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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…
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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.
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PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III)
Feb 20th
The last PIKOM PC Fair for year 2009 and I was unable to go. I was sick until the next Monday. I don’t like getting sick during the weekends. I always go to PC Fair although I didn’t buy anything. I like to go just to view what are the latest technology and offer that they have that relates to IT.
So this time I just searched the web for some info on what they have at PC Fair. Amazingly, it is very hard to find any blog or websites that really show or write about it. Anyway, I managed to find few blogs that have lots of pictures and that gave me a bit of info. I hope that I can get more info rather than pictures of the PC babes but I understand most of the blogs that I visited are blogs on photography. Anyway, I would like to thank this blog writer, “demon” from superwhite.cc and skychinstudio.com for the photos that makes me see the view around PC Fair 2009 III… thanks.
I’ve waited for the January’s PC magazine hoping that they will have more info on that PC Fair. Sadly the PC Magazine that I usually buy do not have any news about it, just 1 1/2 pages of PC Babes… so disappointing. Fortunately, I bought CHIP Magazine and there’s a write-up on about the PIKOM PC Fair. So, here I would like to thank CHIP Magazine for the info. Will try to make it for the next PC Fair, in April.
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PIKOM PC Fair is back…
Nov 27th
PIKOM PC Fair is back again. PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) is just around the corner. As usual, I received the postcard from PIKOM reminding me of the event.
Below are the venue, dates and time for PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III):
25-27 November 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Dewan Merdeka, Seri Manjung
27-29 November 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Kluang
Alor Star Mall, Alor Star – NEW VENUE
Terminal 1 Shopping Centre, Seremban
4-6 December 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Penang International Sports Arena (PISA), Penang
Melaka International Trade Centre (MITC), Melaka – NEW VENUE
11-13 December 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru
LG Car Park Exhibition Hall, 1Borneo, Kota Kinabalu – NEW VENUE
Dewan Suarah, Bintulu
8-10 January 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak
Hope that they will some interesting offer at the PC Fair this time.
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The PC Fair 2009 (II)
Sep 4th
As usual, I will try to make some time to go to PC Fair. So I went to PC Fair 2009 (II) with my youngest brother on Saturday.
PC Fair 2009 (II)
I don’t have any plan to buy anything except for my brother. He wanted to buy a thumbdrive. I didn’t bring my camera so I’ve used my brother’s camera phone, so the picture quality might not be that good. To me, it is fine.
From what I can see, this time P1 W1MAX doesn’t advertise as much as before. The most visible brand in the fair would be Kaspersky. They are basically everywhere… Because of that, you can see Jackie Chans’s face nearly everywhere. They have an area of their own beside the PC Guru area as well.
In front of the PC Guru show room they have this contest on why you are proud to be a Malaysian. Just take the note sheet and fill up the form behind and write down the reason you are proud to be a Malaysian. The question is “52 Reason To Be A Proud Malaysian” (is not actually a a question, but I think you get what I mean).
The first hall have been change to a different theme… The Online Games occupied the first hall. Most of the games are Chinese language online games so don’t really check it out. The thing I like about online games exhibitors are their booths. The have really nice booth and there’s people with the character’s costume.
Same as the previous fair, the 2nd hall occupied the notebooks and they have put on a notice that the audio hall have been change to the end of 5th hall.
So we continue our journey in search of thumbdrive. When we reach the lower level halls, we realize that the price of the thumbdrive is nearly the same as outside. Anyway, we are there so might as well that we purchase it.
Microsoft have a few cool thing that they offer but to me still not cheap enough. hehehe…. Still love to visit steelseries booth although I’m not so into computer gaming.
One of the offer that I’m interested in is A4Tech G6 Saver Wireless Desktop that cost RM79. It comes with a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse 2.4GHz frequency (very fast…) For a combo it is very cheap and the specs is super cool. Check out the images below:
At last I saw something that I’ve been wanting for quite sometime… The Kingston’s Terra Cotta Warrior Limited Edition flash drive… For 4GB it cost RM69. For me it is worth it as I collected Kingston’s Limited Edition collection. My brother bought an 8GB DataTraveller 100 for RM50. As I’ve told you that the price is not that much different if you buy it at the shop. Will blog more about my Limited Edition Kingston’s flash drive collection. There’s also the 32GB (RM219) and 64GB (Rm459).
As usual, Kingston will have this lucky draw each time you buy a Kingston product for more than RM30 if I’m not mistaken. So I went and queue with my brother. I got a Kingston tote bag and my brother got a Kingston’s keychain. I already have 3 of those bag. I think it is my luck with bags… 
At the last 5th hall, is where they put the broadband provider and the audio thingy… This time the broadband provider not as aggressive as before. Even their booth are smaller than before. I’ve just got to know that my friend took DIGI wireless broadband and to her that it seems that the coverage is quite bad in her area.
