On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Lars <nore...@z505.com> wrote: > Anon wrote: >> Obviously you don't live in a 3rd world country. I do and nothing is 50 >> bucks here except the women. Nobody throws anything out except dead cats >> and PCs cost about 350 USD for a new build based on 3-5 year old NOS parts >> the Americans dumped on the market after they went obsolete. >> >> > > > Well you can get computers in Canada for under 50 dollars, so it would > require shipping them. B If you do it in massive bulk (palettes or > containers) it only adds about 5-10 dollars extra shipping cost to each > computer. B And if you do it in massive bulk, it means the computer is no > longer 50 dollars but a bulk discount is applied so only about $40 > dollars. > > I have shipped containers across the ocean to other countries before with > hundreds of computers across Atlantic ocean. If you do not order them in > bulk then it costs too much to ship them (more to ship them than the price > of the computer itself!). It's all about bulk and quantity. > > So the third world country would have to gather all their funds together, > and do a bulk purchase, rather than each person purchasing individually.
i have to agree with troll here some countries have "control de cambio" which means that it's ilegal to buy dollars/selected foreign currency past a certain extent on a periodic basis really, don't speculate about other places unless you know for sure > > The advantage of the raspberry pi is that you might be able to shove it > inside a bubble padded envelope, whereas desktop computers need to be > packed up on palettes and containers. > > Still, you need to buy LCD monitors or CRT, so the lightweight raspberry > pi is a moot point, since LCD's and CRT's are heavy. Unless you already > have LCD/CRT monitors and just need the PC part.
