Cheap Laptops At Tesco/lotus

[Obiwan]

They sell some Compaq and Hp laptops for about 8700 Baht in a special corner of the shop in Chaweng at Koh Samui. It seems too good to be true. Doe anyone have experience with this kind of offer from this shop? (broken and no guarantee for instance).

[mahtin]

Would suspect obsolete and not up to spec for Windows 7.

More details would help

[Portlandstone]

If I'm thinking of what you're talking about, I went to a Carrefour (in BKK) and saw a laptop for sale at I believe it was 10,500 baht, right there alongside all the other laptops. I finally went to take a chance at buying it and the floor guy said that it was only one, it had no battery, it was a store model or something. He actually discouraged me from buying. I thought it was wierd to leave it in the normal laptop section complete with a standard price sign, let alone he actually didn't want me to buy.

[ironhut]

Saw something similar in Carrefour Chaengwattana near Pakkret. It was a red 9" or 10" netbook and either and ASUS or an ACER...still with protective plastic on the unit.

Price was marked as Clearance and listed at 10,000 THB. Was a very nice current unit with a HDMI out, etc. I'm kicking myself for not purchasing it as this was an excellent. Not sure why price was so low, but suspect it was their last one and maybe they lost the box or something. No way can one find this kind of a buy unless some kind of a fluke, but have noticed that flukes do happen here in LOS.

[Samuian]

Would suspect obsolete and not up to spec for Windows 7.

More details would help

yes, regarding the exceptionally low price, in this country a REAL setback!

For this privce I would by a unit even with windows 3.0!

[Beggar]

If you are looking for a cheap notebook I have an about 10 year old Thinkpad. It was USD 8500 (I am not kidding). I will reduce the price of course a bit even if the USD went down a lot in the meantime

More serious - you should not buy a notebook. You should buy a tool that does what you want to do with it. This should be the starting point for any computer buying decision. Otherwise you really can buy my old brick - still working and acceptable performance if you use only 10 to 20 years old software.

[Obiwan]

It are full sized neat looking laptops, i didn't bother to ask the well trained and ever helpful staff. No info displayed on the stcker.

[livinthailandos]

These Cheap Laptops at Tesco I think the price comes down to either the labtop is

a. Display Model

b. Do not have an OS

c. Returned Model / Used Model

d. Clearing out stock to put in a new labtop

e. lacking some parts

[d0ndela]

These Cheap Laptops at Tesco I think the price comes down to either the labtop is

a. Display Model

b. Do not have an OS

c. Returned Model / Used Model

d. Clearing out stock to put in a new labtop

e. lacking some parts

all cheap notebooks (I'm not talking netbooks) comes without OS, so b. is true in any case.

If it's d. then it's fine, just a good promotion and I would go for it.

If it's a. then I would check it thoroughly for visual damages and then consider buying it.

If it's c. then I wouldn't do it.

If it's e. then I definitely wouldn't do it.

[Bobr]

If I'm thinking of what you're talking about, I went to a Carrefour (in BKK) and saw a laptop for sale at I believe it was 10,500 baht, right there alongside all the other laptops. I finally went to take a chance at buying it and the floor guy said that it was only one, it had no battery, it was a store model or something. He actually discouraged me from buying. I thought it was wierd to leave it in the normal laptop section complete with a standard price sign, let alone he actually didn't want me to buy.

Carrefour has a tendency to do "bait and switch" advertising. I've had that problem there (in Pattaya store) twice and now I flatly refuse to shop there. They advertise something, and when you try to buy it the salesclerks tell you "it's no good" then disappear. I much prefer Tesco's brand of fraud which simply being sold out of the item on the first or second day the ad runs. The one thing I miss about the USA is Walmart. Never had those problems there.