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More Apple Store prices compared

Settembre 9, 2010
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 |  Apple, Hardware

I recently posted about a price comparison between European Apple Stores, and showing – or at least trying to show – how much Apple is gaining by selling overseas.

I will make use of the same fee percentage estimation computed in that very article. Based on this assumption, I tried to discover how much is the gain for three Apple main products: the new Apple TV, the new Mac Mini and the MacBook.

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Sell the Belkin and buy a D-Link or Airport!

Agosto 5, 2010
 |  2 commenti
 |  Hardware

At the beginning of this year I bought a fabulous new LAN router from Belking, the Belkin N Wireless Router F5D8236-4. It’s a modem-less router that I use linked to my ISP’s router (I am connected through Fastweb).

With its double band (one for B/G WiFi connections, the other for N WiFi connections) it has always served very well for my home devices: an iPod Touch, an iPhone 3G, a Dell XPS 630i, an iMac and a PS3. By the month of April I bought this fantastic brand new MacBook Pro 15″, and after a short period I sold the XPS.

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