Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:17:43 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 10:42:04, Christophe Theron wrote: >> > > >When I buy by email, I pay taxes which are made up so the end price is less >interesting than buying in stores. > >I have bought my PalmIIIx two years ago from Outpost. I have been forced to >because I could not even find it in the stores here. But I have paid some 20% of >taxes. > >Yes my country puts up walls with these taxes. > >Now, what do you suggest? > >FYI it's the same in many countries. > > That is easy. Buy a dual MB via the internet. For under 100 bucks US. Pay the 20% tax and you are now out 120 bucks. Buy another CPU just like the one you already have. I assume you _can_ buy those locally. As a result, for 120 dollars US, plus the cost of a single CPU, you just doubled your computational speed. You can continue to use all your old peripherals, even the stock power supply, with no problems... >Have you been in the caribbean? Yes > >Have you been in Africa? Yes. > >Have you been in India? Yes. > >Have you been in South America? > Yes. >Open your eyes, Bob. > > And China. And Japan. And Canada. And most of Europe. And the former Soviet Union. Eyes are _always_ open... at least here.. > > > >I have lived in places where you can feed a family for one month with this >couple bucks. So? When I was an undergraduate student, with a wife (no kids) we _lived_ on 250 bucks a month in the late 1960's. From that we paid for food, rent, car, etc. For a family that lives on 200 bucks a month you probably are not going to find them buying a computer. So that really doesn't affect things. I am saying you can buy a dual-cpu machine (dual 800 for example) for less money than you will spend to buy a single 1.2ghz PIV. You will have a faster machine. _if_ you have software that uses two cpus or you run two or more applications at the same time. I really don't care what it costs to put a dual together in South Timbuktu, because they probably don't even have single-cpu machines there in any number. But most of the free world has access to amazingly inexpensive dual hardware platforms at incredibly attractive prices. If a government suppresses technology, not much we can do about it. But not _every_ government behaves like that, fortunately. I happen to live in such a place. > >OK, this family does not care much about a single or dual processor computer... > >However in some countries this amount of money really makes a difference. > > > I would not suggest otherwise. But in a country where 200 dollars makes a difference, I'll bet they don't have computers in any numbers anyway. > > > >Current price HERE for 128Mb SDRAM 133 is FF 690, that is approximately $94. > >I can get it for a little less but in this case the product has to be ordered >overseas (in France actually) and will take several days to be available. And >for this I must pay in advance. And if the hardware has a problem it must be >returned to France for repairing or exchange. > >So I am almost forced to pay a little bit more and buy from a company that as >the products available in quantity here. > > Why? I order things all the time, with the knowledge that if there is a problem, it has to go back to the supplier. I haven't received a bad DIMM in years. And I have bought _hundreds_ of computers for our labs. I buy the cheapest price because I buy so many. And I haven't had any problems at all. IE if my fancy new IBM 10K RPM LVDS drives go bad, I have to get an RMA from IBM anyway, no matter _where_ I bought the drive. It doesn't matter whether I bought it from a discount house or from the local IBM office. > > > Christophe
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