Choose laptop 10 million

For laptops, 10 million is the lowest price. But which product is the best and the best when the market doesn't have much choice at this level?

Last year, computer makers competed in the market for affordable laptops under $ 600. The world's largest computer manufacturer, HP, offers three models, while Acer leads the way with no fewer than 5 models for this branch. Gateway, Toshiba and domestic firms such as CMS, Lien Viet Thanh (V-Open brand) are also involved with laptops like N521U, Satellite L30, Sputnik V3 and Talenty 4,300 for just under VND 10 million.

However, this year, the low-cost laptop race suddenly loses. Contrary to the expectations of many people at this time last year, laptops will surpass $ 500, in fact there are very few new products being released and prices are being pinned around the 10 million mark. VND (600 USD).

In the current Vietnamese market, HP only enhances the unique promotion of the C500 series, with the most popular model of C551TU at 620 USD including value added tax. Acer has only 4 models priced under USD 630, CMS has two Sputnik V4 (10 million) and V6 (10.8 million) products to replace the Sputnik V3 while Toshiba maintains the model launched last summer. : Satellite L30.

The C551TU belongs to the HP-Compaq C500 series with an elegant look.

This year's soft laptops are only equipped with the Celeron M processor, the lowest-end chip, so it is obviously slower than laptops using the same Pentium chip and the new Core Duo.

However, compared to the models of the same price range last year, the configuration was significantly improved. If last year's models had clock speeds of 1.4 to 1.66 GHz, this year's product would have been raised from 1.73 GHz to 1.86 GHz. Hard drive capacity doubled over the same period last year, from 40 GB to 80 GB. Particularly, the CMS of V6 is equipped with hard drive up to 100 GB.

Many models have built-in combo optical drives (DVD / CD-RW). However, to minimize selling price, RAM still only fluctuates around 256 MB or 512 MB. So if you want to improve the speed of the computer, users will have to plug in more RAM, and so the budget for laptop is pushed up significantly.

The looks of these low-cost laptops are also quite stylish and compact, ranging from 2.3 to 2.9 kg, and many models have shockproof covers. Average battery life, allows working 2-4 hours. However, the camera body is generally rough, the keyboard is not very sensitive and hard to find which can be waterproof. The screen of the device is about 14.1 'or 15.4', maybe a wide or non-wide screen, hardly a super bright mirror screen and a wide viewing angle. Product warranty period is only 1 year.

According to an HP computer sales manager of FPT Distribution Company, HP maintains a model of 10 million VND (model C551TU) to replace the same products last year. It is upgraded in terms of configuration (Celeron M 1.86 GHz processor, 80 GB hard drive, Combo optical drive) while the price remains unchanged.

Acer Aspire laptop.

Although there are not many options, products like HP C551TU have conquered a large number of budget-tight customers, including students.

With Windows Vista's most advanced operating system, these low-cost laptops have not yet overcome the minimum requirements for processor speed, RAM and video card power (with Vista needing Dual Core, Pentium D processors). or Pentium 4 high processing speed and 1 GB RAM minimum) to be able to install and run smoothly. However, for older operating systems and 'idle' applications like office editing, web surfing, listening to music, or watching movies gently, they can afford it.

Although manufacturers have not planned to lower the price of low-cost laptops or participate in programs like OLPC of MIT or Intel's Classmate PC, but practical promotions make laptops lower and lower. . For example, CMS is maintaining a promotion to double the Sputnik V4 and V6 RAM, from 512MB to 1 GB for free.

Like when shopping for any PC, when choosing a laptop with VND 10 million, the configuration of the laptop must be as high as possible. However, the synchronization, feature-rich, full connectivity including wireless and wired networking, long battery life, convenient design are also important criteria. In addition, if the product is best guaranteed after sales conditions, warranty or in other words reliability, then nothing will match.

Hai Thanh