I was looking for a 2nd hand notebook or a netbook, but have been talked out of both.....for reliability and speed reasons and am now ready to 'bite the bullet' and have Santa buy me a new low end notebook for Xmas. he says he doesn't want to spend over 15Kthb and He is wondering where to shop. Does anyone know of any good deals with the major on line suppliers, or superstores??

Seems the best deals and service are with Acer??

If your budget is 15,000 baht there is probably less than a handful models that are sold at that price. So pick one and hope for the best

These are pics from less than a month ago at Panthip BKK when I was screening laptops for a friend.

I found merely 3-4 models below 15.000,-. See the pictures below. Maybe others can comment on the specs and the differences. Prices probably without 7% VAT.

I ended up buying a 2nd Hand Compaq V3400 (14" Core Duo @1.7Ghz, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Geforce Go 7200, WLAN/BT, DVD-RW) for 10.000,- THB (starting offer was 12.000). Seemed to me like a good bargain at that time, since 4 year old 2nd Hand models with Pentium M 1.6, 512MB RAM, 40-60GB HDD and often worn out look were advertised starting from just under 8000 THB.

However, I nearly blew it off, recommending my friend to go with one of those new laptops on the pictures (maybe the eMachine?), having the advantage of a new battery and 1 year warranty (harddrive maybe even longer).

I would never recommend an inexperienced user to buy 2nd hand at Panthip. The laptop I bought had a faulty DVD drive which was not so obvious (could read and write CDs fine but not DVDs) and I had it replaced (before I bought). The shop offered a 1-month warranty but from how they struggled to accept the DVD drive as faulty and exchange it ('but it can read CDs can't it?') I would not expect much.

And I am still not sure whether the repair store at Panthip didn't replace the cells of my laptop battery with old ones when I had it in for fixing a broken LCD.

welo

Edited December 13, 200916 yr by welo

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Laptop-netbo...fo-t319781.html

I think this should get you started in the right direction.