Chapter 203 The Water Here is Really Deep
Zhang Lingxi didn't understand what was so good about investigating the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. She was a student majoring in materials chemistry, and to be honest, she knew how to use computers, but she didn't know much about other information.
When Lu Shan asked her about the development of various computer companies in Xia Country, she was very confused.
Because her family is well-off and she has received this level of education, she has never considered buying a domestic computer, or to be more precise, a domestic brand computer, because domestic brand computers still use foreign chips, motherboards, memory and other hardware.
Just a quick search on the Internet shows that the sales of domestic computer brands, except for Lianxiang, are really terrible.
Foreign brands are at the top, with shipments showing up long in the graph, while domestic computers are at the bottom, with shipments so small that they are almost invisible.
All the companies combined do not have as many as Lianxiang, which ranks fourth.
It can also be seen from here how competitive Lianxiang is among many domestic brands.
As for Shuimu Tongfang, even though there are internal purchase orders, there is almost no shipment volume.
Lianxiang not only has internal orders, but has also gained recognition in the general consumer market and has firmly established its reputation.
At this time, foreign capital entered Lianxiang.
There is still a question mark around the words "national brand".
"How miserable..." Zhang Lingxi couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the sales of domestic computers.
Lu Shan couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "If they weren't miserable, I wouldn't have gone to investigate them."
As soon as the plane landed, Lu Shan took Zhang Lingxi to Huaqiangbei to investigate the market.
When I arrived at the streets of Huaqiangbei, I saw backpackers wandering around everywhere, and many people were walking around with things in suitcases. There were many electronic products on the stalls.
These stalls are extremely simple. Some are just a piece of cloth, some are just a small table, and some are simply backpacks and suitcases. One can't help but wonder if these people had just done a transaction in the building in Huaqiangbei and immediately came out to sell at a higher price, just to make money without having to worry about it.
You know what, business is really booming.
This was the eve of the emergence of smart phones, and many highly creative small factories and workshops in Guangdong Province had already produced large-screen button mobile phones.
The development of laptops and computers has far exceeded imagination. Many avant-garde ideas have been DIYed. They certainly don’t work well in operation because they are limited by the performance of the computer itself, but the ideas are really good.
Lu Shan took Zhang Lingxi into the crowded crowd and swam with difficulty.
"There are so many people!" Zhang Lingxi has always been in an ivory tower and has never seen such a scene before, so he is a little uncomfortable.
There were too many people, and the smell of everyone was very complicated.
"People from all over the world come to Huaqiangbei to buy goods, so there must be a lot of people." Lu Shan didn't care at all. He was looking for a stall and suddenly stopped. A store with a large area on the street attracted their attention. It was Lianxiang's store.
The fact that Lianxiang can afford such a large store in such a land-scarce place shows its strength.
"Let's go in and take a look!" Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi walked in.
The salesperson inside looked at Lu Shan's overly young face, then at Zhang Lingxi's overly ignorant face, and immediately lost interest.
These two people looked like a young couple who came in to hang out.
Lu Shan was dressed very simply, and his clothes were clean and tidy, but they were also high school clothes and had no sense of design at all.
Zhang Lingxi comes from a good family, but she concentrates on her research and has never spent time on dressing up. She doesn't even have blush on her face.
Under normal circumstances, light travels in a straight line. If there is matter with too much gravity, it may be distorted due to the collapse of space.
This kind of matter with huge gravitational force is a black hole in the universe and the power of capital on Earth.
So the salesperson's eyes bypassed Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi and looked at a pot-bellied boss who came in later.
He went up to greet people enthusiastically, led them into the store enthusiastically, and introduced them enthusiastically, but Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi were nowhere to be seen.
Even though Zhang Lingxi was slow, he understood. Just as he was about to say something, Lu Shan waved his hand and said, "It's better if no one talks. I'll be more quiet. Let's see for ourselves."
After walking around, Lu Shan saw many computer models inside. He took a look and had an idea in his mind.
As far as laptops are concerned, Lianxiang's general configuration in the second half of 2009 was a hard drive of about 512GB, a memory of about 1G, and a CPU frequency that was not high, 2GHZ was considered good. Pentium dual-core had already appeared and was generally used in student laptops.
"Excuse me, are there any other models?" Lu Shan really didn't want to look for it anymore, so he asked the salesperson.
"The high-end machines are in that area." The salesperson pointed to the area near the cash register and turned around to continue talking to the purchasing boss. He ordered twenty units right away. What a big order!
Lu Shan didn't mind and took Zhang Lingxi to the high-end area. It turned out to be ThinkPad T400 and X200, which are indeed high-end machines on the market. They cost tens of thousands of yuan, which is indeed high-end, but looking at the configuration inside, it is not much better than the average. It seems that the price is not entirely based on performance, but on scarcity.
"It can use DDR3 memory sticks, the general size is 3G, the maximum is 8G, the frequency is , dual-core, the capacity is 500G, the rotation speed is 5400 revolutions per minute, wow." Lu Shan read softly. He is a reborn person. Looking at such configuration and such price, he can't help but sigh. The things back then were really bad, but he was flocking to them.
