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From: Jeff Male <jjm@one.net.au>
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I'm glad someone noticed.  Yes that does mean Australia.  We have 22% slaped on all
hardware plus inport taxes plus our dollar isn't at strong at the US.

Ed Benson wrote:

> Um, did y'all notice he said, "in Aus..."? Now I could be wrong, but I'm
> guessing that means Australia, where the prices might just be a little different
> then they are here.
>
> Ed Benson
>
> Sports51@concentric.net wrote:
>
> > You guys must be kidding right?  The price of a PII400 is over  1,600???
> > Yeah right!  This must be by itself right?  I just saw a computer:
> > PII400
> > 64 ram
> > 32x CD
> > blah, blah,blah(You know the rest nowadays)
> >
> > For 1,600.  Now for a single Pentium to be that much is outrageous!
> >
> > Chatham wrote in message ...
> > >In article <dbAS1.317$14.531526@news3.ispnews.com>,
> > >tdeatherage@cyberstation.net says...
> > >> The "Strategy Guide" for GPL talks about the "third kind of Intel
> > >> Pentium"...that being the Celeron,
> > >> a computer for computer literate guys who can soup it up. is this correct
> > ?
> > >> Can you buy Celerons anywhere? Are they that economical? Do the big guys
> > >>  e.g. Dell, Gateway, etc. ) make them ?
> > >>
> > >> Ok gurus educate me!
> > >>
> > >> THANKS !
> > >>
> > >> Tim A. Deatherage
> > >> tdeatherage@cst.net
> > >> "Admitted Sim Addict"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >Go to the CeleRon Buyers guide for some good info
> > >http://www.upgradecenter.net/FAQs/celeronfaq.shtml



