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Went to the last day of Sitex...man. Was it crowded... Rained prior to my arrival...showers did little to dampen the spirits of many bargain hunters looking to chew on some last minute snap-ups ^_^

Met up with Zhenming, who wanted to look @ some of the laptops, but BASICALLY he was there for a second time (he went yesterday). So I was there for the first time, getting phamplets thrown into my hands and ppl asking whether I'm interested in their products or not...

Was quite impressed by some of the products there I must say, like the expensive and exquisite looking Sony Vaio, which had a promoter, China-born I bet, promoting the stuff. Pretty okay guy I must say, but the price, $3999, just puts me off. Way off.

The HP booth was interesting, with the desktop they were trying to pitch. Zhenming was actually looking into a new computer, I was the one who told him to get a desktop so that he could play Doom 3 and HL2, so we started viewing the 'best-seller' for HP. Pretty good stats too. And the promoter was obviously some young DIY enthusiast who is on a temp job earning some money, and started talking about how the computer he's selling is good for games and stuff like that, plus the interior of the computer was shown to us :D Nice setup, not messy, but DIFFICULT to upgrade.

The Compaq booth just next door was also great. I asked the salesman what's the difference between them and HP since both were under the same boss, and he replied that it was just them selling their own brand of stuff, different from HP. My next pt, which I wanted to ask, was, so what's different....but I held that back ^^" And their pitch? Their's is worth the money, and cheaper. And the guy is obviously some undergrad who knows that students aint supposed to be into gaming and the like whilst shopping for a desktop/laptop. Yea. He's right....but I aint a student...for now =X

The best? Well, I stepped into the PDA section for HP, and this lady immediately asked whether I was looking for a PDA. I am open to all options, so I agreed for a demo of her PDA, naturally. :) And she proceeded to show me the functions of the PDA, not that I'm really that impressed, well, but the best part was that when she was showing the Word Recognition system of the PDA, it just failed. Yea. Failed to recognise her handwriting. And Zhenming tried, and failed. So my mind had thoughts like, "Gee...is this really reliable?!?!" And the lady was protesting that this is the first time she was showing it today afternoon and it was working fine earlier in the morning...in a cute way too ^_^" So, good-heartedly I decided to say that I would go around looking at more of the exhibits instead, and would come round should I make a decision.

The other booths were quite normal, same as the ones @ Suntec, albeit with more space for manouevring. The Panasonic models were pretty...yea. I think a couple were the Suzuki models from the Singapore Motorshow which just ended earlier in the month.

Quite cute larz, dounch yar think...

But the cameras on display were much cuter...hahaz. Like the Canon D300 going for $1749 with lens...really itching to get it sia.

In the end, after milling about the exhibit hall, I chanced upon the place where they sell games, and I've bought my HL2 (Finally!) for $65 bucks. Woohoo! Time to play...hahaz.

And there were some nice playing time on the computers with the Razer mice. Damn cool. Think that's the next stuff I would get then.

Current Mood: Happy

Current Music: Lullaby :P