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Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar

Posted by timothy on from the used-to-be-volvos-in-sweden-this-way dept.

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?"

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  1. Try here by czelous · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/

  2. hehehe... by Artana+Niveus+Corvum · · Score: 0, Troll

    well, first you go to the apple store...

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  3. Re:Toshiba by simonfairfax · · Score: 0, Troll

    My current laptop has a 17' lcd... 17 Foot LCD monitor? Wow!

  4. Re:shopping for a laptop by frovingslosh · · Score: 1, Troll
    By the way, remember that most U.S. sold products are sold with a U.S. mindset that often screws the international customer as well as the U.S. customer who travels. A notebook will very likely come with a power supply that has only an American tupe plug and requires only 110 volts at 60 cycles/second. You likely will have to buy an extra adapter if you get such a notebook. Beware of many of these sold here, as many will not have the power wattage requirement, as well as having the other problems. Also, if you plan on using video out from your notebook, understand that almost any notebook you get here will only offer NTSC video, not PAL, even if the same model offers PAL in Europe.

    The same caution goes to any other product you might buy. Yes, you can get a $29.99 DVD player here. But it will require 110 Volt 60 cycles, have an American plug, will only play region 1 DVDs with no way to change it, and likely will only output in NTSC (although a few will let you switch to PAL, but unless you bring a TV you'll have no way to test that in this country).

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