"Sweetheart, We Have Another Baby."

A picture paints a thousand words. So here are two thousand words worth of pictures:





Beaming with pride eh? Her face in these pictures reminds me of how she looked in each of those five hospital deliveries. "Sweetheart, we have another baby." Hehe..

Including the payment for a bigger hard drive (120GB, where the basic is 80GB) and for Apple Care, this baby costs 198,150 yen (75,297 pesos at .38 peso per 1 yen). She would not have been able to buy that same package in the Philippines at that same amount. As I pointed out in the previous post, a MacBook (with 80GB) costs almost 90K here. Adding the price for the increased hard drive capacity and the Apple Care will surely raise the price to around 100K.

This discrepancy was brought about by the strong peso. It is now about .38 peso for every yen. Last year, at about this same time, it was .46 per yen. So we reckoned that we have to do the buying there. The 198,150 yen price would have translated to 91,149 pesos.

And because she got a certification from Kyushu University that she is a student there, she also got a discount of 22,000 yen (8,360 pesos). So the baby actually cost her 176,150 yen or 66,937 pesos. Good deal indeed.

In the next couple of days, she will shop for infant accessories like a mouse, a USB modem, a VGA connector, and a backpack. Congratulations, Mrs. Nocon!