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Anyway, bottom line is that in the US and Canada the prices are generally negligible for system that are "sort" of similar.


I'm intrigued by why Dell are so much cheaper than Apple in the UK. I can't work out why Apple should be so relatively expensive over here. Dell seem to be pretty much matching the $:£ exchange rate, Apple are some way short of that.

I know Apple have a lot more non-manufacturing, non-sales-service-support people in Europe than Apple. They have a lot of people running around supporting third part developers and the like (I know because I went to see them when they lent me that monster dual G5).

But I'm not sure that explains why they should be that much more expensive.

Dell do "manufacturing" (ok, assembly) in Europe, don't think Apple do. Maybe that has something to do with it.
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