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Old 01-10-2014, 02:40 PM   #486
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
True, but we tend to set value by comparing costs to other similar things.
Even the Apple Macbook Air 13" is only $100 more than the 11", and that's in Apple dollars, which is currently less than $25 in normal money.*

ApK

*Exchange rate based on the price difference of a 32GB and 64GB iPod Touch compared to the price for a 32GB micro sd card.... ;-)
The basic problem with this approach is that with Apple you are comparing in-brand and in a single line where presumably they are striving to maintain a similar level of quality; with the Chromebooks you are comparing across companies which might make different choices of OMD, component quality, etc.

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