Re: [tlug] OT: laptop in Akihabara (map)

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:

> but i would personally go for a new computer with world-wide warranty
> - you never know what will happen and even if you pay "only" 60.000
> yen (that's the prize for my old libretto) it would be hard if there
> are any problems with it.
> many foreigner/tourists think: hey akiba, the place to go and get
> cheap stuff - and 60.000 yen is quite cheap for a sub (even it's old)
> but when you have problems with it these are lost 60.000 yen because
> usually no one will help you...


I agree. Actually, I usually tell people that they can get some great
equipment for dirt cheap so long as it's desktop equipment. If they want
a laptop, then I usually tell them to get it new. The best situation is
when there's an older (but still new, not used) model that the store
(and/or manufacturer) want to get off the shelves in a hurry. There were
some squeaky new HP laptops going for about Y65,000 two or three months
back (in Akihabara) and last month there were some Sotec (I don't like
Sotec, but they were new...) laptops going for about Y60,000 at
Yodobashi Camera. Right now, I'm not seeing anything under about
Y120,000 for a laptop. Timing can be a huge factor.....