The performance of desktop computers is naturally better, but there is a limit to how good they can be.
The price premium of Lianxiang desktop computers and laptops is very serious. Even if the configurations are very high, it is not so serious. The brand effect gives wings to the price.
Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi left Lianxiang's store. Although they didn't like the salesperson chattering in their ears, they also didn't like the salesperson looking at them with cold eyes, as that showed too much respect for the customers.
"Where do we go next?"
"Find the store of Shenchuan Company." Lu Shan came here this time just to cooperate with Shenchuan because its situation was the worst.
In fact, cooperation is just like stock trading: buy when the price drops and don’t buy when the price rises.
Shenchuan's own configuration is not low, and it is also an OEM, so it shouldn't have ended up like this. The problem lies in that its own processing level is indeed not high, and its system optimization capability is too poor, resulting in the product having only configuration but unable to exert sufficient performance, and it was abandoned over time.
The store of Shenchuan Company was not easy to find. After asking around, Lu Shan finally found Shenchuan at a stall in an electronic accessories building.
That’s right, in order to save costs, Shenchuan Company did not even rent a store, but only rented a stall in the electronics mall building.
While searching for the magic ship, Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi discovered several Lianxiang Computer stores. They were all large, crowded with people, and doing very good business.
"Do we really want to cooperate with it?" Zhang Lingxi couldn't bear to see that Shenchuan was deserted. Lianxiang couldn't do it, so how could Shenchuan, which was so pitiful, do it?
"It's not decided yet. Let's go in and take a look first. At least there's a place to shelter from the wind and rain, which is not bad!" Lu Shan didn't care. Whoever he helped would win. Why should he care about how dilapidated the divine ship is now?
"What do you want to see? If you have any questions, just call me!" As soon as I entered the stall, the salesperson from Shenchuan came over and greeted me with a warm face.
"I'll take a look first. If I don't understand, I'll ask you."
"Okay!" After saying that, the salesperson really turned around and went about his own business. He didn't follow around, nor did he pay too much attention. This kind of distanced sales approach made socially anxious people like Zhang Lingxi very comfortable.
Lu Shan looked carefully at the computer of the Shenchuan. To be honest, there were not many things and he finished looking through them within ten minutes.
The salesperson never came over, but glanced at Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi from time to time. The two young men didn't call them, so he naturally didn't come over.
"The configuration is indeed good, but the workmanship is really bad. The running experience is really bad. Many mainstream programs and software do not run smoothly. The price is relatively low and it is suitable for students from ordinary families." Lu Shan had an idea in mind.
After looking at it, Lu Shan did not leave the stall, but chatted with the salesperson for a while and took a look at the sales situation.
Now is the golden time for sales, but not many people come to Shenchuan’s stall, not even wholesalers are seen.
After leaving the Shenchuan stall, Lu Shan and Zhang Lingxi walked around the accessories building, and he understood why Shenchuan's business was so bad.
As far as desktop computers are concerned, the price of building a computer yourself is almost the same as Shenchuan, and the performance is much better. If you have hands-on skills and want to build a computer yourself, why would you buy a Shenchuan computer?
The situation of laptops is actually not that good either. Laptops are not only judged by their configuration but also their appearance. In this regard, the Shenchuan is too bad.
"Wow, a computer here only costs 3500 and has such a good configuration!" Zhang Lingxi had never been to such a place and was very curious.
Lu Shan poured cold water on her, "It's written like that, but there's no guarantee for the goods. Many of them are dismantled old goods, repaired and then sold, and some are refreshed with hardware parameters. There are no problems in the short term, but it's more troublesome to run them."
"Ah? The water is so deep."
"That's right, you get what you pay for. If possible, try to buy the parts from regular channels and build one yourself. At least the quality is guaranteed."
After shopping for a while, they both had an intuitive understanding of the assembly machine market. The business was good, but the quality and price were too bad. If they did business with such a store, they would have to add some conditions to avoid damaging the reputation of Bansi Company.
They found a hotel with nice scenery, booked two rooms, and stayed in Shenzhen.
Zhang Lingxi was puzzled. The inspection was over, but there was no discussion about cooperation. What was the point of staying here?
But Lu Shan’s arrangements are never aimless, so just choose to believe them.
For the next two days, the two of them went to nearby attractions, the seaside, the beach, the shopping mall, and just wandered around.
"Do we not have to go to work?" Zhang Lingxi asked Lu Shan half-jokingly. Actions without a purpose always made her feel a little uncomfortable.
"I'm waiting for the opportunity, so just enjoy yourself. You won't have many opportunities to relax in the future." Lu Shan was still warm and gentle. He had sent a lot of food from Shenzhen City to the Yingling Space these days.
Shenzhen has a large immigrant population with very diverse tastes. If they returned to Jiangzhou, there would definitely not be such rich food for Poincare and Turing.
Lu Shan bought roast goose and took it to Singularity Laboratory.
(End of this chapter)
