It’s that time of the year again when the biggest consumer computer show — IT Show ’09 — hits Singapore.

Running from March 12th to 15th (today to this Sunday), the IT Show takes up floors one to six of the Suntec convention centre. The show opens daily at 12pm and ends at 9pm during this four-day period.

IT Show is really huge this year. All three Singapore telcos have big booths. M1 and SingTel are on floor 2, and StarHub is on floor 3. Floor 4 is the main hall with all the big consumer brands like HP, Canon and Samsung, whilst floor 6 hosts all the small chapalang IT gadgets vendors, from computer games to memory cards to GPS gadgets.

It might be a down economy, but it sure didn’t seem like it as the place was thronged with people this morning when I went. In certain places — especially on the fourth floor near the popular booths — you will get stuck in a human traffic jam trying to squeeze past the milling crowd. This weekend will be a nightmare to find parking if you’re visiting the show, so public transport is advised.

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Looking for a cheap hard disk drive to store all your pix? Waiting to pounce on a good deal for that 42-inch plasma or portable laptop? This week’s the week to jostle with the crowd at PC Show at Suntec City.

If there’s something to go by, the last tech show here – IT Show in March – saw the best deal then for a 1TB hard disk. It was $199 for a WD external HDD. Sure enough, it was snapped up.

Look out for more bargains this week too.

Info here: http://www.thepcshow.com.sg/index.htm