Archive for January 27th, 2004
Apples, Rhubarb & Custard
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004- 256MB DDR266 SDRAM - 2 SO-DIMMs
- 60GB Ultra ATA drive
- DVD/CD-RW
- Bluetooth Module
- AirPort Extreme Card
- Keyboard & Mac OS
- 1GHz PowerPC G4
- 14-inch TFT display
- Two USB ports
- One FireWire port
- Power Adapter
- Battery
Subtotal Apple UK store: 1,312.99
Subtotal Apple USA store: $1,648.00
$1 = 0.550618 therefore $1,648.00 = 907
1,312.99 – 907 = 405.99
Flight from London to New York: 187
405.99 – 187 = Total saving: 218.99
Amount of Rhubarb & Custard sweets this would buy:
P&P @ 3.99
Sweets @ 1.80/250g(218.99 – 3.99) / 1.80 ~= 119
119 @ 1.80 = 214.20
P&P @ 3.99 = 218.19= 0.80p change
119 0.25kg = 29 kilograms of Rhubarb & Custard sweets
Which is ~64 pounds, which is roughly the weight of the average 8 year old.
Basically, if I were to fly to New York, buy an iBook and fly back again, I’d save enough money to buy the weight of a eight-year old in Rhubarb & Custard boiled sweets.
Revised later to make the kg -> pounds conversion more obvious, upwardly revise the child (from two, to seven, to eight) based on more accurate data and fix broken links
