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50% price cuts for AMD X2's
The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 |
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bbbl67 wrote:
The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 A new PC for me in August. 8) |
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chrisv wrote:
bbbl67 wrote: The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 A new PC for me in August. 8) I was thinking exactly the same thing. |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
chrisv wrote: bbbl67 wrote: The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 A new PC for me in August. 8) I was thinking exactly the same thing. And anther thing going for those of us in Canada is that we have a sales tax (which we call the GST) cut coming online just about that time of year too. It's going to be an extra special time to buy computers for us. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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"chrisv" wrote in message
... bbbl67 wrote: The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 A new PC for me in August. 8) Too bad for me my computer needs exactly the thing not affected by the price war... Memory... Specifically DDR400 (Got 1.5GB in signle channel, I want a full 2GB for development and vista beta and DC of course). In fact, DDRI prices are more likely to increase with AM2. ::sigh:: Carlo |
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:50:57 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: chrisv wrote: bbbl67 wrote: The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture. "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core" http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657 A new PC for me in August. 8) I was thinking exactly the same thing. And anther thing going for those of us in Canada is that we have a sales tax (which we call the GST) cut coming online just about that time of year too. It's going to be an extra special time to buy computers for us. Yousuf Khan Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is paid to the state and local governments and not the national government. The rules for what's taxable vary by state as well. For example, in some states, food items aren't taxable. I worked in retail automation for many years and calculating sales tax is a nightmare. There are options for counties and cities to collect sales tax as well, and they can use different calculations and different (often weird) rounding for each of those. It's a mess to calculate and some states allow the tax to be based on where you live in the state (provided it's the same state), not where the store is located. Mostly that's ignored unless you get a big ticket item and live in a place within the state that has a much lower tax rate. And this is just if you physically go to the store. If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state, even though the location in your state never had anything to do with the order. In the case where they aren't charged sales tax for something mail/phone/internet ordered from another state, the consumer is technically supposed to fill out a form and pay sales tax on it directly to their own state, which rarely happens in reality. Of course, if you physically visit a store in another state to order or pickup the item, then you pay the other states tax for that store location. Sales tax is a mess here in the US. -- David |
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David Ball wrote:
Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is paid to the state and local governments and not the national government. No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's election promise. If they make it through another year, then they promised another 1% tax cut next year too. If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state, even though the location in your state never had anything to do with the order. In the case where they aren't charged sales tax for something mail/phone/internet ordered from another state, the consumer is technically supposed to fill out a form and pay sales tax on it directly to their own state, which rarely happens in reality. Of course, if you physically visit a store in another state to order or pickup the item, then you pay the other states tax for that store location. Sales tax is a mess here in the US. Oh yeah, that too, but there's another tax loophole that can be exploited: buy a computer on an Indian reservation. All sales taxes are exempt. However, I noticed that these stores just jack up the price of their stuff an equal amount to make better margins in place of paying the government. Yousuf Khan |
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:49:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
David Ball wrote: Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is paid to the state and local governments and not the national government. No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's election promise. If they make it through another year, then they promised another 1% tax cut next year too. Do they still call it "sales tax" in Canada? If not it sounds suspiciously like your govt. is girding itself up to go VAT eventually. I know we have Federal Congressmen who start drooling at the mouth whenever the subject VAT comes up... dreams of "barrels of pork".:-) While VAT seems simple and fair at a glance, it is in fact one of the biggest of iniquities ever conjured up by govt. If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state, even though the location in your state never had anything to do with the order. I dunno about other states but the way it works in NJ, the vendor only has to have done business one time to get caught for sales tax; e.g., Gateway had never had a presence in NJ but following an exhibit at a conference, all subsequent sales of Gateway products to NJ customers were subject to sales tax. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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50% price cuts for AMD X2's
In article , fammacd=!
says... On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:49:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote: David Ball wrote: Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is paid to the state and local governments and not the national government. No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's election promise. If they make it through another year, then they promised another 1% tax cut next year too. Do they still call it "sales tax" in Canada? If not it sounds suspiciously like your govt. is girding itself up to go VAT eventually. I know we have Federal Congressmen who start drooling at the mouth whenever the subject VAT comes up... dreams of "barrels of pork".:-) While VAT seems simple and fair at a glance, it is in fact one of the biggest of iniquities ever conjured up by govt. How so? The People's Republic of Vermont wanted to put in a "gross receipts tax" to replace the property tax. Talk about inequitable! If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state, even though the location in your state never had anything to do with the order. I dunno about other states but the way it works in NJ, the vendor only has to have done business one time to get caught for sales tax; e.g., Gateway had never had a presence in NJ but following an exhibit at a conference, all subsequent sales of Gateway products to NJ customers were subject to sales tax. No worry about that here. No business would ever come here on purpose. -- Keith |
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