Celcom Broadband introduce their new modem design. The Limited Edition Celcom Broadband MTV World Stage USB Stick for only RM249 (marketing style pricing, they can put RM250 but RM249 looks a bit cheaper I think. Hehe…) and you’ll get 2 MTV World Stage passes (with selected packages). The modem looks very cool… and the price of the modem is cheap too.
Epson organise a recycling campaign (it is part of the e-Waste Recycling Campaign by PIKOM and the Department of Environment) which they will give you a RM10 voucher in exchange with your old PC, printer, laptop or monitor of any brand and condition. The problem to me is that most visitor doesn’t know about this and to bring the PC or printer to PC Fair is a bit troublesome to me and RM10… oh please… but overall the campaign is good for the public awareness on recycling their IT products, at least they do something to help protect the environment, right?
This time the PC Fair layout is a bit different compared to PC Fair 2009 (I) and I think it better that way as the visitor won’t get bored to the same layout for each visit.
Went back straight after that.
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PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (II)
Jul 23rd
PIKOM PC Fair is back again…
Below are the details of PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (II):
31 July – 2 August 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
- KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur
- Village Mall, Sungai Petani – Kedah
- Dewan Perbandaran Taiping – Perak
- Batu Pahat Mall, Batu Pahat – Johor
7 August – 9 August 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
- Penang International Sports Arena, Penang – Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
- Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka – Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir
- Sabah Trade Centre, Kota Kinabalu – Sabah
- Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan – Pahang
13 August – 15 August 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
- KB Mall, Kota Bharu – Kelantan
- Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu – Terengganu
14 August – 16 August 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
- Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru – Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru
- Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak – Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh
Can’t wait to go… Hopefully my salary is out at that time. This time I can’t go there straight from office because I’m working in Port Klang now. Have to go on Saturday I guess…
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Wireless Broadband at PC Fair 2009 (I)
May 10th
Sorry that I don’t really have much post recently as I’m very busy with my son’s “aqiqah” and my father was sick. Anyway, just a short post on the Wireless Broadband service provider at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I).
The war on wireless broadband at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) is getting bigger. They have booth at both upper and lower halls and their booth are massive.
P1 W1MAX
Always the one that I will expect some new thing or changes from them. P1 W1MAX applies the same marketing technique that they used last year that is the money booth (actually I’m not sure what it is called). After you sign-up to any of their package, you will have the chance to get into the money booth (you can check the image below) and need to catch as many paper money that you can get when they started blowing air into the booth.
They said that inside the booth there is one RM5000 paper money inside and that is the highest value. Anyway, after you did just that, you will entitled a deduction of your subscription for their service from the total paper money value that you’ve collected.
P1 W1MAX Wiggy
Before, I was wondering when will they have their own portable modem and this time P1 have reached my expectation. The new device is called “Wiggy”. Yeah… it is a portable modem from P1. No SIM card is needed not like other service provider as it just received signal from the Wimax transmission. The package that comes with it is RM149 (12 months contract) and speed for up to 10Mbps speed and 10GB data transfer usage. That is really cool. The price is a little bit to high for me but it is suitable for anyone with heavy Internet usage and downloads. The first payment will be as follows:
- WIGGY Portable Modem Fee: RM299
- Registration Fee: RM100
So the total will be RM399. Activation fee for RM60 will be charge in the first bill. Wish that they will have a cheaper package and I don’t mind with a lesser speed, maybe 5Mbps for RM90 will be great.
They have a package with a netbook as well. You can get an Acer Aspire One Netbook for free when you sign up for WIGGY with a 24 months contract (only with selected credit card). You need to pay RM459 upfront and RM149 monthly for 24 months.
Celcom Wireless Broadband
I don’t want to touch much on Celcom. I think they have the most sales people around PC Fair and some of them I’m met at the Celcom Wireless Broadband Roadshow. Celcom does not have any special promotion for their Wireless Broadband service. The one that I know of is RM250 for the Vodafone modem (no contract) and you need to subscribe to one of the wireless broadband package.
Maxis
The largest or the most booth for wireless broadband service provider. They have a lot of sales people as well. From only RM88 a month for Maxis postpaid customer. You can see more details from the image below.
From 88 a month if you’re a Maxis postpaid user. The payment is only for 1 year, after that you will have to pay RM118. No contract. Just return the modem once you want to cancel the subscription. The reasons that I do not want to subscribe to Maxis is because it only gives you 3GB data transfer usage and so far the coverage is not that good around my area as I’m using Maxis postpaid line and so far the coverage is not that good.
