Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 10:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:22, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > Maybe I was being a little too wide with my price differences?  I was
> > using the knowledge I have that laptop/notebook PCs and larger
> > desktops etc are indeed quite a lot cheaper in the US than they are
> > here in the UK.  I had assumed (I know, it doesn't do to assume
> > anything) that there would be a similar price difference for the same
> > equipment with tv sets.
>
> Looking at Dell's prices, in the UK the Dell M20 sells for 1020 pounds.
> Excluding VAT that's 868 including shipping.
>
> In Sweden the M20 sells for 1152 British pounds (by today's exchange rate).
> Excluding VAT, that's 921. The difference of 53 pounds could be partly
> cheaper freight in the UK, and partly differences in the exchange rates on
> the day.
>
> In the US, the M20 sells for $1373, which by today's exchange rate is 781
> pounds. They don't mention if that includes sales tax (I doubt it) or
> shipping (says 'with select desktops'), but it's still quite a difference
> compared to the European prices. I don't know what makes up for this
> difference, but it's all the same model, so different standards can
> reasonably not have anything to do with it.


	Did you check if the boxes are fitted out equally? Easy enough to fit one 
with less/more memory. Bigger HD. 

	
	Nick