Author: Albert Silver
Date: 20:57:02 03/27/01
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On March 27, 2001 at 22:43:28, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>You are very lucky to live in a place where you can get all kind of high tech
>>>stuffs for a fraction of your monthly salary, but in other countries a dual
>>>represents a huge amount of money.
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>>A dual represents 500 bucks for 2x800 or so. I don't know what the exchange
>>rate is, but that can't be huge...
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>Where I live you need much more money to buy a dual.
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Same here. I just upgraded my computer and even considered a dual for a
laughable two seconds. One look at the 4 digit prices and I began choosing
between my single CPU options (T-Bird 1Ghz + Asus A7V = US$ 500-550 here in
Brazil). Ordering from abroad is no solution as the import tariffs will quickly
balance things out. In theory, you'd think that this would be to help
incentivate Brazilian technology to develop on its own and be able to compete,
but as it is, its only purpose is to make computers expensive to get.
Of course, I don't live here because of the availability of high-tech. :-)
>>>For example, a dual represents more than my average monthly salary.
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>>You _really_ make less than $500 US dollars per month?
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>No, it's just that a dual here costs much more than $500.
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>Sometimes I wonder if you have ever travelled outside USA...
>>>Remember that all this is about what you get for the money, what you need really
>>>and is it worth it.
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>>Almost all new PCs have 256mb of RAM.
64 Mb for entry level, and 128 Mb for upper-end is standard here. I could pick
up 128 Mb for roughly $80. Also, the speeds/prices are usually a few increments
behind, so that things take several months to begin to filter the markets here,
and when they do, though the prices in the US may have dropped several times in
the interim, they will be a LOT more expensive than their slightly slower
siblings.
Albert
>>128mb DIMMS are selling for 50 bucks
>>nowadays, so going to 512mb adds $100 to the price of the machine. And the
>>machines I use are pretty much all 512mb boxes... This seems to work
>>acceptably.
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>Again: the prices in the US have nothing to do with the prices OUTSIDE.
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