Laptops reduce prices much pushing demand to rise

" If at the end of 2007, the most sold products fell in the range of 20 million dong, until the beginning of this year, they were only about 17 million dong. At present, the average price of a laptop sold in second quarter only 12.5 million, "a laptop salesman said.

Overcoming the general difficulties of the economy and the erratic fluctuations of exchange rates over the past time, many computer enterprises said that the consumption of laptops is the brightest point in the retail sector of IT products with the proportion of nearly 30%. at the time considered the most quiet in recent years.

Reaching the price of approaching the desktop, laptop is becoming more popular. Photo: Hoang Ha . " Statistics of some market research firms show that laptops are one of the hottest development segments, with a growth of 219%, " said Le Duc Lan, in charge of HanoiComputer company retail, for know. " In our company, sales of this item in the end of July increased by 30% compared to the same period in June ."

Representative of Dang Khoa Computer Supermarket also said that 40% of the computers consumed by this enterprise are notebooks. "Currently, our laptop revenue increased by 60% over the same period last year," said Dang Khoa CEO Nguyen Manh Lan.

Mai Hoang, a well-known computer company in Hanoi, also revealed that the number of laptops consumed in the second quarter of this business also increased by 42% compared to the same period in 2007.

According to IT business, laptops are selling well due to strong consumer demand. When the time of the dollar exchange rate skyrocketed, buyers were also afraid of making money, and the distributor was also afraid of being damaged by the exchange rate difference, so he was locked in stock to wait for a favorable opportunity. Currently, when the exchange rate problem is relatively stable, supply and demand meet at the right time, so the consumption increased significantly. Continuously in the past days, manufacturers continuously offer promotions and attractive discounts are also a cause for this market.

At Dang Khoa's cashier, a customer named Tran Manh Hai said: ' I have consulted a few new models, very strong configuration, cost about 20 million dong. But I decided to buy the Acer Aspire for 13.7 million dong, get an additional 500 thousand dong because it was cheaper, my need to use it was just a little above average . "

In addition, the appearance of ultra-small laptops such as EeePC (Asus), Aspire One (Acer), HP 2133 . has created a new trend in using portable devices and increasing significant number of people buying laptops. These products are also considered to be one of the main challenges for the notebook market in general.

Enterprises said that although the number of mobile computers sold stably, the revenue did not increase much. In some companies, the volume of products sold increased by 40% but revenue was only about 28%. One of the reasons is that the average value of laptops has dropped significantly, especially the mid-range, so attracting customers focuses on this segment. Therefore, high-end models sell very slowly, even freeze.

More and more students use laptops instead of bulky desktops.Photo: Hoang Ha .

Manufacturers and retailers all say that in Vietnam, the laptop market share will increasingly dominate desktop computers. In particular, after the second quarter faced many difficulties due to market and social factors, the demand will return strongly in the second quarter, promising to create a new turn for the computer market, where the laptop is the leading engine for growth. . " I think that in the future, this product will account for about 30%, even more in the total amount of computers sold, " said Nguyen Quang Tiep, Marketing Manager of the chain store [IN], said. .

In Vietnam market today, 3 strong brands are HP-Compaq, Acer, IBM-Lenovo are sharing over 70% of the market share, the rest belongs to 'veterans' such as Sony, Toshiba, Nec, Dell. . and Asus emerging products.

Notably, the HP 6520s - FJ120PA costs about 10 million dong (using Intel Celeron M 2.0 GHz; DDRII 512 MB; HDD 80 GB SATA; VGA: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100; Display: 14.1 inch TFT 'WXGA BrightView; Modem: 56K V92; Nic: 10 / 100TX; Wireless: 802.11b / g; Optical Driver: DVD-CDRW combo).

After the launch of the popular EeePC, Asus is demonstrating many new products with an eye-catching form, good configuration and affordable prices. The popular model, Asus X80L, sells for about 12.5 million (using Intel Pentium Dual T2370 processor (2 x 1.73GHz), DDR II 1024 MB 667MHz, HDD: 120 GB SATA; VGA: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100; Display: 14.1 inch TFT 'WXGA).