Pantip Plaza Bangkok

Inside Pantip Plaza

Pantip Plaza is an indoor IT shopping mall located on New Phetchaburi Road in Ratchathewi district, Bangkok, Thailand. The sale of counterfeit software and DVDs are some reasons behind this mall's success and notoriety. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 275 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 275 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 310 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (414 × 800 pixel, file size: 202 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 310 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (414 × 800 pixel, file size: 202 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)is: the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Swindon, England, a shopping mall built within a disused railway engine works. ... Ratchathewi (Thai ราชเทวี) is a district in central Bangkok, Thailand. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The copyright infringement of software refers to several practices when done without the permission of the copyright holder: Creating a copy and/or selling it. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Trading Hours

Pantip Plaza is open daily from 10.00 to 21.00. The stores within the plaza are free to operate their own hours so by 19.30-20.00 many of the stores are already closing down.

Software

Legitimate licensed software remains unpopular for the majority of Pantip shoppers due to high prices and the availability of counterfeit versions of the same software. Prices of counterfeit software, DVDs and games range from about 100 to 300 baht (USD 2.50-8). Thai banknotes and coins. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

A few publishers, such as Blizzard Entertainment, offer licensed "for sale in Thailand only" software with localized Thai packaging and manuals at prices in the $8-$20 range. Blizzard Entertainment is an American based computer game developer and publisher. ...

As of December 2005, purchasing pirated software remains an easy and open practice, despite the occasional shuttering of all shops selling illegal software and entertainment CDs, DVDs, and VCDs during police checks. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... VCD can stand for: Video CD Voice command device Value Change Dump (IEEE 1364 Verilog) Value-Centered Design This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Hardware

Pantip contains three large retail shops and several hundred small shops specializing in parts, modifications, hardware, networking, second hand, laptops, Macintosh and peripherals. Of note is a wide selection of second-hand business machines from IBM, Gateway, and Dell. Most of these machines come via cargo ship from Western countries.^{[citation needed]} Recently hardware manufacturers such as Asus have reported the stolen hardware and are able to 'lock them down' when a specific peripheral is connected to the Asus website. The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Gateway, Inc. ... Dell Inc. ... ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ...

Pantip Plaza 2

Pantip Plaza 2 is a branch of Pantip Plaza. Location is Ngamwongwan Road in Nonthaburi.

Chiang Mai location

There is another Pantip Plaza in Chiang Mai, on the corner of Changkran Road and Sri Donchai Road. A street scene in Chiang Mai, showing (centre right), a gate of the old city wall. ... Changkran Road is the most famous shopping street in Chiang Mai just besides Tha Phe Road the main commercial and tourists street of the city. ...

In popular culture

• Pantip Plaza is featured in a hit song by Loso, "Pantip", which has a hook chorus, "mai pai Pantip" ("no go Pantip" or "I won't go to Pantip") and is about a man dating a woman and taking her shopping at World Trade Center, MBK Center and Siam Square, but he refuses to take her to Pantip Plaza.

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