about 10 years ago my cross-computations among local pricelists and pcworld(us) prices, and these last years comparisons Pantip (bangkok) and Sun City (singpr) makes it look like everything is dollar-based and prices don't significantly vary. kahit na 5km lang layo namin sa Laguna Technopark kung san ginagawa ibang mga mb,vc,ibmhd,etc ganun parin presyo. anyway that's from what i see.
sometimes for the same product there is US version which might differ in options, features, and price from asian version. Orlando Andico said: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Michael Chaney wrote: > .. >> Not to taunt you with our lower prices in the US, but I bought an Asus >> A7V over a year ago for about $150. It includes firewire, Gig-E, USB 1 >> & 2 (the fast "2"), 6-channel audio, SATA, Promise IDE RAID controller >> for the first IDE controller, etc. I believe at the time I paid around >> $150 for the CPU, too (1.45GHz Athlon). Anyway, the A7V series is a >> sweet >> desktop board. >> >> Anyone know why the prices are so high in the Philippines? > > the prices here aren't high. > Almost a year ago my brother bought a 1.6GHz Athlon, it cost about $120 > or so. > > Current price for a 1.83GHz Athlon is about $110. > > I didn't realize the A7V has been upgraded. it's on of the earliest KT133A > motherboards. If you're talking about the ASUS A7N8X (dual LAN, SATA, > Firewire, USB2.0) that's about $150. > > the reason the ASUS PC-DL i mentioned costs 20k pesos (~ $400) is because > it's a *DUAL XEON* board. > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
