Laptop Hunters: It all comes down to price!

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Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Excellent
job. I really enjoyed what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it.
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laptop buyers should know how to pay for the quality, not for the brand name. also, smart buyers do buy laptops whose specs are “swak” or fitted to their budget.

i recently bought an asus k40ae laptop and it was a “big bang for the buck”. i am so happy that it can play street fighter 4 fine.

the cheapest brands today are acer, asus, emachines, msi and lenovo. the mentioned brands offer great quality for the cheap price.

masyado tayong brand-conscious, dapat alisin natin yan colonial-mentality. patronize our own and help build our country. sa price ng MAc, i can have many laptops for the other brand which is nice too

for a cheaper alternative yet with quality performance… im sticking with acer…

my bad.. dells quad core laptop was unveiled just this april 12, 2009 not august 12.. as for the market launching maybe autumn this year

It should be cheap + good after sales. Lahat yan galing Taiwan or China ang components. I chose Acer, kasi kapitbahay namin ang service center. I once had a problem in restoring to factory settings, I just went to the service center and they did it for free. Pag-HP or Dell ang katabi kong service center yun din siguro bibilhin ko.

I was in the hunt for my 1st notebook for the past 3weeks. on the 3rd week, i plunged in & get an HP Pavilion dv5. why? because its an HP. hehe.. :P i really like how it looks. simple yet elegant.

before that, i was able to use a colleague’s NEO laptop but was not impressed by its build quality (no offense meant to NEO users here, i do love how it performs).
i was able to use an MSI laptop as well. this one’s just like NEO but with a better customer aftersales support i suppose. & its really bang for the buck. my brother got his 14.1″ C2D T5800 2.0GHZ, 4GB DDR2 800MHZ mems, 160GB HDD, Intel X3100 builtin graphics,wifi for P26,000. i think its much lower now.

I’m inclined to agree:

“Indeed, this is essentially the argument that Mac fans offer when confronted with the idea that Apple’s machines are too expensive. Sure, they say, Macs might sometimes induce sticker shock, but that doesn’t mean they’re inherently much more expensive. It’s just that they include a lot of high-quality components as standard features, making for much more powerful machines.”

From: http://www.slate.com/id/2215267/

Great update yuga. Todo na pala mag-advertise sa states ang microsoft ngayon. Neo din gamit ko. I just read somewhere else na clevo daw pala gumagawa nun. Pumunta nga ako sa site nila to check kung totoo nga sinasabi nila.

Here is my neo elan 3103 i bought last week.
http://neo.com.ph/neoelan.aspx
Here is the same laptop under clevo name
http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo.asp?productid=122

Trusted naman clevo sa states kasi sila din gumagawa ng sager notebooks dun pero may bad reputation lang talaga tech support ng neo dito sa pinas.

the third ad is out…and MAC if for kiDs…lol…they end up buying a Sony…

ok from my experience sony is the real deal.. i just bought a vaio vgn-fz140e like 6 months ago and its serving its duties well.. man tatlong araw nang nka on without shutting it down its still running..well kasi malaki ung built in fan nya and its on top of a twin fan swiss gear chill pad i just bought.. sony is very reliable, entertainment pal and a workhorse dont forget its vaio so bragging rights peeps… money well spent… as for HP its very innovative, beefed up RAM and harddrive and stylish in their own american way.. I bought a tx2110us tablet for my fiance weeks ago and heck look at all those goodies bluetooth, swivelscreen, touchscreen and finger print reader and ofcourse its HP.. As for you apple lovers these are entirely for bragging rights.. Yeah they are stylish but heck they had weak ram and harddrive plus expensive. Im thinking of buying a mac air pero I read a news 2 days ago READ THIS MAC LOVERS.. that asus (a taiwanese computer company) is the one making apples macbooks??!! what the heck all those money for a made in taiwan laptop.. ( ofcourse mac will deny it) im not taking any chances dawg.. by the way americans still loves Dell I dunno why.. they are ugly and unreliable laptops. these are the laptop trend here in south beach miami my friends..

been using a cheap but really functional neo basic with win 7 beta installed. neo rocks (well at least for me)

@Anne. Get a Thinkpad X200. A little more than your budget, but worth it!

… sipag ni boss, may post parin

cheaper maybe if apple have a marketshare like pc
(cross fingers pati toes hehe)

they are too expensive…..

It’s the price indeed. If I had that amount, I’d go for other brands with higher specs than a Mac.

@ BrianB
– Yeah, Apple has good service, but the warranty is expensive, man. That’s 10-12k every 2 years for AppleCare.

I have a 55k budget and choosing between a Macbook White and a Thinkpag X61, but I’m going for the latter because it’s more durable and comes with 3 years warranty WITHOUT the $200 Applecare.

Based on the video, it’s a VAIO FW series.
On the Sony website, it starts at USD 839.99.
Since the mother and son was talking about Blu-ray, I think they got a mid-tier, if not premium VAIO FW model. In Amazon, the FW model with Blu-ray costs USD 1,179.99.

HP is No.1 so I’m not surprised in the ads the consumer finally chose a HP NB, LOL ~~

Here’s a link to the third ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qui43P1kztw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-13860_3-10216489-56.html&feature=player_embedded

If he got a VAIO for less than $1500, it’s probably a basic specs VAIO. lol.

hate expensive brands…. love my neo notebook

1st Laptop Hunters ad lady lauren bought an HP
2st Laptop Hunters ad giampaulo also got the HP
hmmm..I smell something *** between microsoft and HP….