This is a short post that I can write about the Wireless Broadband Service Providers at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I). Sorry for the late post.
Note: Most of the promotion above are for PC Fair only.
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About PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I)
Apr 26th
This time PIKOM PC Fair is better compared to the previous fair. Actually it is amazing. I went on Friday after work and Saturday to accompany my brother to purchase a notebook.
Although I didn’t manage to cover all the booth there because of the time constrain (actually I can’t stand the crowd) but from my view, it is a very good event this time.
PC Fair upper halls
Like PC Fair 2008 (III), Intel have their own hall called PC Guru to explain more about their line of new products. It was really cool to see the multiple screen preview.
On the other side of the hall was the “R U Sony?” event. I’m not really sure what it is all about but from what I know of, it is the preview of their latest product and the reason that I don’t want to find out about it is that the queue is very long.
The first hall now have all the wireless broadband service provider. The largest will be Maxis and Celcom of course. The offer for Maxis Broadband is RM88 with modem without contract for Maxis postpaid user. Celcom Wireless Broadband offered RM250 for the Vodafone modem only with no contract if you apply the D68 or D98 package. Will write more about the wireless broadband at PIKOM PC Fair in future post.
This time they do not have the hall for all the audio devices. I’m not sure why, but they replace it with notebooks. So, the hall of audio devices became the hall of notebooks. The price is really cool, especially from HP. I love HP notebooks.
Here is where my brother bought his notebook, the “HP TouchSmart tx2″. Damn cool device. My dream notebook… Sigh… Will make a review on that machine soon. Anyway, after waiting so long for the notebook, we continue to another hall that have all the big players in the IT industry same as the first hall still in the notebook category of vendors.
One of the obvious thing is that there are less PC Fair Babes around this time compare to before, but there are more photographer with their DSLR camera around. Hehe… no comment on that…
PC Fair lower halls
After all the hall above, we went down. Here they have the small vendor most of it from all over Klang Valley. Compare to the previous fair, this time there are less booth that sells notebook skin but more on the other accessories such as cooling pad, headphones, mouse and lots of notebook bags. Yeah, there are lots of notebook bags everywhere. From branded notebook bags such Golla to a RM35 bag, from backpack to trolley bag you can get it there.
Booth from Inter – Asia Technology Sdn. Bhd. promoting the “steelseries” (professional gaming gear) nice too. They have these gaming gear that are really cool especially the “World of Warcraft” series. I’m not so into the PC gaming nowadays but all those gears are really cool and it makes me like want to go to the gaming world again. From mouse, mouse pad, headphones and keyboard all is really nice to use. The mouse and keyboard from the “World of Warcraft” is really cool and it is really expensive.
There are a few booth that sells GPS and it seems like there are more of them this time compared to the previous fair. There is one booth that have my attention, it sells solar panel charging device. You can charge your handphone, digital camera, etc. under the sunlight or just normal light or you can charge the solar panel charger and you can charge you gadgets later even without sun light or any light at all.
At the end of the hall there are still some booth by wireless broadband service provider. I bought my Celcom Vodafone modem and subscribe to the Celcom Wireless Broadband. I got the modem for RM240 with no contract and additional RM98 for the first month subscription. That is good for me although not as good as what my brother got at the Celcom Broadband Roadshow.
Summary
Overall PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) is great. Hope it will continue to be like this and even better. The same thing that I realize is that there are more booth on broadband services and they hire a lot… I mean a lot of sales people… They are everywhere when you pass by their booth and the booth are freaking big.
They have booth on upper and lower hall. It seems that the wireless broadband service providers are really serious on selling their services. I hope that some of them will make their service better before really promoting it.
Purchase
At last what all of us purchased from the fair:
Myself: Notebook cable lock, USB LED light, clip-on microphone, Celcom Vodafone modem and subscribe to Celcom Wireless Broadband (D98: 3.6 Mbps)
My brothers: HP TouchSmart tx2.
Our family friends: WD External hard drive.
My brother collected a free gift from PIKOM because of his purchase that are above RM300 and I forgot to collect mine. He got a 2GB PIKOM USB thumbdrive (see image below).
Share your experience at any PC Fair in Malaysia.
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PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I)
Mar 30th
I still didn’t receive the invitation postcard from PIKOM for PIKOM PC Fair 2009. Anyway, before it’s too late and you ended up using all your salary, it is better that I start informing you about the first PIKOM PC Fair for the year.
