WINDOW SHOPPER | Stylish Toshiba laptops to go with your dressy look, geeky pursuits

Text by Ana Valenzuela | Lifestyle Section, InterAksyon.com · Thursday, July 18, 2013 · 1:26 pm

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Mr. Hairul Bin Ibrahim, Asst. Manager, Product Manager, Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd; Mr. Tomoyasu Yamamoto, President, Toshiba (Philippines) Inc. holds the Portege Z10t. Photo by Ana Valenzuela, InterAksyon.com.

Still thinking which laptop best suits your taste and lifestyle? After results of numerous studies by Toshiba revealed that one thing users truly value is “elegant design,” the company wasted no time creating stylish new models that combine both aesthetics and functionality. Each new design was also tailor-made for particular lifestyles.

A thin detachable laptop, the Portege Z10 is also a tablet featuring a bright 11.6-inch full HD touch display. Photo courtesy of Toshiba Philippines.

Businessman’s delight: the Portégé Z10t
Just right for people on the go or those whose job requires a lot of presentation, impress your clients or boss with The Portege Z10t. It has a thin detachable laptop and tablet feature with a bright 11.6-inch full HD touch display, and is powered by Windows 8 Pro.

Enjoy the massive power of a full-fledged Ultrabook™ and the portability of a tablet weighing only 850 grams. With its combined laptop PC and tablet designs, the Portégé Z10t is ideal for executive and frequent travellers.

The Satellite S40 offers students an all-new sophisticated and significantly thinner design packed with high definition multimedia and entertainment-optimized features for greater everyday computing power. Photo courtesy of Toshiba.

Social media and the student: Satellite S40 series
Type away that midterm paper and, at the same time, stay connected with friends through your social media accounts with the Satellite S40 series, made up of the S40t and S40Dt.

These models with its 14.1-inch HD display, up to 750GB HDD storage, integrated Optical Disk Drive, DTS® Sound™ and built-in Onkyo speakers offers students an all-new sophisticated and significantly thinner design encased in an eye-catching brushed aluminium ice metallic silver finish, packed with high definition multimedia and entertainment-optimized features for greater everyday computing power.

The S40 features a 10-point touch display that makes navigating and controlling a laptop as convenient and intuitive as using a tablet or smartphone. The Satellite S40Dt is available for PhP31,990, while the Satellite S40t sells for PhP42,990.

The Satellite L40 lets everyday users enjoy high quality multimedia and content creation. Photo courtesy of Toshiba.

Everyday techies can get sleek: Satellite L40 and L50 Series
Toshiba’s Satellite L40 and L50 series is the way to go. These notebooks allow everyday users to effectively perform their daily computing tasks while providing them the power to enjoy high quality multimedia and content creation.

Noteworthy features of the Satellite L40 series include HD display with LED backlighting, NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology, integrated Optical Disk Drive, DTS® Sound™, built-in Onkyo speakers, and Toshiba Resolution+ technology. The Satellite L40D sells for PhP28,990 and the Satellite L40 for PhP37,990.

Movie geek and occasional gamers’ companion: Satellite P50 and P50t
Its big 15.6-inch full HD display  is enough to satisfy anyone enjoys watching their favorite movies or playing their usual games on their laptop. The Satellite P series, comprised of the Satellite P50 and P50t runs in a fourth-generation Haswell processor, GeForce GT 745M, a framebuffer of 4GB, and an optical drive.

Aside from that, both the P50 and P50t come equipped with, an enlarged click touchpad and two Harman Kardon® speakers, making your viewing and gaming experience quite an adventure. The Satellite P50t sells for PhP49,990 and the Satellite P50 for PhP62,990.

Gamers will enjoy red-colored Qosmio X70′s powerful graphics and sound features. Photo courtesy of Toshiba.

Seriously, for gamers: Qosmio X70
Gamers want the best performance, speed, graphics, sound quality, and connectivity. That is why this laptop with its 17.3-inch full HD display with an 8-millisecond response time will blow them away.

With a gaming hardware under its hood, the Qosmio X70 is powered by a fourth-generation Intel Core processor and comes equipped with 16GB of RAM. Its dedicated GeForce GTX 770M graphics card comes with up to 3GB of GDDR5 video RAM, and is NVIDIA®’s second most powerful mobile GPU to date.

Plus, let the sounds excite you with this computer’s four integrated Harman Kardon® stereo speakers that handle the X70’s sound, with a 6-watt output of DTS Studio Sound. The Qosmio X70 comes in an attractive and distinct red aluminium color. All this and more for a selling price of PhP129,990.

All Toshiba PCs and tablets are backed by Toshiba’s extensive service and support. The company’s SelectServ Program allows users to customize their notebook’s warranty coverage, depending on their budget and needs. For more information, visit Toshiba’s webiste.

WINDOW SHOPPER | iGrab everything you want at online shop’s new physical store

From: http://www.interaksyon.com/lifestyle/window-shopper-igrab-everything-you-want-at-online-shops-new-physical-store


Text and Photos by Ana Valenzuela · Friday, July 19, 2013 · 11:11 pm

Executives formally open the iGrab physical store at Resorts World Manila. Photo by Ana Valenzuela, InterAksyon.com.

Afraid of being duped out of the money, as let’s face it, there are online stories circulating which people who cannot get the items, products, or  services that they want.

Here comes iGrab.ph a new player in the online shopping industry, which was launched in  October last year.iGrab differs from other online stores as it recently launched a physical store at the ground floor of the Newport Mall at Resorts World Manila. Situated beside the mall entrance, the site’s shoppers can redeem the items that they have bought online.

“The physical store is mainly a redemption outlet. For example you bought a watch or a perfume, and you are here in Resorts World Manila, you can claim it here,” Jay Anthony D. Padua, IGrab’s AVP for Marketing discussed. All consumers need to do is provide the coupon they have received through email, proof that they have bought from the online store and the item will be theirs. Some of the items can be purchased on the kiosk using the online platform with the computers provided for. Padua discloses, “if these products are within the store you can buy them outright.”

iGrab offers a range of products and services at special promotional prices.

Just like other online shops and group buying sites, iGrab offers goods from luxury items to vacation getaways at a discounted price.  A brands page can be even viewed for people who want to know what labels plus how much price off they can get from this shopping outlet.

Apart from the usual items, iGrab also has discounted tickets to activities and events. It can give its customers affordable access to Resorts World Manila events as it has a marketing partnership with the one of Manila’s top destination.  iGrab gives discounts to upcoming shows such as Cinderella and even movie deals for PhP80, and more.

According to Padua, iGrab continues to strive to look for new merchants as well as give the consumers new campaigns.  “We thought that this (the physical store, ecommerce and group buying site) is the easiest way to get customers to easily adapt to this marketing platform and promotions for our merchants,” Padua shared.

With great discounts, anyone will definitely start grabbing deals anytime now. Browse through iGrab, and see the bargains for yourself, but if you are afraid of using that credit card, or making a deposit, then go to Resorts World Manila and check out the walloping price off.

iGrab is a virtual shopping  outlet by NetDeals, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Global Group, Inc.,  Alliance Global Group, Inc. is the group behind Megaworld Corporation, Emperador Distillers, and many more successful brands.

A peek at the stylish physical shop of online store iGrab at Resorts World Manila. Photo by Ana Valenzuela, InterAksyon.com.