Basically the price difference reflects the size of the company selling the items. I really can't imagine Klikk selling the same amount of PCs as PC World. Look at Lidl; buying a cheap radio at 10 Euros which includes a three year guarantee! Nobody in Malta can match that.
Charles On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a browse around Klikk Computer Store in Birkikara yesterday and was > pleased to see that they have several Linux netbooks. For one of the > netbooks > (an Acer Aspire One) they had two versions - a Windows version and a Linux > version - with the Windows version being Eur 45 more expensive. This may > not > seem like much, but it's a big improvement on the shop in France that I had > a > look round recently where the Windows netbooks were better value than the > (very > few) Linux ones, and the situation in Malta a year or so ago when it was > cheaper > to buy a laptop with Windows pre-installed than a laptop with Linux or even > with > no operating system. > > Unfortunately, the Malta prices are still a rip-off. In the UK, PC World > (hardly > the most competitively-priced computer shop) sells the exact same netbook > for > the equivalent of Eur 257, compared to Eur 379 in Klikk :-(. What possible > excuse do they have for charging 47% more in Malta? It would be cheaper to > fly > to the UK on Ryanair and buy it there. > > Fortunately, I'm not looking to buy one anyway - I already have an (oldish) > Asus > eeePC, onto which I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix which > works > really well. > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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