there aren't many g5 for sale and for this price in portugal, in fact i can't find g5's in a store anymore
Exactly, just three days ago I bought a very nice-looking G5 Quad for 3850CZK (equivalent of ~ 150) in an auction on aukro.cz. I'm kepping it for sure... Duals go usually for about 100 or less, rarely slightly above 100...
Greetings,
It's amazing how much shipping costs, especially it's amazing within the EU (considering that distances are not that great, and 50+ years of economic integration should have demolished the cross-border -shipment effect by now).
Still, the prices on basically identical items vary widely (Finland is somewhere in between Portugal and the Czech republic, sadly closer to Portugal)
According to "economic theory", the cost of any item in one country should not be higher than that of the identical item in any other country + shipping + inconvenience value. Either that inconvenience value is higher than economic theory predicts, or economic theory is incomplete.
Laptops, now that is a different story, as I would have very little use of a MacBook with a czech keyboard:
"Finnish is a euphonious language, in other words, it pleases the ear. This is by virtue of its abundance of vowels, which eliminates ugly, consonantal conglomerations. It was recently proposed to export a few vowels to Czechoslovakia, where they are getting rather short of them, and import a few Czech consonants in their place, but negotiations broke down at an early stage. The Finns decided they wanted nothing to do with a language which called ice cream "zmrzlina" while the Czechs were equally distrustful of a language which called it "jäätelö"." (outdated original text;
source )
RGDS,
