Dylan Smith schrieb:
On 2007-12-20, Jay Honeck wrote:
You mean this neat little $399 Compaq laptop I'm happily pecking away
on would cost $800 in Martin's Austrian world?

Dunno about Austria, but in the local Tesco's (a supermarket) you can
pick up a reasonably specced PC laptop for a couple of hundred (i.e.
around $400).

a PC (midi tower) with a celeron 420 CPU, 1 gig ram, 160gig harddisc,
dvd-burner, no os: about 200,- euros without vat = 240,- euros with vat.

www.xe.net calculates 200,- euros to 287,- us-dollars.

due to the current exchange rate this and all other things from euroland
are expensive (or they have to sell with less profit). how about prices
for european made cars in the US?

Since all computer manufacture moved to the Far East, the price
difference between US and UK prices has not been all that great (mainly,
just VAT).


and as another poster said: yes, flying to the US and buying over there
is cheap. I once calculated roundtrip, 1 week car rental, 1 week motel,
check out and 10 hours of C172 is a tad cheaper than renting 10 hours
here locally. due to the exchange rate it might be even cheaper today.

My last stay in the US in 2002 would cost me today about 50% of the
money I paid back then.

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