Just for your information, PIKOM PC Fair usually will be held 3 times a year that is in April, August and December and it is usually on the first or second week of the month for the event in Kuala Lumpur.
Below are the details for PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I):
3 – 5 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
· Permata Car Park (Level 5), Kuching – Sarawak
· Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan, Sandakan – Sabah
· Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan – Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Pahang
· Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak – Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh
10 – 12 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
· KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur
· Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru – Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru
· Village Mall, Sungai Petani – Kedah
· Dewan Masyarakat Tawau, Tawau – Sabah
17 – 19 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
· Miri Indoor Stadium, Miri – Sawarak
· Sibu Trade & Exhibition Centre, Sibu – Sarawak
· Penang International Sports Arena, Penang – Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
· Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka – Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir
24 – 26 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
· Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar – Johor
That’s about it. All the venue, dates and time that the PIKOM PC Fair will be held this April throughout Malaysia.
This time I will be going on the Saturday with my brother as he wanted to purchase a notebook and accessories for it as well. We want to sign-up for the wireless broadband. I might be subscribing to Celcom Wireless Broadband but we shall see what the others have to offer, then I will decide. I might be going after work on Friday just to check it out because on Friday usually it won’t be that much of people around and you will have much more space to ask and to survey around. On the Saturday I can just come and make the purchase.
What might be the trend for this time? Last year PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III) on December, it is more on notebook skin and the accessories. I’ve got the feeling that this time the trend is still more on notebook/ netbook because it is much more affordable now compared to few years back and that is the trend right now, more people have a notebook nowadays compared to desktop (I think).
What do you think? Feel free to comment.
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PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III)
Dec 17th
Sorry that I cannot post this during the weekend as I still didn’t have an Internet connection at home.
So, it might be too late to write about the offers that they have at the PIKOM PC Fair so I will tell part of my experience on my visit.
As usual I will go to PC Fair on Friday after work. This time I went alone as my partner in crime is on leave.
I noticed there are few new marketing style that some of the exhibitor used and it is really interesting. It is new in PC Fair to me. Before I continue, for those who are looking for pictures of the PC Fair Babes, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Recently I can see a lot of these people who is walking around with their big DSLR camera and taking this “PC Fair Babes” pictures. Sometimes it makes me sick. It’s their way of enjoying the fair I think or maybe they have some other plan. Whatever…
This time I don’t really check out the fair as I was really on a hurry (my wife working night shift, need to get back a bit early). Anyway, I got back at 9 p.m. (luckily my wife is in a good mood that night).
It started with something new from Intel. They have a room to introduce a few of their latest products and they called the session “PC Guru”. I’m looking forward to see the Packet 1 (P1) booth as there’s a lot of their
The other halls on 3rd floor have the same exhibitor as before and I will skip all that. My interest is more towards the 1st floor halls where all the very hot action is going on. Nah… more vendor and cheaper price. Here you need to be careful of low quality items as everything are cheap. Here is where all the wireless broadband service provider being put together.
Before I forgot, there is a new company (I think) that have this so called new technology on PC sharing. They called it “K-One Multi PC System”. The system shared the main PC resources and there is this device that split it to become another set of workstation. I’m not sure how cost effective it is, but it looks cool. For further info just call the numbers on the flyer and don’t forget to mentioned my blog address. Haha…
Anyway, I bought 2 8GB Kingston thumbdrive and managed to get a bag and a handphone pouch from the lucky draw that they have. They have this competition, just checkout the scanned form below. You can visit their blog at www.kingston-blog.com and post the pictures that you took during PIKOM PC Fair or anything that related to Kingston and/or Kingston products and post it in Kingston’s blog, you are entitled to win some prizes. Just check out the blog la… Valid until 21st December 2008.
The “Kingston Go Green & Win” is a different competition than the “blog” competition.
The most revealing product type that is sold at the PC Fair this time is the notebook skin. Yup! One of the biggest local brand would be the VEGE. You can check out their product at www.vege.com.my. Unfortunately that I do not have a notebook. I think that is the trend nowadays and there is more people using notebook now compare to a few years back.
In the last hall, near to the exit, they have all the broadband and wireless broadband provider. P1 have this air chamber that you need to collect as much of fake RM notes. I’m not so sure what is the promotion that they are doing because too much of disturbance. As I walk around that area, there are a lot of agent for the broadband provider everywhere. So, I can’t really concentrates on what is happening around that area.
Anyway, when I pass down the MAXIS booth, a sales person manage to persuade me to change my prepaid Hotlink line to MAXIS postpaid. It was free anyway.
Above are some shots of the booth that I remembered to take before I left.
It was cool this time. Can’t wait for next year PIKOM PC Fair in April… I think… haha.
