re hongkong ku from kinau mondrian csufresno edu kin hung au date apr ku gmt organization california state university fresno ku message id c ev t g a zimmer csufresno edu newsgroups ku comp sys mac hardware ku ku in hong kong you can buy a cheap pc or based computer ku however it is very experience to buy a macintosh last winter i was ku back to hong kong i saw the price of mac classic in hong kong is same ku price to buy a lc in the u s ku ku i am not recommended to buy mac in hong kong since mac is not popular ku in hk ku ku kin hung au hello mr au i have to disagree regarding your assessment of macintosh in hong kong the mac has a sizeable share of the typesetting market as in the u s a local magazine next magazine similar to newsweek here uses the mac extensively i have seen sir speedy and other franchises in hong kong equipped with mac based systems true the discount is not as steep as here because customers in hong kong cannot buy from gray market nor are mac being sold thru mass merchandisers like apple does here with the performa lin e at this point the sale of mac is handled by one exclusive distributor on the other hand you can always get a pc clone or in the earlier days illegal clones of the apple iie your perception of the mac not being too popular in hong kong is simply because most hobbyists and users find it much cheaper to go to one of those basement stores that sell pc clones with probably illegal copies of bios than to pay for a mac similarly you cannot say lotus surely is not well accepted in hong kong because the sale is so low may be it is because of all those places in kowloon where illegal copies of lotus can be bought for and for a professional looking but illegal copies of the manuals eric choi internet eric choi p f n z fidonet org
