A Visual Feast!!!

This year's PC Fair has to be one of the best organized even when last year it was held in the same place, KLCC. Why would I say that?? That's because I think the venue is well-spaced out, not so cramped, more space to move and walk about and there are much more exhibition booths especially for the Big Boys but not in terms of price save for a few things which I would mention later. The moment we started our journey into this exhibiton we see INTEL...girls, girls and people, more people and Ryan. Mind you, the better looking girls are here until Hall 3. Once you step into Hall 4, you will notice that the environment changes and so does the girls.

Hey Ryan... I didn't know you are working there, giving out those mega Intel bags and flyers on the lastest Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Ryan, the thorn among the roses......amongst all the chicks doing their boring, monotonous routine of giving out fliers.

Talking about The New Intel Core 2 Duo processors, there are awesome.The most powerful processor ever, Intel Core 2 Duo X6800/Extreme crushes...yeap and I mean that literally against the MOST powerful AMD processor, the AMD FX-62. If you happen to drop by Intel's booth, check out the video. Mind you, getting the Core 2 Extreme processor/AMD FX-62 would get you a very decent PC roughly at the price of 4k with Intel's chip a bit cheaper maybe bewteen the 3-4k range. But there is already a clear winner. Take a look at tomshardware's review on the ultimate battle for supremacy!!!

After Intel's booth, there was Toshiba, HP, Dell, Acer,Samsung, LG, Fujitec and all other big companies selling a whole lot of notebooks and desktops trying to outdo each other in the prices of their products. My verdict, Toshiba, Dell and Acer offer the best value for money, with almost the same pricing for identical specs. But it wasn't those Microsoft infested products which caught my attention. It was the girls handling the notebooks and standing there with their provocative pose, enticing looks and seducive smile. No of course not..NOT THAT!!!! Look Below..




It was my encounter with the Black MacBook Pro.

IT's sooo sexy....Too bad my financial department will be brought to its knees thanks to it's ridiculous price tag.

So that was in Hall 1.

Hall 2 is dedicated specifically to speaker systems. Everything from Sonic Gear to Creative. The hall is like some huge boom box.

Hall 3 beckons.... Similarly, the other Big Boys like Canon, Asus and Sony make their grand appearance here with Sony taking up a large portion of space. Took a look at the DSLR offered by Canon. Unfortunately, this is another one of those depressing moments where you can see, hold, admire but not buy. Their E-330, EOS 30D is a fine example of this situation.

Sony came next.... with their alpha DSLR making a grand debut, though it has been around for about a month. Not really a fan of their VAIO, prefer the Mac over them.

ASUS was the next big shot at the end of HAll 3, this year there was a display of all their motherboards and graphic cards. Even their ASUS Lamborghini VX-1 was on display.

ASUS Lamborghini VX1

AM2 Platform

Conroe Platform

Their new P5B motherboard and a host of other new mother boards to support the latest chips from Intel and AMD, supporting the new 965 socket and AM2 platform for Intel and AMD respectively.

Hall 4 was where I actually got something and this is where only two things are slightly cheaper. Pendrives and memory modules. Pendrives are just dirt cheap.... 1GB for only RM69 and Kingston is the cheapest of all the pendrive wholesalers.

There is a pretty interesting booth from PenDrive selling fruity flavoured pendrives + a free drink of the selected flavour.... Interesting... I remember them having the same concept last year but this year their booth is much more appealing in terms of aesthetics and it does give a good impression of a food stall rather then a shop selling pendrives only. Then I got another Kingston memory for my PC, 512 MB DDR400 for about RM185. Not bad considering that prices of this ancient memory will increase to RM200 soon...why??? BECAUSE IT'S ANCIENT...

Canon make their second debut in the "lower class" area after their "high class" debut. Corsair High Performance Memory had the most interesting booth there, with 2 Alienware computers at each corner of their booths. Not sure how Alienware got into Malaysia considering the fact that Alienware does not come to this part of the world. Things in this hall and the following hall were much more affordable and there were all sorts of stuff you can find here, DVD players, burners, pendrives, external HDs, printers, banners, booths, cameras, monitors and girls giving out fliers. Somehow towards the end, the girls were much better looking. Maybe it's a marketing strategy....

Alright I should stop babbling.