{"id":7855,"date":"2009-04-29T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:59:00","slug":"hardware-pricing-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7855-hardware-pricing-comparison.html","title":{"rendered":"Hardware pricing comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband recently looked at a number of online hardware retailers, focussing on pricing points on a number of varied computer products.  For this pricing comparison we selected a basket of basic computing products and looked at the pricing from four of South Africa’s best known IT retailers.<\/p>\n

The stores all have an online presence and deliver their products to the customers via either the postal service or a courier. The products were selected according to competitive pricing points as well as relevance of use to the average PC consumer.<\/p>\n

The following table provides a basic breakdown of product availability and pricing from four major online retailers in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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Hardware Pricing Comparison<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nTake2.co.za<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nProphecy.co.za<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nLandmarkPC.co.za<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nKalahari.net<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PC 800 1024MB DDR2 Memory (Kingston)<\/td>\nR 173<\/td>\nR 159.85<\/strong><\/td>\nR176.70<\/td>\nR 510.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flash Drive-8GB<\/td>\nR 241(Verbatim)<\/td>\nR 267.72 (Kingston)<\/td>\nR 224.58 (Kingston)<\/strong><\/td>\nR 314.95 (Corsair)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intel Q8200 Core 2 Quad CPU<\/td>\nR 2 134<\/strong><\/td>\nR 2 223.62<\/td>\nR 2 145.48<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD Phenom II X4 920<\/td>\nR 2 545<\/strong><\/td>\nR 3 047.56<\/td>\nR 2 665.32<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seagate 500GB SATA II HDD<\/td>\nR 665<\/strong><\/td>\nR 736.87<\/td>\nR 711.36<\/td>\nR 947.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Optical Desktop 1000<\/td>\nR 505<\/td>\nR 592.62<\/td>\nR 448.02<\/strong><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 500<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nR 135.16<\/td>\nR 129.96<\/strong><\/td>\nR 132.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GeForce GTX 260<\/td>\nR 3045 (Asus)<\/strong><\/td>\nR 4157.42 (Asus)<\/td>\nR 3938.70 (Asus)<\/td>\nR 4706.95 (Gainward)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ATI 4850<\/td>\nR 2431(Asus)<\/strong><\/td>\nR 3047.56 (Asus)<\/td>\nR 2887.62 (Asus)<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows XP Home<\/td>\nR 1 090<\/td>\nR 1 038.38<\/strong><\/td>\nR 1 113.78<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Computer Hardware pricing<\/strong><\/a> – do you know of cheaper online stores?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which local online hardware stores are cheapest and best stocked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}