elite for RM312. Not to mention on the free gift that we’ve got for this PC Fair
Summary
Overall, the PC Fair was great. The bargain and the free gift was good as well. Microsoft do have some great offer for their PC accessories. I bought a wireless mouse that cost me RM49. The only thing is that I only received this “car fragrance” thingy from PIKOM for any purchase of RM300 and above. Last year they gave a thumbdrive… that was a great free gift.
Purchase:
So here is the list of what all of us purchase during the PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I.
Me: 500GB Western Digital Passport Elite, ASUS Eee PC 1001P (for my wife) and Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3000.
My Colleague: Compaq Presario CQ42-188TX
The 1st PC Fair of the year, PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I is here!
Apr 10th
The PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I is coming. Before you start spending your March salary (maybe you already did), I think it is better that you keep aside for PIKOM PC Fair 2010 I. Been waiting for this PC Fair as I was unable to attend the previous PC Fair.
Anyway, below are the details of PC Fair 2010 I:
Date & Time: 2 – 4 APRIL 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru, Johor
Dewan 2020, Kangar, Perlis
Village Mall, Sungai Petani, Kedah
Batu Pahat Mall, Batu Pahat, Johor
Date & Time: 8 – 10 APRIL 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
KB Mall, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu
Date & Time: 9 – 11 APRIL 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
Penang International Sports Arena (PISA), Penang
Melaka International Trade Centre (MITC), Melaka
Date & Time: 16 – 18 APRIL 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan, Pahang
Dewan Perbandaran Taiping, Taiping, Perak
Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Kluang, Johor
Date & Time: 30 APRIL – 2 MAY 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak
Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar, Johor
Permata Car Park, Kuching, Sarawak
Sibu Trade & Exhibition Centre, Sibu, Sarawak
Dewan Masyarakat, Sandakan, Sabah
Date & Time: 7 – 9 MAY 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Venue:
Dewan Merdeka, Seri Manjung, Perak
Dewan Suarah, Bintulu, Sarawak
Miri Indoor Stadium, Miri, Sarawak
1 Borneo, LG Car Park Exhibition Hall, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Dewan Masyarakat, Tawau, Sabah
Planning to buy a netbook for my wife and an external harddisk for myself. Going to survey for some wireless broadband service provider as well. Not happy with the one I have now.
