- Puddin
- Apr 9, 2004
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Leave it to Brak
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Even with the big discounts on Australian Thinkpads at the moment ($200 off x230, $800 off x1 Carbon!) it is still cheaper to buy a brand new macbook air than to get a thinkpad with equivalent stats.
Everything costs more here, and it sucks.
I think that I'm leaning towards the macbook air, despite the giant cost. A thinkpad would let me upgrade bits, but to do so still requires me to buy the bits. At least macbooks seem to retain part of their value when selling secondhand, and there's an offical apple store at uni I could take it to if anything goes wrong.
The interest free thing requires me to sign up for something called a GE Creditline, which has 0% interest for 12 months, and then 22.9% interest after that. So if I pay $200 a month I'll be done well before the interest kicks in.
Just so you know, as bad as Harvey Norman is, they have 18month version of the finance thing until 30th June.
I know this as I'm about to buy a Macbook Air too on it. Had a GE card for years, never paid a cent in interest. Just make more than the min payments and you'll be fine.
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