newbie buying a laptop in The Philippines

[maramune]

1) What is your budget?

about $1000


2) What size notebook would you prefer?

between 15in -17in

3) Where will you buying this notebook? You can select the flag of your country as an indicator.

buying from the philippines not that great of a selection here. villman.com can give you an idea of which loptops are available to us

4) Are there any brands that you prefer?

not very particular with it although hp would be nice


5) Would you consider laptops that are refurbished/redistributed?

I want mine brand new


6) What are the primary tasks will you be performing with this notebook?

mainly gaming and internet

7) Will you be taking the notebook with you to different places, leaving it on your desk or both?

mostly on my desk


9) How many hours of battery life do you need?

about 2-3


10) Are the notebook's looks and stylishness important to you?

no

11) When are you buying this laptop?

2-3mons from now

12) How long do you want this laptop to last?

4yrs

13) How much hard drive space do you need; 80GB to 640GB? Do you want a SSD drive?

not particular with it 500GB would do

14) Do you need an optical drive? If yes, a CDRW/DVD-ROM, DVD Burner or Blu-Ray drive?

dvd rom

[Soran_F]

Ah, a fellow Pinoy. Since you did mention villman, might I suggest this?

MSI GX660x-i5285+ Born to Game | VillMan Computers

[maramune]

i was also considering a HP Pavilion DV6-6157TX. which would be better for games (skyrim bf3)? i also said villman computers since it has a large selection of available laptops here.

[Valentin N]

MSI GE

Could you give us some alternative; this website have laptops with yesterdays technology.

Could you also add the price of your country(P 44 000) so that we know the prices without looking it. Thanks

Regards

[Geekz]

MSI GE

Could you give us some alternative; this website have laptops with yesterdays technology.

Could you also add the price of your country(P 44 000) so that we know the prices without looking it. Thanks

Regards

Actually that's one of the problems with retail stores in our country, they sell last year's computers with today's prices lol.

@OP: is it specifically have to be with villman? there are other and better options in buying laptops in the philippines.

like buying from a non retail reseller like TipidPC.com | HP Pavilion dv7-6179us 17in i5-2430M 6GB 750GB AMD 6490M 1GB Bluray Win7

or directly buying from a U.S. website to be shipped locally by a cargo forwarder which is what some of us here do. warranty would depend on the brand of the laptop like Dell, Asus and MSI would have international warranty.

something like this Newegg.com - HP dv6-6180us Notebook Intel Core i7 2670QM(2.20GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 750GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi AMD Radeon HD 6770M
would cost about 42-45k shipped already as opposed to a lower specced and more expensive HP Pavilion DV6-6157TX Core i5-2430M 2.4GHz,15.6 | VillMan Computers

[SeaDigital]

Actually that's one of the problems with retail stores in our country, they sell last year's computers with today's prices lol.

@OP: is it specifically have to be with villman? there are other and better options in buying laptops in the philippines.

like buying from a non retail reseller like TipidPC.com | HP Pavilion dv7-6179us 17in i5-2430M 6GB 750GB AMD 6490M 1GB Bluray Win7

or directly buying from a U.S. website to be shipped locally by a cargo forwarder which is what some of us here do. warranty would depend on the brand of the laptop like Dell, Asus and MSI would have international warranty.

something like this Newegg.com - HP dv6-6180us Notebook Intel Core i7 2670QM(2.20GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 750GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi AMD Radeon HD 6770M
would cost about 42-45k shipped already as opposed to a lower specced and more expensive HP Pavilion DV6-6157TX Core i5-2430M 2.4GHz,15.6 | VillMan Computers

Bingo! I was looking at NewEgg and Villman. I almost thought I was stuck with Villman or Ebay.ph or the like to order my laptop, although New Egg has a much better computers for 30,000 PHP less than what they are selling for here. I was going to add $244.00 for Fed Ex S/H.

You just said the magic words, cargo forwarder. I've not a clue how this works and don't know where to start. I assume it's cheaper than the $244.00 that Federal Express charges to ship?

What do I need to know about cargo forwarders and do you have any suggestions as to which one is reputable, reliable and cheap?

I want to buy a laptop!

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, LED LCD TV, Digital Cameras and more!

These same computers are either not available here in the RP or priced insanely over 100k PHP

What can I expect my S/H to be through a cargo forwarder?

Thank you GEEKY!

P.S. I just joined www.tipidpc.com as suggested. How does this fare? Can you pay for an item to simply not receive it? I'm skeptical buying from strangers without 100% pos feedback or just plain scared of getting ripped off! Thanks!

[dj_ngango]

You just said the magic words, cargo forwarder. I've not a clue how this works and don't know where to start. I assume it's cheaper than the $244.00 that Federal Express charges to ship?

I would like to know as well. I live in the Philippines and have been putting off getting a laptop due to the unappealing price : performance ratio of the machines locally available. I'd rather buy from an online US store like Newegg or Amazon for better specs, but I don't know how they ship orders here and how much they charge.