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Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar
An anonymous reader submits "I am heading to the U.S. pretty soon and am keen to take advantage of the low US$ to buy a laptop. The differences in prices are astounding - on dell.com (US) you pay $2049 for a Precision M60 - in the UK this costs 1620.33UKP, or $2999. That is a fair difference! It makes it cheaper for me to fly to the US to buy it and carry it home than it is for me to buy it in the UK. Now, that said, it isn't particularly easy to find a place to buy a laptop from, since most of the places don't ship to the UK (or it takes weeks) and it is difficult to get stuff delivered to your hotel ... any suggestions of how I can get a good laptop in the New York area when I am only there for 4 days?"
Trying going here!
If you buy their extended warrenty, you get worldwide coverage for three years. Not a bad deal! :)
A Mac-fanatic Democrat, in case you couldn't tell...
You're proud of your labels, aren't you?
Thanks for sharing, anyway.
(A human being, in case you couldn't tell...)
Winton? Are you the Winton Davies who works for ASNA in the UK?
Try Michael's Computers, Tom's Hardware just did a review of them. He has the BEST laptops on earth, at least in theory...
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I resent that.
I was in NYC abotu a year and a half ago, and I looked EVERYwhere for a rOllox, or a Rolecks, not even a Molex watch, and I found NONE!
Oh, I found lots of Timax and Kasios. But no fake-Rolexi.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Oh my god, there are two of us, and I thought I was unique? Nope I'm in the US now, fairly permamently.
Winton
Timothy, why in the hell would this lame ass story get posted to slashdot??? /. instead of this.
What kind of a newbie question is 'where can I buy a laptop'... If you can't google for that, why bother signing on to slashdot? Please maybe filter what you actually post a little bit, it would be nice to have relevent topics on
kisses karma goodbye
No I didnt spell check this post...
wow you seem to know the bible but at the same time are completely clueless as to the difference between christianity and judiasm... maybe if you actually read the bible trying to get understanding instead of flame ammo you would already know the answers to your questions... but im sure you care less about that and more about feeling good bashing people who have different beliefs than you. so in that regard job well done!
I got an 8600 for Christmas. It took about 1 day to assemble and 2 days to ship. That was in about the first week of Christmas, when I bet their workforce swells for the holidays. I really like my 8600, it's my first computer since my 8086 that I've bought pre-assembled, but then again, it's not easy to assemble a laptop.
OH come on, even if the plane ticket to the US alone cost $4000, and the laptop, after all taxes are paid costs $2989 (ie saves $10) he is still ahead by come to the US to buy it. At least if he does anything other than grad the laptop and leave. The US is a large country with a lot of culture (despite how Europe jokes otherwise), and many wonderful things to see and do. Everyone should visit. Actually the US is large enough that one visit won't be enough to see it all, but then you cannot see the entire world in your lifetime.
Enjoy the trip. New York isn't my favorite place to visit in the US, but it is worth seeing.
Last November a friend had me bring him a fully loaded 17" Powerbook from the States to Hungary.
...and found that, in dollars at least, the local price for the same config was more than double what he paid (>US$6K vs US$3K).
After about a month he didn't like it anymore - he discovered that it's a giant heat sink, that the monitor hinge is a case study in bad industrial design, that the trackpad is badly positioned... in short, that the sucker is not a laptop at all but rather a "desktop replacement" meant for people who need a big pretty computer they can move easily from desk to desk. (Yes, I did warn him about all this ahead of time).
After he talked to Apple and got an agreement that he would get his money back minus shipping, we checked out local prices...
Being a nice guy, he found someone in under three days to buy it at his cost.
So my advice is to get a top-of-the-line powerbook, resell it back home for a decent profit but well below market, and use the extra cash to take either buy your real laptop at home or to take a fun-filled short trip to NYC,USA and buy what you want there.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
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