Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:45:53 03/29/01
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On March 27, 2001 at 23:57:02, Albert Silver wrote: >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. >>> >>>A dual represents 500 bucks for 2x800 or so. I don't know what the exchange >>>rate is, but that can't be huge... >> >> >> >>Where I live you need much more money to buy a dual. >> > >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. :-) > why can't a local store there buy a dual MB and put the machine together for you? Obviously no one in Brazil is actually manufacturing motherboards, so they are imported anyway. And since the price between a dual MB and a single cpu MB are so close, you ought to be able to find someone that can make you a good deal?
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