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Apple Ships 17-inch PowerBook
spathi writes "After a long wait, Apple has finally started shipping the 17" PowerBook. This thread over on the MacNN Forums shows a few people have received their tracking numbers. It seems Apple hit it's deadline of 7-10 weeks after all"
The discussion thread can be found at
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http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?&threadid=
Can be found in this developer note.
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing. -- Thomas Jefferson
select membership is 500/year and on the second year renewal you get 1 hardware discount. Each renewal after that you get the 1 hardware discount. They expire and last no longer than the select membership.
The spendy devel program costs thousands but you get a handful of discounts (10 maybe???) Sometimes they are tranferable to other developers... If you find someone that isn't going to use their discounts I think they can transfer them..
Spending 500 for a hardware discount isn't usually worth it.
I saw this earlier.
So it's still the 7455
OMG BIG PENIS ATE MY SOUP
If you are a student though, you can register for $100.
Then you can get all the cool discounts, which compared to the regular student discount is more savings then the cost of the membership.
Also you get all the other cool stuff.
Here is a link.
ACD Hardware Purchase Program
Click on ACD purchase program to get into the store.
You might have to have a login password for it work though, which you can get for free (after registration).
Biggest draw back that I have seen is that the student developer can only do this once in a lifetime, but the full developer can do this once a year. Furthermore, the regular student can only buy once a year at the reduced rate.
Here are some developer prices if you can't get to these pages:
12.1 PowerBook - $1439 (or $1699 student, or $1799 everyone)
Dual 1.42 - $2159 (or $2459 student, or $2699 everyone)
jsmith38
You did forget that your price in Austria is incl. VAT.
:-)
In the US all retail prices are without VAT. That's extra (quite annoying, I reckon)
As your "Mehrwertsteuersatz" is 20% you should see where the difference come from.
Apple has actually lowered their prices off late quite a bit.
Still it could be cheaper
Why not fly over and buy one? (I did that...)
They're assembled in Asia, but priced in US dollars. The price in other currencies is set when a given model is announced, and does not fluctuate with the currency. So if something is priced at, say, 1,000 euros, and the euro goes up in value, the price doesn't change until the item is revised. At least, that's my understanding, given what I've seen (Canadian vs. US prices -- iPods at the US$399 price point have risen from C$599 to C$629 since their introduction) and my vague recollection of a quarterly results conference call or something like that.
I should add that it's quite common to have European complaints about the price difference here on Slashdot; in most cases, they fail to take VAT into account. When VAT is 17% or more, it does make a difference, and VAT is usually included in the price, if I'm not mistaken. Whereas in North America, sales taxes -- if any -- are added after the fact.