That is very very cool indeed.
The 7970 is around INR 40K
Are you kidding me..? Its 450 USD here..? and yet i feel i can get back the investment.!
Its almost double.!
Yep, thats the difficulty for us in India. Double what it is back there
it is so unfair, drive me mad always. Even second hand Bentley cost in India 2 cr, while same car officially certified by Bentley in UK can be owned around GBP 50K
Too many palms to grease on the way to the consumer.
We also need to realize the massive customs cost that they will apply when the Rig reaches.
Prob its just the case of high end parts like GPU and Processors. I used to assemble PC's when i was in India.! At that point of time, some of the parts like casing and RAM were much cheaper that their counterparts here..!
Some of the things are cheaper in India as compared to here.. for instance Books..! The same publishing house prints books to be sold only in India and Nepal and sells it for like 10% of the original price.. during my masters i used to ask my parents to fedex them to me and still it used to workout cheaper than buying here.
Some of the techy things i still miss from India.. major one being the mobile service.. have been brand loyal to Airtel all my life and it was good for what i did.. the big advantage was NO CONTRACTS.!!
Cellular service here is costly + contracts + limits.! (Though 4G LTE is fast.. its throttled)