How about buying a 600

How about buying a 600
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How about buying a 600 Horse Power Mercedes with a top speed of 350 KM/H yet it will spend 99% of its time in traffic jam from Kiwatule, Ntinda, Bukoto, Kamwokya. Let’s say you make it to the Northern bypass one day and there’s no traffic jam at the Kalerwe roundabout or trucks slowing down the entire lane, you won’t have enough room to run over 150km/h for long. One may argue that they will drive up country for Christmas and the high performance car will shorten the journey. But considering that you’ll do that journey once a year, that high performance car is such a luxury!
In all the three cases, you are buying excess capacity with battery scuh as Acer AS07A31 Battery, Acer AS07A51 Battery, Acer Aspire 4520 Battery, Acer AS07B72 Battery, Acer Aspire 5520 Battery, Acer BTP-43D1 Battery, Acer TravelMate 220 Battery, Acer BTP-58A1 Battery, acer BTP-60A1 Battery, Acer TravelMate 240 Battery, Acer AS10B5E Battery, Acer AS10B75 Battery. It’s OK if you have “arrived” and you have a generous or unlimited budget, and you’re buying the Merc or Mac for prestige but for the budget conscious buyer, where most Ugandan computer users are, you don’t need to buy capacity that you will never use.
I know there are categories of people who actually need the processing power, and my next post will detail those categories and give recommendations for each category, but for today I’m talking about the category of computer users where most of Uganda’s working class fall. Those whose computing activities are mostly inside Microsoft Office applications and a web browser.
I decided to drop by Mitsumi Computers in Kisementi to get some real life illustrations.
At the bottom of the rung there’s a 15 inch Acer with a Celeron Processor and 2GB RAM which costs UGX 900,000 1.2m ($250) and then on the higher end of the spectrum is a Lenovo with an Intel Core i5 processor and 4GB RAM, and 500GB hard disk space going for UGX 1,800,000 ($500). Now this isn’t the most powerful on the market, or the most expensive, Jumia has an Acer listed for over UGX 3m ($930), but it costs twice as much as the Celeron powered Acer, and both are sufficient for a university student writing course work and doing research or the office guy preparing a proposal and analyzing some data in a bunch of spreadsheets. For a buyer with a tight budget, or who would be happy to use any savings for something else, there’s little need to buy the Lenovo.
Sure there’s more to the deal than just the processor and RAM. For example the Lenovo has a fingerprint scanner and probably better battery life or better build quality. A UGX 7,500,000 MacBook Pro has among other niceties a Retina display. But in real life some of these differences don’t matter as much. I know people with laptops with a fingerprint scanner who have never set it up and use the default Windows login with passwords like “Uganda” or “Mengo”, so the extra money spent for that feature was wasted.