My First Ever Laptop: A NEO Empriva 540SVBe
Bought my very first ever laptop the day after Sean was born… Another one of my spur of the moment thing.
Yep, I did bought a NEO Empriva 540SVBe laptop (with 1 GB computer memory, I thought it’s just 512MB) yesterday but it was totally not planned and not even discussed with the missus! It really was another incident of impulsive buying habit of Eli… tsk tsk.. bad Eli!
I went to the nearest mall (which is of course SM Marilao) to have my mobile number changed when I saw an ASUS Eee PC on display from one of the computer stores.
I’ve been hunting one of these baby few weeks ago and have been scouring every inch of Virra Mall for that Php16,000 ASUS Eee PC… Almost Php20k pa rin… No luck.
Then I saw one! I was actually going to buy it (even though the price was Php 19,800)!
I was about to asked for some more details (like how may stocks do they have, colors, specs, upgrades) but then I saw this cheap P19,900 laptop! Geezz that’s a hundred pesos difference from a toy-like gadget to a full-blown (not-that-high-specs) laptop!
Even though the processor of that laptop is a Celeron (and most probably a 512MB RAM, didn’t dare ask), still in my case, I prefer that one instead of the ASUS…
Stayed a few minutes more on that store and the next thing I knew I’m handing over my credit card to the sales guy person for the NEO Empriva 540SVBe… I think this was the mid range priced laptop.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
I remember when I impulsively bought my Zen MicroPhoto (which is now broken) for P12000 about two years ago. A month or so later, the newer models (Zen V Plus) came out and the P12000 bulk of a thing became 8K or something.
Not bad though, because when the MicroPhoto broke within warranty, they replaced it with the Zen V Plus also worth 12K, but had to add 1000.
I’m an impulsive buyer as well… which is why I don’t have a credit card.