Wait for it: overpriced PCs are best left on the shelf.
The reduced buying power of most Asian currencies is the biggest argument against spending on a new computer at the present time. The last supplies of predevaluation computers are being sold, and the new batch, bought with devalued currencies, is significantly more expensive. Only Hong Kong still...
| Publicado en: | Far Eastern Economic Review Vol. 160; pp. 54 - 55 |
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Review Publishing Company Ltd.
November 13 1997
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