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Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60)

From parv <parv000@yahooWhereElse.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad
Subject Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60)
Date 2013-01-04 06:29 +0000
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in message <kbsqhf$ont$1@dont-email.me>,
wrote Adam ...

> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> On 2012-12-27, Adam <adam@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Computers of all kinds are a lot cheaper in the USA than they
>>>> are in Britain. I think I paid about 1100 pounds for the Z61M 5
>>>> years ago.
> [...]
>> My son currently lives and works in the USA. He finds that, as a
>> rule, you can substitute pounds for dollars in the price of
>> computers; i.e. a computer costing about 700 dollars in the USA
>> would cost about 700 pounds here.
>
> Wow, that IS quite a difference!  According to
> http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ today's exchange rate is
> USD $1
>= UK £ 1.61533 (is that showing up as a "pound sterling" symbol on
>your computer?).

Yes, indeed.


> Are there any other products or services where
> there's such a disparity either way?

System camera, lenses, flashes is one kind of example -- that is
what other people tell about of prices in Europe compared to in USA
or Canada. Prices reported to be worse in Australia & New Zealand.


  - parv

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New to laptops Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-17 17:20 -0500
  Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) parv <parv000@yahooWhereElse.com> - 2012-12-18 10:50 +0000
    Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Christoph Schmees <cjws@nurfuerspam.de> - 2012-12-18 19:31 +0100
      Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-18 19:24 -0500
        Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Christoph Schmees <cjws@nurfuerspam.de> - 2012-12-19 11:36 +0100
          Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-20 16:43 -0500
        Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> - 2012-12-23 10:28 +0000
          Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-25 22:30 -0500
            Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> - 2012-12-26 09:51 +0000
              Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-26 21:52 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> - 2012-12-28 11:38 +0000
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-31 14:54 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) parv <parv000@yahooWhereElse.com> - 2013-01-04 06:29 +0000
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-01-04 17:22 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-01-12 13:15 +1300
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-01-14 19:46 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 10:56 +1300
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-01-28 19:42 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-01-29 16:00 +1300
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-01-29 21:21 -0500
                Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-01-31 22:38 +1300
                Re: OT: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-02-04 00:22 -0500
                Re: OT: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 14:56 +1300
                Re: OT: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2013-02-10 00:57 -0500
    Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-18 19:24 -0500
      Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "Tom Rutherford" <tom@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-19 20:28 -0500
        Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-20 16:43 -0500
          Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) News <News@Groups.Post> - 2012-12-20 17:00 -0500
            Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-20 17:19 -0500
              Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) News <News@Groups.Post> - 2012-12-20 17:24 -0500
        Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Ardent <iam@here.com.invalid> - 2012-12-23 08:16 +0530
          Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) "Tom Rutherford" <tom@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-23 15:20 -0500
      Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) parv <parv000@yahooWhereElse.com> - 2012-12-20 07:35 +0000
        Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <adam@address.invalid> - 2012-12-20 16:43 -0500
          Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com> - 2013-01-04 15:18 +0000
            Re: New to laptops (Thinkpad T60) Adam <newsgroup@invalid.invalid> - 2013-01-04 17:22 -0500

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