Gadget Hunt is on (Part 2)

June has been a crazy month for me! :) After buying several things already (refer to Part 1 of Gadget Hunt), I ended the month with a bang.

GST (tax refund) is going up by 2% come July1 so the rush got the heck of me.

Now I know why Funan IT mall is a paradise for gadget addicts and IT geeks. I was there 5x on the last week of June while canvassing what to buy. It seems that there's always another model or a good deal that fancies me everytime I was there in those 5 times, then I have to go home and read reviews again.. and cycle continues.

Okay.. so i bought a.. Laptop! On the dot, that's June30.

Whooa even if I'm a laptop user for 4 years, I dont care to know the specs, it was company's property anyway. Now of course it's different, I have to consider carefully what to buy and something that works on my budget too.

I got my Lenovo baby :), specs below:

Core2Duo T7100 (1.8GHz), pre-Santa Rosa

1GB DDR2

Windows Vista Home Premium

120GB SATA HDD

1.3MP cam

Burner/Wifi/Bluetooth/wireless

Media accelerator x3100

Dobly sound Surround system with Subwoofer

6-in-1 card reader

It's more of a home entertainment laptop. Unique about this model is the subwoofer.. the sounds are really wonderful. And oh they have this cool feature for face recognition, similar to the logic of fingerprint reader, but this one takes snapshots of your face and the image can be encoded as your 'password' instead for logging in.

The only thing lacking in this model is the Geforce Nvidia stuff (dedicated memory/video card), those for gaming. Anyway, I gave up on this since I'm not really a hardcore gamer anyway.

Probably that day was my lucky day. Along with it, I have a lot of freebies! the actual promo just includes a free 120GB Seagate external hard disk, then the usual laptop carrying case

However probably due to sheer luck and a bit charm, I was able to request a few more stuff from the store manager:

1year Norton Antivirus internet security

Emci optical mouse (retractable)

Lenovo Warcraft slipcase (limited edition)

6GB Seagate flash disk

4USB-port hub

I was even able to request for another slipcase for the friend who accompanied me! We joke around saying umepek ata ang charm ng mga bagong rebond. hehehe Pero mabait talaga yun nagbenta.

All in all, my freebies are already worth almost 15K! Good deal! It's still darn cheaper to buy gadgets here than Philippines.

Now.. I'm broke. Waah. hihi

My gadget hunt ends temporarily for the mean time. No more electronics shopping for me, quota na. :)