yo anyone know that is it ok or 'safe' to get those gadgets thing from Lucky Plaza ?

price there is nice, but the place give me a Pertama Complex feel lol.

What gadget?

camera, phones, game consoles.

any experiences there ?

Oh, u mean "pinoy/pinay" plaza. Should be ok but i've never bought any electronic stuff from there. I think its safe to say its original unless you want some illegal goods from the vendor personally.

So far i've bought mostly computer stuff from either sim lim or funan. Phone i just got it from a sony Ericcson shop since they had an offer.

I do know their cosmetics and perfume are damn cheap but if ori not too sure about that. I notice they sell those perfume bottles which are meant for promotional gift and not supposed to be sold commercially.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Dec 14 2008, 11:30 AM

lol thx for the info.

i wanna get a new phone (my current 1 battery farked-up d ), juz not sure if buy from there will end up like getting non-ori stuffs.

also interest to look for any good deal for a DSL.

its 7pm to 1 am...
connection lag till cant enter msn
i'm using 7.2mbps...
dont ever get into m1

Never go to Sim Lim Square for consoles, especially the shops near to the ground floor.

I recommend you go to http://www.qisahn.com/
or Seow Choon game shop just behind the Sim Lim Tower (note: it's opposite of Sim Lim Square)

My friend also got the same problem, he can only play online game after 1am.

I am beginning to doubt the internet service here due to many complains I heard.

Currently, I am using wireless@sg. It's free although I need to walk to mcD everyday to access it.

If you wanna buy computer stuffs, don't buy at singapore, go back to KL and buy at lowyat instead (for those who are from KL)... it is about 25% more cheaper after conversion.

it depends on what stuff you wanna buy lah.
Leadtek 9600GT SGD141 (*2.38 = RM336), can you find cheaper than this in KL?

please don't jump into conclusion so fast.

For this it is cheap oso, but maybe not 25%, perhaps it's around RM320 if not mistaken. Bcos last month, I just bought all hardwares from MY and assemble it in SG. Total cost is RM3566 but if the same rig same specs, it is around $1,700++ and bcos in Sim Lim I heard alot of tipu case as well, means non-ori parts.

Yeah, Sg's not much cheaper than Mys for computer stuff. The only thing I've found to be consistently cheaper are HDDs. The shops in the upper floors in Sim Lim have some really good deals. For everything else from RAM to thumb drives, Malaysia's a little cheaper - although not so cheap that it's worth the bus or airfare just to buy a couple of things. Having said that, I find that netbooks in Sg are outrageously more expensive. For instance, the same spec Acer Aspire One is RM1399 (in Ipoh, not KL some more) but is S$699 in Sg during PC Fair. Same thing for eePc.

hmm...just checked, indeed it's around the same.
last time i used to compare the price, some of SLS hardwares are cheaper than LYP.
how come now become most of the pc stuff is more expensive now?
maybe due to US currency rate?

the 7% gst msia comp items tax free

Ok, so its either singtel or starhub for me. But i notice compared to m1, singtel and starhub charges for registration and sim card whereas m1 just charges 8 dollars recently for those i mentioned. Hows the speed for the 2mb line for starhub mobile broadband? I hope it isnt as crappy as the landline i currently using from my landlord.

Plus i worried about singtels 50gb cap per month on download usage. Can you actually play online games with mobile broadband? wont there be terrible lag?

they usually give you free registration and sim card nowadays.
please check singtel latest offerings.
not sure about starhub.

i do play teamfortress 2 quite often, sometimes will get dced but nothing serious.
my line is 2mbps and i stay east side.

i have 2mbps starhub mxmobile and the 1mbps (50gb) singtel as well but for some reason i get disconnected a lot at peak hours (thats for Starhub). I play a lot of COD4 on it and getting pings like 150-200ms and ya i know its pretty crap. But if u are playing games like WOW or DOTA i guess there is no worry about it. For Singtel i use it for my 3G phone outdoors but sometimes i use the phone as modem whenever the starhub mobile screws me up. Overall the stability is better but i cant seem to get it to play a game on pc when i use the phone as the modem. So i am guessing the ping is about 100ms. BTW i stay in the north east.

Hmm ok. The ping which you mention about COD4, is that on the maxmobile or singtel line? Do you encounter any problems with singtels 50gb limit?

I'm quite amazed that 3g broadband ping is around 150-200 coz since of latency issue inherent to 3g networks, i though it would be at least 200++ ping for games.

M1 real sux. The best time is only during office hour and after midnight. During night is the worst!

If you want to buy camera, recommend you to get from MS Colour

True

Yeah, you are right. But most of the IT hardware are cheaper in Malaysia.
You guys could always PM me if you want to buy hardware in Singapore

I have to agree with that. I surveyed the price of RAMs for my laptop over here and compared it to my hometown. I was shocked when the price of a value ram is much more expensive. So when I got back to my hometown. I got a branded RAM which has a higher clockspeed and it cost less!