Cheap PCs top choice of buyers at laptop fair
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan
The low-cost but highly portable ranges of PC notebooks were the buyers' choice at the Zoom Laptop Fair that concluded in the city Friday.
Beginning Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, the three-day long fair drew a large number of visitors at the weekend, a testimony to the rising demand for laptops from middle and even lower middle class of the society.
While a wide range of laptop PCs both in terms of price and configuration of almost every renowned brand were on display at the fair, the ultimate best sellers came out to be the cheapest, the exhibitors informed.
Apart from the growingly popular Netbook PCs, which are cheaper than the conventional notebooks; the most sought-after models were the ones with the lowest price tags.
Whether it is Tk. 43,000 HP Compaq CQ40 or Tk.50,000 Dell Inspiron 1440 or Tk. 85,000 MacBook- they all have one thing in common- while being the lesser expensive among their own brand names, these models were also considerably lighter as well as well-configured and therefore were the hottest deal of the fair.
"The market trend is that increasingly the ultra-portable laptops are available at much lower prices", said an exhibitor, "which makes the local buyers' selection easier."
Huge discounts were already on offer in the eleventh hour of the fair on the showcased PCs. However, as the fair drew to an end Friday; so increased the rush of the buyers and so went down the price of the displayed items.
A Tk. 18,000.00 Asus EEE PC netbook with a 7-inch display for example, reportedly went on sale for Tk. 12,000.00 during the last hours. Similar eye-caching discounts were remarkable on various such brands and models as well.
The low-cost but highly portable ranges of PC notebooks were the buyers' choice at the Zoom Laptop Fair that concluded in the city Friday.
Beginning Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, the three-day long fair drew a large number of visitors at the weekend, a testimony to the rising demand for laptops from middle and even lower middle class of the society.
While a wide range of laptop PCs both in terms of price and configuration of almost every renowned brand were on display at the fair, the ultimate best sellers came out to be the cheapest, the exhibitors informed.
Apart from the growingly popular Netbook PCs, which are cheaper than the conventional notebooks; the most sought-after models were the ones with the lowest price tags.
Whether it is Tk. 43,000 HP Compaq CQ40 or Tk.50,000 Dell Inspiron 1440 or Tk. 85,000 MacBook- they all have one thing in common- while being the lesser expensive among their own brand names, these models were also considerably lighter as well as well-configured and therefore were the hottest deal of the fair.
"The market trend is that increasingly the ultra-portable laptops are available at much lower prices", said an exhibitor, "which makes the local buyers' selection easier."
Huge discounts were already on offer in the eleventh hour of the fair on the showcased PCs. However, as the fair drew to an end Friday; so increased the rush of the buyers and so went down the price of the displayed items.
A Tk. 18,000.00 Asus EEE PC netbook with a 7-inch display for example, reportedly went on sale for Tk. 12,000.00 during the last hours. Similar eye-caching discounts were remarkable on various such brands and models as well.