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DepEd allegedly bought Pentium 4 PCs for PHP400,000 each

During the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Department of Education (DepEd) had malicious over-priced deals with its suppliers. What caught our attention are the supplied PCs that cost PHP400,000 each unit for an obsolete configuration.

According to the exclusive report of News5, three suppliers of books and PCs had dealings with DepEd officials that expect million peso kickbacks from these overpriced supplies. Books are priced around PHP200-PHP300 but actually they should only cost around a hundred. Now the more surprising part, Pentium 4 PCs with Windows 98 are priced at staggering PHP400,000/unit.

Here is the PC configuration:
1.8Ghz Intel Pentium 4
128MB DDR
1.44 Floppy Disk Drive
52x CD-ROM Drive
56 kbps internal modem
40GB HDD
GeForce 4 w/ 128MB DDR
Windows 98 SE

A 21″ CRT monitor is also included plus other accessories like keyboard, mouse, microphone, speakers, and AVR. Well it’s a complete PC set but not for almost half-million even during the 2008-2010 era.

If we are to put it in today’s setting, PHP400,000 can give you four 27″ iMacs, three top-of-the-line gaming notebooks, two 6-core with dual GPU Mac Pro, or even a decent automobile. What would you rather have for education with PHP400,000?

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This article was contributed by Daniel Morial, a film school graduate and technology enthusiast. He's the geeky encyclopedia and salesman among his friends for anything tech.

95 Responses

  1. Avatar for metre9dmt metre9dmt says:

    pati ba naman Dep Ed na-corrupt na rin?! Hindi na rin ako nag-tataka. Tingnan nyo lang ang balitang ito:
    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/focus/06/02/14/qc-school-comfort-room-used-faculty-area
    Sana mahuli ang may kagagawan at ibiyahe na yan… ;-)

    Sayang, IT/Computer subjects should be a good thing to our students…

  2. Avatar for Penoy Penoy says:

    Kung aasa lang tayo na maparusahan ang mga corrupt sa gobyerno ng mga nasa gobyerno din, good luck na lang. Tanggapin nyo na lang na hindi matatapos ang sirkulasyong ito. Ang dapat magkaroon dito ay assassination para magdalawang isip ang mga yan bago gumawa ng katarantaduhan. Di matatalo mga yan sa larong alam na alam nila dahil sa tagal na nilang ginagawa.

  3. Avatar for Dansoy Dansoy says:

    Pang AlienWare na set oh! 400,000,oo php tsk!

  4. Avatar for boytalon boytalon says:

    boom kupit

  5. Avatar for justcurious justcurious says:

    This is where our taxes go.

    Magbayad ng sapat, kurakot katapat.

  6. Avatar for chikadoo chikadoo says:

    tanginang gobyerno yan

  7. Avatar for elmo dialing elmo dialing says:

    mukha ngang surplus yan e. apat 400, di marunong IT ng DepEd o talagang kulimbat lang talaga ang kailangan nila.

  8. Avatar for JasonBourne JasonBourne says:

    Kung totoo man to madaming mga bata na sana makakapagaral ng libre ngayong pasukan or kung hindi man madagdagan man lng facilities sa school na makakatulong sa pagaaral n mga bata. tsk tsk
    WIN95 or 98 pa ata OS nyan e tapos diskette pa na ndi na available ngayon.

  9. Avatar for allen allen says:

    mga ungas kayo

  10. Avatar for arnold arnold says:

    so far for the computers we received recently, mas lower at katanggaptanggap na ang price.

  11. Avatar for outlaw outlaw says:

    pupukpok ko sa mga ulo nila yan mga putang ina nila nila kurakot masyado!

  12. Avatar for reggie reggie says:

    Pentium 4 nga lng yan pero my free sasakyan nmn e..kaya 400k yan..but then again sa kanila ang freebee. o_O

  13. Avatar for OFW OFW says:

    Napaka walanghiya, pero sino ba dapat sisihin? Karamihan kasi sa Pilipino ignorante. Binoboto kahit baboy and patapon sa lipunan. Kung hindi mawawala ang pagiging ignorante nang Pilipino hindi aahon ang Pilipino. Ang tanong bakit maraming ignorante? Kasi ginagawa lahat nung mga politiko at mayayamang tao para sa panahon nag eleksyon ay kaya nilang ulolin ang mga botanti. Kaya hanggang karamihan sa Pilipino ay ignorante wala tayung pag-asang umahon at ang nagpapayaman lang ay ang mga nasa kapangyarihan
    sana wag mag balat sibuyas and pilipino at aminin ang mali para makapagbago -SALAMAT

  14. Avatar for nermd nermd says:

    And who was the secretary of education during that period? None other than Janet Napoles’ mentor:
    Florentino ‘Butch’ Abad Jr!

  15. Avatar for WATCHtheEFFINGvideo WATCHtheEFFINGvideo says:

    Okay, did somebody even WATCHED the entirety of the video posted by TV5? If you did, we’re on the same page. If not, trying watching it (linked by the author) and pause at 0:54.

    The list contains not just the allegedly overpriced computer set, but also a lot of materials (read: A LOT) that makes up the bulk of the price, it even includes a 21″ TV (no specifics). And the year was 2003, notarized in 2004. Am I missing something here? Or just another piece of sensationalist news?

    • Avatar for wew wew says:

      binasa mo ba talaga ung article?hindi lang naman ung mismong basic computer set ang tinutukoy na nagkakahalaga ng 400k,basahin mo uli nang malaman mo na included naman sa purchase ung ibang accessories.tingin mo ba kahit maraming accessories aabot siya ng 400k?seriously?!

  16. Avatar for boy hasul boy hasul says:

    Ohh wtf deped!!!

  17. Avatar for Zobel Zobel says:

    We built this country. We built this country on rock and roll!!!!!!

    – Freemasons

  18. Avatar for hanzo hanzo says:

    maybe its time for the kidnap for ransom crooks to kidnap and abuse these scumbags. if they can afford that pc, they can afford to be kidnapped and abused.

  19. Avatar for Juan Juan says:

    Puro lang naman kasi kayo satsat! kaya lagi nilang ginagawa yan kasi walang lumalaban! ayaw nyo mag rebolusyon! tinatanggap nyo lang ang mali, GISING na mga PINOY REBOLUSYON NA!

  20. Avatar for mr.yoso mr.yoso says:

    tama na sobra na sila, pagod na mga magulang natin sa kakatrabaho.. pagod na tau sa kakatrabaho at nag aral pa tau ng ilang taon, pero ganito lang gagawin ng mga nakaupong mga opisyal na yan.. napaisip nalang ako.. ang yaman sana natin kung walang kurakot..

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