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slycatNokia 3510 - £20 (In Spetember from upgrade) - Because my phone is too quiet and the vibrate isn't powerful enough. Also it's nice to have a new phone to play around with the new features until they get boring after a few days. (Plus this phone has DDR!)
Fuji FinePix 2800 - £270(ish) - To replace my now defunct camera (Which is just over 2 years old now). I realised it's true limitations at AC when I couldn't zoom into the stage. This particular camera is the cheapest with a 6x optical zoom and has enough other features to keep me happy.
GeForce 4 of some kind - £200(ish) - Not sure which of these to go for but I really need to replace my Taiwanese, unbranded, cheap, clone of an ATI Radeon 8500. It has all the features but does them all badly and it crashes my PC on a regular basis.
Blee! It's hard to save money when things like these are around to tempt you... At least I'm getting £180 for my DV camcorder tomorrow. Had to let it go for much less than I wanted to cos you can get it brand new for around £300 now... :-/ Oh well, is the price of new technology...
Fuji FinePix 2800 - £270(ish) - To replace my now defunct camera (Which is just over 2 years old now). I realised it's true limitations at AC when I couldn't zoom into the stage. This particular camera is the cheapest with a 6x optical zoom and has enough other features to keep me happy.
GeForce 4 of some kind - £200(ish) - Not sure which of these to go for but I really need to replace my Taiwanese, unbranded, cheap, clone of an ATI Radeon 8500. It has all the features but does them all badly and it crashes my PC on a regular basis.
Blee! It's hard to save money when things like these are around to tempt you... At least I'm getting £180 for my DV camcorder tomorrow. Had to let it go for much less than I wanted to cos you can get it brand new for around £300 now... :-/ Oh well, is the price of new technology...
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Date: 2002-07-29 04:32 pm (UTC)I dunno what to think when I hear foreign complaints about prices. :)
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Date: 2002-07-29 10:06 pm (UTC)Do a conversion at www.xe.com/ucc
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Date: 2002-07-29 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-29 10:24 pm (UTC)Typically, when something costs us say £100, it'll cost you $100. as you can get $1.6 into £1, everything from the states is much cheaper to us brits. Also this means that if you visit here, everything is stupidly expensive!
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Date: 2002-07-29 10:41 pm (UTC)Nokia 3510
£20.00 UK = $31.2694 US
Hmm... I dunno.. $31 doesn't seem too bad for a cell phone. I think the 3510 must be a UK-only model since I can't find any going US prices. In fact, it appears to be a phone that you NORMALLY would get for free when you sign up for service. Was kinda hard to get a price at all. http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=3510 seems to have it for £145.15 without a new service.
Fuji FinePix 2800
£270.00 UK = $422.157 US
http://digitalcamera.bizrate.com/marketplace/search/search__prod_id--6287855,cat_id--402,title--Fuji%20Finepix%202800.html has a price comparison chart. DAMN! You paid a lot for that camera, after converting it to US dollars and comparing prices! 0.o
GeForce 4 of some kind
£200 UK = $312.699 US
YIPES!
http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m37.htm
$282 GeForce4 TI 4600
$134 GeForce4 TI 4200
$118 - GeForce4 MX 460
$69 - GeForce4 MX 440
$60 - GeForce4 MX 420
(I took out the GeForce 4 sterescopic LCD shutter glasses from the list and left only the actual video cards)
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Wish I could say I wish this was useful.. but I was just trying to get a feel for what you said.. then got kinda involved in it and went full into it by looking up prices in US dollars versus the UK pound. :P Sorry, but if I'm going to do this much work--you're going to have to SEE it, buddy!! >:)
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Date: 2002-07-30 12:20 pm (UTC)You have to think of the prices this way, I get paid in pounds what you would get paid in dollars (Without conversion). So say I earnt £20000 and you earnt $20000, while the camera is £270 here yet $270 there, it all works out nicely and so when in isolation, neither of us think we are being ripped off or are having a bargin. However, if I were to buy stuff from America, I'm saving around a third but then I have postage to add on... :D
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Date: 2002-07-30 04:19 am (UTC)oh aye... ;)
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Date: 2002-07-30 12:15 pm (UTC)Um, i meant that it's not powerful enough to feel it when it's ringing :P I'm always missing calls.
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Date: 2002-07-30 08:01 am (UTC)THERE!
::Runs away into her screen house::
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Date: 2002-07-30 12:17 pm (UTC)Need more of these if I want to feel cool though... Still barmy hot here (Not quite as much today but still humid) and no AC like you guys...