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Or anywhere in Australia, where $530 is the best price in town

I'd happily take a phone that's a little fatter that gives me 30% more time.

Mod +1 Absolutely. You can buy external case/battery units, they make the phone slightly longer also, I'd rather have the manufacturer just make the phone (and battery) larger.

http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=phone+battery+case&spos=1

Real men build their own PC. Why buy a desktop in store, when you can order all the parts from the cheapest vendor online, then build the computer yourself? Here in Australia, we use;

http://www.staticice.com.au/

Spend a couple of hours reading reviews on motherboards, graphics cards etc, then hit up Staticice for the cheapest prices, and then wait a couple of days as all the parts arrive. This is much more fun than any in store bought experience.

All the monitors are 16x9 now (1920x1080). I have the same problem - I don't want to go "up" to 1920 from 1600x1200 (20" 4:3 flat panel I have from 2002 - cost 1000$) and lose 180 vertical pixels!

Actually you lose 120 pixels per row. That leads to a total loss of 192000 pixels over 1600 rows. Horizontally you're gaining 345600 pixels so it's a net gain of 153600 pixels.

Or you can just stop whining and buy a 16:10 monitor like the Samsung 2443BW with a 1920x1200 resolution, for fecks sake you can get them in Australia for A$300 so they should be cheaper on the other side of the Indian-Pacific Price Dilation field, 16:10's are decreasing in price, just not as fast as 16:9's. I switched to a 16:10 LCD (1680x1050) years ago and haven't looked back, I wont be going to 16:9 any time soon either.

Plus give it a few years, 16:9 is pretty much at a dead end with 1920x1080 as there's no demand for a higher 16:9 resolution, in 5 years, we'll see affordable WQXGA (2560×1600) monitors appearing.

Oh geez i dunno.. maybe alot of places?

If you live anywhere else in Australia, hit staticICE and search for the lowest price. I just wish they had an option for like eBay's "Sort by lowest price + shipping".

Not here (Australia) they don't. For some reason the alternatives are all ridiculously much more expensive.

Creative X-Fi Audio: $85
M-Audio Revolution 5.1: $180, and only available in a handful of shops nation-wide (and only in one state at that).
ASUS XONAR D2X: $200, but much more widely available than the m-audio.
Razer Barracuda AC-1: $195.
(Prices from http://staticice.com.au/ )

Add to that the fact that most people think spending $80 on a sound card is a lot (and well, that's what my Revolution 5.1 cost me when I got a friend of mine to buy one in the US) and that Creative is the only brand that people recognize for sound cards... it's pretty easy to see why they have the market cornered.

For cheap prices, check out http://www.staticice.com.au/ It's great if you know exactly what you're looking for

Staticice.com.au finds it for $A855.

Adding the GST of 10%, I'd expect an Australian price of (574*1.1)/.762 = $A829. A markup of about 3%. And does the newegg price include sales tax?

Then again, newegg is expensive: bizrate found it for $US530 - au markup of about 12%.

http://www.bizrate.com/buy/products__cat_id--46010 3,keyword--xfx%20geforce%207800,sort--5.html

The real rip-offs in terms of markup can be found on things like the powerbook.