When it comes to notebook computers, people become especially fussy.
Notebooks not made in Japan or the United States are almost immediately overlooked, however power-packed the specifications may be.
The Stamp Slim Book, sold by South China House of Technology Consultants in North Point, is a made-in-Taiwan system and its only hook is price.
At just $14,300, you get a 12.1-inch TFT display, 4.8 gb of hard disk, a 24x CD-Rom drive and an Intel Celeron 400 MHz processor.
That's a good bargain. For an almost similarly configured Dell system, you will have to pay about $2,000 more.
The Stamp Slim Book, despite its name, is no swan. It is heavy and not slim. Nor is it a monster - considering it is housing a CD-Rom, battery and floppy-disk drive in one form-factor, it is relatively slimmer than similarly configured systems.