The Westchester Co. Market Pro Computer Show: A review.

The Westchester county computer show is in town (White Plains, NY) this weekend. The Show is sponsored by Market Pro. www.marketpro.com The Westchester County Center web site (view Site) boast this: "Computer Show and sale! Up to 50% in savings. Millions in merchandise available for sale including: laptops, full computers, motherboards, monitors, hard drives, printers, CPU's memory, modems, zip drives and more!" But after I paid the $7.00 admission fee, (There is a $1.00 discount on the Market Pro Web Site)I was disappointed to find only 60-70 tables. of those tables 50-60 were computer vendors, The others where gifts, household goods and other unrelated merchandise. The show is a good place to go if you are looking to build your own custom computer from scratch. There were about 5 vendors that sold a complete line of computer components. But if you were looking to purchase a laptop or any other off the shelf product, The prices were about $30-$75 higher than most of the big name retailers in Manhattan. There was one very interesting table that sported the i9, The Chinese made copy of the iphone. This phone looks like the Apple iphone but is slightly smaller and much lighter. The phone's operating system is written entirely in Java, instead of C (actually objective-C) It is an impressive effort to say the least, but notable drawbacks are installing new applications are practically impossible and the graphical display is medium resolution. The big advantage that the iphone does have is a memory card slot. I would have bought one except it did not have a 3G to USB bridge like netPDA net PDA. If you have never seen the i9 here is a good link to view the phones. i9 Phone. This vendor also had the Chinese made copies of the ipods which were selling for $25 and looked exactly like the real thing.