Many types of computer components 10-40% discount

Chip, RAM, mainboard are items that have a relatively low price. While desktop computers began to consume slowly, the laptop market remained strong, despite the clear market share of brands.

For months, Acer has been successful with low-cost laptops (under $ 1,000) and accounting for over 40% of the computer market share. However, other manufacturers did not slow down any longer. HP, IBM, and Toshiba all launched many affordable products with good configuration and pushed Acer's market share to only about 30%. "I think the laptop's consumption this year will probably increase by 50% compared to the same period last year. And when the mid-range laptops become more diverse in the second quarter, maybe Acer will be even smaller. "Mr. Nguyen Manh Lan, CEO of Dang Khoa Computer Supermarket, said. For example, HP Presario C563TU notebook (Configuration: DOS PC, Pentium Dual Core T2080 2x1.73 GHz / 1 MB Cache / 512 MB RAM / 80 GB HDD / 128 MB VRAM / DVD-RW / 56Kbps Modem / NIC / 15 , 4 inch XVGA Bright View, TFT / 2.9 Kg / Wireless 802.11bg mirror screen) costs $ 890.

In the future, there will be many mid-range laptops coming to the market.Photo: Hoang Ha.

Compared to the expensive time in March, PC consumption and components in general decreased by 20-25% while this figure was only 15% at the same time last year.

Some types of main components are decreasing in price. Compared to the time after the Tet holiday, Intel's CPU drops from 15 to 40%, depending on type. Intel's move has led AMD to follow closely, lowering their prices at this level. Currently, AMD's market share has not improved over the past months.

On the market, DDRAM II has completely replaced DDRAM I. Meanwhile, the introduction of Windows Vista operating system requires PC configuration with 1 GB RAM which causes components to fluctuate quite large. 256 MB internal memory is gradually moving to "extinction", currently only about 10% in the market and down to approximately 15%. The 512 MB model has a 20% discount and still retains the most consumption of RAM (about 60%) but in the near future, it will also be overtaken by 1 GB RAM. Currently 1 GB RAM is down about 30%, but when it becomes more popular, this component will be much cheaper. Traders forecast that by August this component will continue to decrease by about 20%.

Price of some types of DDRAM II is as follows: Kingston 512 MB 667 bus costs 29 USD; KingMax 1 GB bus 400 costs 84 USD.

The motherboard will also cost about 10-20% with the 945 chipset almost replaced 915. MSI brand motherboards actually entered Vietnam market a few years ago, but after many changes of distributors, Still not significantly effective. Recently, FPT Company signed an exclusive distribution contract for this component and this is seen as a move back to MSI's market with a better future.

USB types increase by about 10% because of a shortage of products. MP3 Wemo 512 MB, with audio recording, LCD monitor costs 36 USD; Transcend 40 GB with recording, FM, LCD price of 128 USD.

Most businesses said that Vietnamese brand computers all sold very "poorly". Particularly, Tran Anh Company affirmed the number of their Tiger PCs and CMS, FPT Elead sold twice as much as last year. " Within 3-5 years, there will be no more buyers coming to the store to choose components and then wait for assembly but they only choose the brand and buy the whole unit. Components will mainly serve customers who need it. demand to upgrade computers with services at a higher level, such as going to home, for example , 'said Tran Xuan Kien, director of Tran Anh Company.

The computer market in general is slowing down until the end of July and will "revive" in August-September in the right period. " At that time, the purchasing power will increase from 30 to 40%, compared to today, " said Do Hoang Sam, Director of Mai Hoang Company.

According to VnExpress, the consumption of Windows Vista operating system at computer stores is not much. Windows XP price is 90 USD and Vista is 145 USD. A representative of Hanoi Computer Company said customers come here mostly to buy XP Home and XP Pro. Vista only consumes a few copies. " I hope this fourth quarter, Vista reduces the price in the project season, the situation may be more feasible ," the person said.

Nguyen Hang