High-End 2-in-1 Laptops You Can Buy With PHP 175,000

The story on DOH’s call for bid submission of 4 high-end 2-in-1 laptops has gotten a lot of attention, especially for the fact that the budget is worth PHP 700,000USD 11,928INR 1,011,220EUR 11,361CNY 86,870. That is a whopping PHP 175,000USD 2,982INR 252,805EUR 2,840CNY 21,718 per laptop.

Granted that’s quite a large sum of money, we looked around to see what type of 2-in-1 laptops we can get for that amount, and here’s what we found out (with at least 10th-gen Core i5 processors).

Dell XPS 15 9575 2-in-1
15.6″ FHD+ (1920 x 1200) InfinityEdge Touch
Intel i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores)
16GB DDR4-2933MHz, 2x8GB
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6
Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2×2)
Bluetooth 5.1
Windown 10 Home Single License
SRP: Php144,900USD 2,469INR 209,323EUR 2,352CNY 17,982

Dell XPS 17 9700 Touch
17.0″ UHD+ (3840 x 2400) InfinityEdge Touch
10th Generation Intel Core i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores)
16GB DDR4-2933MHz, 2x8GB
1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6
Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2×2)
Bluetooth 5.1
Windown 10 Home Single License
SRP: Php169,990USD 2,897INR 245,568EUR 2,759CNY 21,096

Apparently, there are not a lot of 2-in-1 laptops that have a 15.6-inch display or higher that is available in the Philippines.

Lenovo has the ThinkPad X1 Carbon but that’s only available in 14-inch models (PHP 107k in Lazada). The HP Spectre x360 that we saw in Lazada is 9th-gen at PHP 137k while a 10th gen being offered by Galleon.ph costs PHP 160k.

Then, there’s the additional cost for Office 365 and other accessories (mouse, USB hub, etc) which we can peg at PHP 5k in total. Also, the standard warranty for laptops is just 12 months. The bid documents requested for 36 months so there will be an additional premium for that as well.

It looks like the IT guys in DOH were looking at the Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 when they outlined the specs for the requested laptop.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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5 Comments

Miss Call says:

3 years ago

“It looks like the IT guys in DOH were looking at the Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 when they outlined the specs for the requested laptop.”

Yes they were but they can not specify the brands for bidding because it’s against the law. So instead, they made it so specific so they can get the XPS. It’s like Sara saying she’s not running and is not actually campaigning when she is going around other localities.
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Zeus says:

3 years ago

if you check the next page of the document posted online, they were only trying to procure an 8gb ram variant with a 512gb ssd. Surely, it’s not any of those devices mentioned.
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Uap says:

3 years ago

actually, it says “at least” which means it can be up to 16gb but not less than 8gb.. that is what it means and not constraining to only 8gb..

Mr Postman says:

3 years ago

Better get a cheaper Predator Helios 300 with RTX30260 and 32BG ram just add 1TB NVME costing 120k only
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Pat says:

3 years ago

Looks like they’re trying to get Latitude 9510: https://www.dell.com/ph/business/p/latitude-15-9510-2-in-1-laptop/pd which is about ~92k starting price
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