seanpears99

Hi all

Just wondering, there is a new dell laptop which I would be interested in buy in the UK for approx £1700.

This laptop on Dell.au is $5700.

If I brought it here and shouldered it as my hand luggage, is there any potential that the customs bods may ask me to pay GST as it will be clearly less than 12 months old?

Regards

Sean

hantsfamily1

Wasnt it a present from your grandma and you have not got a clue about laptops and how much they cost......

Pollyana

Just make sure it doesn't look like its new - get files and stuff loaded on it before you come

I let my nieces loose on the one I bought in the UK last year, they covered it in stickers, no way did it look new after that!

seanpears99

I wish it was a present from grandma lol.

EvannTel

Install XP on it then it will both look old and work properly

hantsfamily1

On a serioius note I have had my laptop over my shoulder a few times coming into Oz and never a question asked about it. But it still came from grandma.

Syedney

I can concur with this too...Never was I asked about my shouldered laptop...They don't even ask me to open the laptop bag!

Of course, had they asked then my gandma is useful then

cookiestar

JenniGee

£1700 sounds a heck of a lot of money for a Dell, with or without XP
PM me & I might be able to point you to somewhere cheaper

cookiestar

For £1700 you could get a lovely, lovely new Macbook Pro. A million times better than a PC

man_called_Horse

I have a Macbook Pro running windows XP on Parallels on Leopard, and Pure XP on Bootcamp. It Ironic that Windows runs better on a Mac than IBM.

seanpears99

Decided on the Sony Vaio Z21ZN/X for £1850 instead of £2500 as the Alienware Dell was 7 week wait time for delivery and I go in three weeks.

The Sony looks lovely and a little more concealable lol

Cheers for the responses tho.

Sean

Hutch

I'm an OSX user myself, but you do know that the claim you just repeated, which was made by Apple in an advert, was ruled false by the advertising authorities and that Apple were fined for making such a ludicrous suggestion?

Hutch

Ah - an Alienware laptop - now the price makes sense. Man they're nice. I own two (increasingly elderly) Vaio laptops - both of which have been excellent.

Swerv-o

Jeez - How does a simple question about import duty on a new computer turn into a Mac vs PC flame war?


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