Re: iBook prices

[Joss Winn <joss@example.com>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:14:37PM +0900, tlug-digest-request@example.com wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:14:18 +0100
> To: tlug@example.com
> From: Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>
> Subject: iBook prices
> 
> Hi. I've got a friend who's looking to buy a fairly low-spec iBook;
> they're about to move to the UK, and wondered whether it would be
> cheaper to buy in Japan or in the UK. The cheapest I can find here -
> academic discount - is 870 pounds (14.7 Man) for 500MHz, 64M RAM, 10GB
> disk, modem, CDROM and ethernet. That's basically around the sort of
> thing they want. Do any of the Akihabara gurus know of any better prices?
> 
> -- 
> A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something
> undreamed of by its author.
>                 -- S. C. Johnson


one thing worth considering when buying a laptop here and then
moving abroad is whether your friend will eventually want to sell
the iBook in the UK.  If so, I would buy it in the UK, because
trying to get rid of a laptop with Japanese keyboard in the UK will
be difficult.

Just a thought...

Joss
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