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  • #16
    nostromo, thank you . You know where I operate... coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male.... across the north and south to key largo, love for sale...

    I kicked Smooth Operators ass in a streetfightladdersuperdeatmatch and killed him with a single blow, so I gained the right to be the smooth operator.
    In da butt.
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    • #17
      When you come into the country make sure they don't VAT your computer.
      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Tuberski
        Local hardware stores probably do not have them. I've never seen one and I've been in a lot of hardware stores.
        Well, I've seen them in numerous hardware stores over here.

        My hardware store is better than yours
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Oncle Boris
          Yeah, so it's decision, decision... do I buy a laptop here or there? (I don't have it yet...)
          Get it here, if you'll eventually bring it back here. Else you'll have a bunch of funny European versions of software on it

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          • #20
            As far as I've heard computers are far cheaper in America than in Europe. This will easily make up for the adapter (unfortunately not for the travel).

            Btw. the worst thing with French keyboards is not AZERTY but the fact that the top row offers all sorts of funky accents and the numbers all are entered with SHIFT. No wonder, the French are the best users of the numeric pad.
            The German QWERTZ is far easier to learn ... And it offers all the umlauts which are pain to enter with a US keyboard.
            Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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            • #21
              I kicked Smooth Operators ass in a streetfightladdersuperdeatmatch and killed him with a single blow, so I gained the right to be the smooth operator.
              And you also earned the right to say, like Rick James: I'm Pekka, biatch!
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              • #22
                Prices vary in Europe. Pretty good prices in here for example. But I'd still suggest you buy it from where you live now. That way you'll have a laptop for sure when you arrive and you don't have to worry about it.. worry about getting a good deal and all that time not having a laptop.. just get it there man, it'll be a lot easier.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Adalbertus
                  Btw. the worst thing with French keyboards is not AZERTY but the fact that the top row offers all sorts of funky accents and the numbers all are entered with SHIFT.
                  Worst with French AZERTY is: there is no | (pipe)
                  Quite annoying for a unix/linux user.

                  QWERTY keyboards are available in all countries. But you need to ask, because the default is the local one.
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                  • #24
                    how can you use a computer without a pipe?!

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                    • #25
                      As a very rough rule of thumb, PC prices in the US are the same as in Europe, with 2 major caveats (I don't know about laptops, or Canada, but I assume the same is true).

                      1) The prices do not take into account the exchange rate. The equilalent of a €800 European system will cost $800 in the US, but of course €1 != $1. So for this reason alone buying a PC in the US is 30% cheaper ATM (as a rule of thumb).

                      2) The prices in the US are including monitor, the ones in Europe excluding.

                      So buying a laptop in Canada is probably a lot cheaper than buying one in Europe.
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                      • #26
                        Not necessarily.

                        I'm the only expert in this thread right now.
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Dry


                          Worst with French AZERTY is: there is no | (pipe)
                          Quite annoying for a unix/linux user.

                          QWERTY keyboards are available in all countries. But you need to ask, because the default is the local one.
                          Yeah, but it might be a real pain to get a QWERTY laptop in France... especially a French modified one (afaik those are only made for the French Canadian market).
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Locutus
                            As a very rough rule of thumb, PC prices in the US are the same as in Europe, with 2 major caveats (I don't know about laptops, or Canada, but I assume the same is true).

                            1) The prices do not take into account the exchange rate. The equilalent of a €800 European system will cost $800 in the US, but of course €1 != $1. So for this reason alone buying a PC in the US is 30% cheaper ATM (as a rule of thumb).
                            In other words it's much more expensive.

                            A quick look on the Apple store shows that laptops in Europe cost the same as those in the US, but in euros... ouch.

                            In Canada prices are not "flat", they usually evolve along with the exchange rate. Right now the iBook's price in Canadian dollars is 25% more than the American one, which corresponds to the exchange rate.
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                            • #29
                              Which makes quite a lot of sense

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by nostromo
                                Yep. desktop's are not "bivoltés" (pardon my french, but Oncle Boris understands) like laptops's, so you have to convert it. If you have a laptop, better leave your desktop at home.
                                Depends. Most new power supplies have a switch in the back for 110V and 220V. So OB should check that first.
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