Cowabungaa said:
tkioz said:
Oh, woopsies, read that wrong. Lets see, 50 euros maaaakes... $70. Still pretty expensive, I had stress-tests too for that price. No software installations though. I mean, 50 extra euros to install Windows 7? Gimme a break...
It's not just raw currency conversion, it's buying power, the EURO, USD, GBP, all have better buying power then the AUD.
A number of years ago, more then I'd care to remember, I build computers at a local computer store before moving on, at that store it was $50 for a computer assembly, $50 for a OS install.
I got mine done at a respected online retailer, and chose extras that I prefered, the reason the OS cost more to install as I wanted it was they had to do it manually rather then use the WinPE like normally, I didn't want that crap that comes with newly installed machines, I wanted Windows and updates, that's it.
Frankly I was being lazy and throwing money at the problem, too many years of fixing and building computers for a live to enjoy it anymore, before I started in the industry I loved tinkering and building my own machines, now I can't stand it.