Philips enters the notebook game in Brazil

Details are pretty sketchy right now, but it looks like Philips is set to release its first two notebooks in Brazil in December. The two models both fall on the smaller end of the scale, with an 11-inch magnesium alloy model rocking a U2400 Core Duo, a 120GB disk, 1GB of RAM and a dual-layer burner for R$5499 ($2477), and a piano black 13-inch model (pictured) sporting a T7300 Core 2 Duo, a 120GB disk, a dual layer burner and 2GB of RAM for R$3,999 ($2165). We're still looking for model numbers, but Philips says these were developed "specifically for the Brazilian market," so don't expect to see them turning up Stateside anytime soon. Check a pic of the 11-inch model at the read link.

[Thanks, Felipe]

[mushrooshi @ Nov 28th 2007 10:17PM]

It looks my my sister's Dell Inspiron...

[Kamall @ Nov 28th 2007 10:33PM]

That Phillips 11.1" notebook is a rebranded Twinhead F11Y, also rebranded again as the Averatec 1500

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/22220.jpg

http://www.elsniwiki.de/uploads/Main/twinhead_f11y3.jpg

[David @ Nov 29th 2007 12:48AM]

It looks nothing like the laptops in those pictures.....

[trancer @ Nov 28th 2007 10:43PM]

$2477? are you kidding?

[anderson @ Nov 29th 2007 7:32AM]

You tell me. We suffer with this taxes.

[Ricardo @ Nov 29th 2007 4:11PM]

That's nothing, considering a Dell M1330 costs around US$ 5000 here.

[Jhongerkong @ Nov 28th 2007 10:44PM]

Philips says these were developed "specifically for the Brazilian market,"


so what, does that mean we can kick it around like a soccer ball?

[Screen Deep @ Nov 28th 2007 11:20PM]

Yes, the Brazilian market is sooooo special. This PC, in fact, can not, I repeat, truly can not, be used in any other market. It is indeed so customized to the Brazilian market that ...

(Oh anyhow, just typical Philips bullshit).

[Luiz @ Nov 28th 2007 11:07PM]

Taxes in Brazil are very high, so if you want to make any profit you need a high price.

[Sauerkraut @ Nov 28th 2007 11:09PM]

Wow and I thought I had it hard

[seba @ Nov 28th 2007 11:23PM]

Sooner or later we have it in Argentina
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2311958

[Richard @ Nov 28th 2007 11:37PM]

Wow… They are really taking creativity to new levels with that one. Watch out Apple, Phillips is hot on your heals and it’s on the grow!

Seriously, that thing makes a Dell laptop look exciting.

[Ajousa @ Nov 28th 2007 11:45PM]

This is a Averatec computer, I think Philips just bought a lot and paste his name on it...Brazil are paying like 4x the real price!!! poor brazilians...

[jordan henderson @ Nov 29th 2007 12:06AM]

so i dont quite understand this....
why is the crappy stuff going UP in price?
also, fire your laptop designer hes shit

[asian adult tube @ Nov 29th 2007 12:29AM]

Why the price is very high, i think there is no more competition in brazil or what?

[Coldfire @ Nov 29th 2007 1:44AM]

The only competition is in the black market (smuggled so it doesn't pay the abusive import taxes) and just now Sony and Philips are starting t produce them in here, it will still cost 4x times the normal price because they still need to import everything to make the laptops, and let's not forget the freaking abusive taxes (Brazil is the world with the highest taxes in the world)

[spaceb @ Nov 29th 2007 12:53AM]

It is cheap, $2165 for Core 2 Duo, 2 gig RAM, 120 GB HD is a pretty good deal in South America.

[Guilherme @ Nov 29th 2007 6:19AM]

so cheap for brazilians who earn 200 dolars per months .... so cheap ... ¬¬

[spaceb @ Nov 29th 2007 4:03PM]

Guilherme think before you write anything. It is cheap for what you get and that doesn't mean it is an affordable price.

[DrNick664 @ Nov 29th 2007 1:17AM]

Why can't it be pretty?

[ugg.tryptophan @ Nov 29th 2007 1:15PM]

like the women?

[Rik @ Nov 29th 2007 4:16AM]

So, from what I understand this is sort of a Dell e1505 with a $500 rebate? Poor Brazilians..., and since when is Philps in computers again?

[Armstrong @ Nov 29th 2007 4:46AM]

It looks good but I don't know if Philips makes what kind of laptop. There are already planty of them now. Don't we expect a bigger inovation or revolution of the computer?

[Rynth @ Nov 29th 2007 9:24AM]

Somethings got to be bad in brazil, they have all the great women.

[Common Core 2 Duo!! @ Nov 29th 2007 11:04AM]

that is rather cheap for what youre getting. Trust me. Brazil is very expensive when it comes to this kind of stuff.

This is ridiculously cheap

[Willy @ Nov 29th 2007 1:21PM]

First: Brazil has import duties, like the rest of the countries of the Mercosur common market. Those who bitch and scream like stabbed pigs about the prices of goods should look at prices in Britain, before they complain about their local prices.

But also, Brazil has an industry promotion law that favors local development. That is, if you import a finished product you pay the full import duties cost, but if you produce it locally you as a corporation are exempt of a lot of taxes, and often don't pay import duties on the components used to assemble them.

That's why there's LCD, PC and other electronics assembly factories in Brazil. And that, gee, puts food on the table of a lot of Brazilians.

Of course, the rich white elites -the same that vote far right governments and applauded military governments in the past- would prefer to have cheap notebooks and for the n*ggers to work as cab drivers only... do me and yourself a favor and get a life, then realize that there's no divine right to have the same internal US prices around the world, and that each country is allowed to have its own fiscal policy.

[Andrew @ Nov 29th 2007 7:26PM]

You should not mention Britain in this. If you convert the prices in the UK to Dollars it sounds insane - but it's not in local currency terms. And the average Brazilian earns a lot less than a US or UK citizen!

Also, go easy on the racism will you? You don't have to bitch about the rich white elite etc.

[Dudu P @ Dec 4th 2007 12:37PM]

Willy,

Are you from Brazil? You have no idea what you're talking about.