Watch out for laptop

Sellers can exchange processors from Celeron to Pentium M Centrino and change stamps and sell at high prices; choose a strange, colorful paint machine to have a "standalone" machine that sells price in the sky .

To prevent buying a laptop, customers should choose to buy at reputable stores with warranty.( Photo: Employee )

In contrast to hardware 'boiled', another popular practice of selling laptops (laptops) today is to create a "standalone" product for sale at a high price. The prey is a big part of the customer who buys the device but not much knowledge about the machine.

Coming up with . 50 USD

To help me get more secrets in the laptop market, my neighbor introduced me to a warranty technician of a company selling computers on Nguyen Cu Trinh Street, District 1, HCMC. This warranty technician confided: The easiest price upgrade is to replace the processor (CPU) from the Celeron line to the Pentium M Centrino line.

Celeron CPU is cheaper than Pentium M Centrino. Although at the same speed, Pentium M has higher performance, faster and has L2 cache capacity larger than that of Celeron CPU.

In some future notebooks, there are a number of models that can optionally install Celeron or Pentium M Centrino CPUs. Taking advantage of this, some people buy Celeron line laptops and replace them with Pentium M Centrino CPUs and replace stickers on the body. The profit is that the price of these two CPUs is only about 50-70 USD, but the laptop will be sold at a price difference of up to 100-200 USD if you are not proficient.

Nice slash with a . poison

Because laptops are not only a means of working but also a fashion of a large number of people with money. But fashion is a lot of people like poison, not touching . This type of customer buys the main machine to go to cafes with wireless Internet access to chat, listen to music, watch movies and most importantly is to . show off, people sell machines often called 'dance'.

Seeing this demand, many shops in Ho Chi Minh City go to Singapore to hunt for laptops with strange designs. Then, about TP 'hip - hop chemistry' again by spending 25,000 - 30,000 VND to repaint the case with impressive colors, including red and pink. Paint in red to sell to 'dancers'. And when the machine was 'poisonous goods' serving 'people playing', the price was often pushed up to heaven. A machine purchased in Singapore is only about US $ 600-700, but it is normal after the paint is sold for up to US $ 1,000.

Unique products are not less than old machines. For example, for IBM models, the case is usually covered with a velvety layer. So for IBM models that are no longer this particular class but have been repainted, it could be refurbished.

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