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3 – 5 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Permata Car Park (Level 5), Kuching – Sarawak
· Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan, Sandakan – Sabah
· Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan – Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Pahang
· Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak – Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh

10 – 12 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur
· Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru – Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru
· Village Mall, Sungai Petani – Kedah
· Dewan Masyarakat Tawau, Tawau – Sabah

17 – 19 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Miri Indoor Stadium, Miri – Sawarak
· Sibu Trade & Exhibition Centre, Sibu – Sarawak
· Penang International Sports Arena, Penang – Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
· Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka – Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir

24 – 26 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar – Johor

PC Fair is an annual affair and actually is a twice a year affair for computer enthusiasts or deals seeker to get the best price for computers or electronic gadgets.

I remembered the days when I used to visit PC Fair at Komtar in Penang with my cousin brother when I was still a kid and being introduced to the world of computer or should I say computer games. 🙂

Back then was the early days of PC Fair, where things get to be more interesting in my point of view. Early birds get freebies, and there’s even Computer Games Challenge and a whole lot of new technologies or gadgets to check out.

Nowadays, PC Fair has evolved to a crowded marketplace with female promoters dressed as F1 girls (not that I’m complaining though). It has also become a place where all computer shops have their grand sale, competing with other shops with better price.

The excitement of going to PC Fair has started to diminish a few years back. I have stopped visiting PC Fair except when I needed to make a purchase of a computer system or a laptop, of which I will make a price survey at the fair. I will still make the actual purchase at a computer shop in my area.

This time around, I visited PC Fair in KL Convention Center as a tour guide to my relatives dropping by from overseas. By the time people know about it, they are asking me to collect brochures and to make purchases for them. :-S

Thus it was not really a fun affair making a trip to PC Fair anymore as compared to the days in Komtar. Am I getting old or what?

First of all, the visitors following the crowd make their way to the top floor of the KL Convention Center where everyone had to pass the hall where the exhibitors are all mobile broadband or internet providers. You get people shoving you USB broadband modem and shouting ‘broadband, broadband’ or something like that. Passing that hall due to our intention of seeing gadgets and not signing up broadband, we had to make our way three or four floors to the ground again.

I remember seeing the banner that alternative entrance is at the ground floor, but if the organizers had stated that the top floor are just internet providers, I should have avoided that and head straight to the alternative entrance and also avoiding the massive crowd.

Overall, there are only a few items I think deserving a mention:

1) Pocket projector – it’s a small projector the size of a PDA or mobile phone. The projection is not as wide as the normal lamp projectors, enough only to project to the size of a small whiteboard. It comes with a tripod, something like a digital camera tripod. It’s using LED and said to have a longer life but it does costs over RM1k. I’d rather get an actual lamp projector by topping up a few hundred more.

2) GPS navigator – I have request to check out the price of Garmin nuvi 205W, but seems like most of those shops are selling Garmin nuvi 255W (with junction view). The GPS navigator software has progressed till that it allows you to view the road of each junctions that you arrive to before making your choice of which to turn into.

3) Camera pen – this seems to be a James Bond gadget or also something that we call spy cam. While I could not figure how it could be useful, but I think I had to be cautious on my action and speech when I see a protruding pen directed at me in the future. If I’m not mistaken, it has a storage of at least 1GB and retails at RM 99 only!

4) iPod imitation – iPod branding is so strong that the business of making their imitations are doing good as well. These iPod nano imitations particularly interests me as they have the “click wheel” just like the real one. What’s lacking is not just the quality of the product, but the sofware itself looks cheap. But hey, it has got radio which the iPod nano lack of and also at the price of around RM 150, who’s complaining?

Other than these interesting gadgets, exhibitors like Acer, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus appears at more than one hall, so it’s kinda repetitive going through the same brands.

Did I mention all the way it was packed like sardines even on the way exiting the fair?

Someone please do not ask me to visit PC Fair again.

I found some other bloggers review worth reading:

-:: Malaysia Mobile Tech News ::-
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/04/penang-pcfair-roundup-part-1.html
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/04/penang-pcfair-roundup-part-2.html

Life beside the edge
http://www.alifebe.com/2009/04/14/klcc-pc-fair-2009-saturday-version/
http://www.alifebe.com/2009/04/14/klcc-pc-fair-2009-sunday-version/

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Aiptek Projector, Camera pen, Garmin nuvi 255W, iPod imitation, PC Fair 2009