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Where did you get the numbers/data from:
This is not true
#Fake info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLAqu6bF0I

yeah I concur with dewhaley, it should run just 'FINE' but also check your Graphic card configuration.

Yeah,
Exclusive of generic parts like RAM,HDD and Screen.
When you have a board or design specific fault you will certainly spend more.

Emeka71 I totally forgot about TOSHIBA but from my Experience it a Nice laptop but maybe be careful with the AMD versions and Though you'll see spare parts, get ready to spend more.

@beautycrush24 Yeah 4GB would be "Just OK" for optimal performance try 8GB

So, you saved or coughed up your hard earned money and will like to get your self a nice PC and you head to the one place you know you can buy it cheaply, you get through the trouble and hassle, get dragged by the com boys who seem to always either want to buy or sell you some laptop, ok let's say you get lucky or smart and ignore those com guys and head to a proper shop but you not yet in heaven as it's either you know what you are buying or you become what they call "Otele"

So Here are a few tips you have to know before heading to buying:

1.If the laptop has even the slightest sign of been used, Then it's probably used, see, it only takes about 10 minutes to turn a 3rd hand laptop into a new one body wise but it's speed will certainly drag and will have a life span of about 6 months before you start paying money on repairs for a supposedly new laptop

2.Don't, I mean don't ever buy a laptop with unknown brand name or grounded repair centers as you'll come to regret this at most 1 year later, Stick with the known Brands like Apple,HP,Dell,Samsung,Lenovo, Asus and be careful with even Asus as the internal architecture is always different and hard to find spare part

3. If you ever notice the seller is trying to HONESTLY convince you not to buy a particular system but another, My brother this is not the time to claim wise Solomon or choice, just add some money and buy the one he's referring you to buy, most times it's because the one you want is slightly faulty or low grade

4. Have a configuration in mind before going to the Market, If you are using it for Clerical office works then any Config not below 2GB RAM, 250 HDD and 1.70 GHz CPU will do but if it's for Graphics, Video editting, programing, 3D or any memory intensive work then have a mind on 8GB RAM, 500GB-1TB HDD and Core i3-7 will do.

Finally always ask for a signed and or stamped receipt and keep it religiously.
You can also check out website like Jumai or Konga or [url]Cubemaw.com[/url], I'll be glad to help if you have any other questions to ask here or mail me.

There are strong indications that Nigeria’s ecommerce powerhouse, Africa Internet Group (AIG)-owned Jumia will sack 50% of its workers this week. This is coming few months after it sacked about 30% of its workforce.

The latest sack is seen as a move by the company towards drastically reducing its expenses and striving towards profitability.

Even though Jumia is not the only tech company that has sacked workers in recent times, the fact that the company is firing most of its workers few months after it sacked 30% of its staff has become a major concern in Nigeria’s ecommerce space. This in effect has created an uneasy mental state, made working in Jumia tiring and less motivating as employees go to work stressed out over the anxiety of getting fired at any time

In an exclusive interview with TechCity, several former Jumia workers confirmed the development and they said the company is spending a lot on salaries, overhead and marketing.

“But from what I heard, they have reduced marketing spend,” an ex-Jumian said.

However, another ex-Jumian said the development at Jumia wasn’t just as a result of the high cost being incurred, she said it was due to the decision of the company to restructure its operations prompting it to cut down its workforce. However, she said the company failed to invest in its employees.

“They didn’t invest in their employees ahead of time. Some of their employees were those that structured Konga and other ecommerce platforms.”



Warehouse closure + Jumia marketplace à merger with Kaymu?

There are also reports that Jumia is emptying its warehouse with the long term plan to focus entirely on running the platform as a marketplace. This is similar to what DealDey did after it closed it outlets and outsourced its logistics services. But if this eventually happens to Jumia, the company would be doing what a similar Africa Internet Group (AIG) company, Kaymu, is doing. Many stakeholders also believe that this will eventually lead to the merger of Jumia and Kaymu.

“I foresee them merging Jumia and Kaymu, that has always been the plan anyway,” a Jumia insider told TechCity.

Does this mean ecommerce is not yet viable in Nigeria?

With this familiar trend of ecommerce companies firing workers in large numbers as a way to save cost, industry watchers and investors may begin to wonder whether the sector is not as flourishing as the media has pitched it to be, but a closer look at the developments in the various ecommerce companies would show that ecommerce is indeed viable in the country but at a high cost – usually due to Nigeria’s peculiar infrastructural and logistic challenges.

When the major ecommerce companies launched about five years ago, they were just testing the Nigerian waters, nobody really knew what was working.

“Ecommerce only work when you have large volume – when you have a lot of customers. Out of all these people, Jumia still has the highest number of sales. Konga is not making money, and it has the worst model of them all. Konga use to spend money without tracking anything. Konga has outsourced their logistics now. They want to expand across Africa like AIG but I don’t see that working out for them,” an anonymous respondent said.

It has emerged that outsourcing logistics services is the best approach of ecommerce companies interested in cutting costs. The rule is simple – if you don’t outsource, you will continue investing money in logistics infrastructure – because logistics is where most of the money is spent.

