Comment Re:Just like when IBM sold off their consumer line (Score 1) 514
My company's HP ProBooks were manufactured by Wistron (spin off of Acer), exactly like all ThinkPads used here.
Comment Re:Numbers numbers numbers (Score 1) 318
Actually GDP per capita, current prices (2004):
India: $608.4
USA: $39934.3
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2005/01/da ta/dbginim.cfm
Of course Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita is very close to the numbers you provided.
But the laptop costs about 230 real dollars, not 230 purchasing-power-parity dollars.
India: $608.4
USA: $39934.3
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2005/01/d
Of course Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita is very close to the numbers you provided.
But the laptop costs about 230 real dollars, not 230 purchasing-power-parity dollars.
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