Tunde Kehinde’s ACE.ng

With the future of ecommerce in Nigeria gradually becoming one that is entirely built on outsourcing, industry watchers are beginning to think Tunde Kehinde, one of the original founders of Jumia Nigeria made the right decision when he decided to launch ACE.ng, a logistics outfit following his exit from Jumia. But it appears things are not working either at the company.

“ACE is not doing well. All the ecommerce companies that ACE partnered with have dropped out because they had no structure that could manage ecommerce. I think the only partner they have now is Chicken Republic – helping them manage their platform and helping them deliver. If they had a better strategy they would succeed but everyone I know has dropped them, even heels.com.ng,” an insider said.

To reduce cost and to have highly efficient logistics services would require looking outside Nigeria. In UK, the ecommerce companies use the mail, in USA, they also use the mail for deliveries. For Amazon and the rest, most of them partner FedEx and DHL for deliveries. In Nigeria, NIPOST would have been ideal but its service efficiency has depreciated over the years leaving the delivery and other logistics services in the hands of emerging logistics companies. The major problem in Nigeria is that logistics is very expensive and everyone sees it as opportunity to make so much money.

“An entrepreneur said if you order something from her and you use any of the delivery services, the least they (the delivery company) will ask for is NGN1,000. Jumia does it for NGN500 in Lagos. If we have more delivery services that are affordable, the burden of logistics would not be there and it would be easier for ecommerce traders to leverage on them,” she said.

Jumia’s action – bad but needed

Those that spoke to TechCity said Jumia was growing very fast, they hired so many people because their business model required them to do so.

The respondent said: “But if you are growing at that rate and you are scaling up so much, your revenue will not be able to meet up because you will still have to charge competitive prices that people will be able to afford, and you will still have to pay salaries”.

“In a typical tech startup, people can push themselves and deliver results. It was like that at Jumia in the beginning. But when you consider yourself as a big company, you’ll begin to hire people that you are not getting the right output from them.”

With the focus now on outsourcing logistics services, smaller entrepreneurs running ecommerce platforms now have a fighting chance since they no longer need millions of dollars to perfect their logistics plans. It’s now about central logistics services and the difference will only be who can spend more on marketing – or who can offer more superior services.

As Seen in techcityng.com

As an System Developer, I've had several experience where a random poorly identified police man stops Me with their bla bla bla and says they have to search, Please is it right for a police man to search one while they are going on with their business?

Delivery by drone is still relatively new in Nigeria and I think we still have a long way to go before we can fully implement it. Yudala is the first to actually carry out a successful delivery to a customer by drone. Other ecommerce platforms such as [url]Cubemaw.com[/url] and Konga are trying to implement it.
Now I believe that the whole point of delivering anything by drone is to save time and also save cost of paying couriers. So I really do not understand why after using a drone a staff will also go the customer and process the invoice. Then the staff should have just gone to deliver the product in the first place.
Also how far can these drones actually go? They run on battery and also they need wireless connection to be able to keep track of them. Assuming these drones are delivering an item to somewhere like Lekki from Yaba, that connection would have broken, so how do the merchants keep track of the items.
Also assuming the customer lives in a block of flats whereby there are lots of other flatmates and the drone gets to the apartment and somebody else disguises as the customer and retrieves the package, is there a way to avoid all these kind of issues and mix ups.
Knowing the kind of country we live in, we should be ready to face issues like this.
There is still a lot of work to be done concerning drones and their implementations in Nigeria mostly on Security.

Am not surprised that the aircraft has not been preserved or maintained in a museum, The federal Gov't has always been trying to burial the History of the Biafran war and it's blood sheds, Maybe beacuse Am in the science field but I can say the only way I got to know full details of the war was from a foreign documentary and the book "There was a Country" as we were never ought about the war.
#For Knowledge and History sake something should be done about this.

So you are walking in computer village and some random guy slides by you and offers you a clean iphone 6 at a ridiculous low price and it all good or you see a broke ass nigger feeling fly with his iPhone 6 and you are wondering how he could afford such a phone ,
well here's an easy way to find out if the phones are fake or not:
in terms of design and where the button placing are, The fake iPhones and the real ones are almost the same thing and I must say the rip-off guys did a nice job stealing the design but here are some simple clue to look out for
1. The fake iPhone6 pack comes with the picture of the iphone on the pack

2. The Fake phone is a little bit thicker

3. on the fake one's you have a thicker/Darker color on both lines and over-all body color

4. check the apple Logo to see if it looks like a cut out or just slide your finger over it, if it feels rough or bulging out then it's most likely a fake, plus on the real one the logo looks darker/smoked while on the fake it's more of a mirror

5. On the camera it clearly obvious to tell the fake from the real which includes a a perfectly circle flash and a bit bulgy camera while the fake has a rather flat camera and Finally you can check out the iTunes and see if it connects or go to about on settings, copy the serial or IMEL num paste it on apple care and see if it does not recognizes it then it's fake
So,I hope this helps you

Well,
Googled the laptop (Hp Spectre 13) and it sure was the slimmest laptop according to HP and some other Tech blog, Anyway slimmest or not it's sure sounds like something I'll definitely buy