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Hi Jer!

Welcome to Expat-Blog!

Your discussion has been moved to Riyadh forum enabling you to communicate more easily with members.

Regards
Sheetul

Welcome to the Kingdom Jer

I know the prices around here, not sure how much it costs around your part.

a decent laptop with very good performance would cost you around 4000 SAR
with:
core I5
4 GB ram
400 GB HDD

etc..
usually its toshiba or sony in that price range.

1 U$D is worth 3.75 SAR

and super performance Laptop with awesome great features e.g. blue ray technology might cost you around 10000 SAR, im talking Sony and Toshiba again.

good luck with your laptop fishing trip


Salman

Salman,

thanks for the welcome, I am not in the Kingdom yet but am arriving in about three weeks.

The costs for the laptop seem to be in the same ball park as here. It might be as easy to get some thing here and be all set up and ready to go.

Thanks again.

Jer

Hiya!
I have just moved here, about 2 weeks ago from London and I'd suggest buying your laptop before you head over here. My husband and I both bought ours before we came and I'm glad we did, the prices here are okay but you usually get better deals and packages in the UK and I'm sure Ireland is the same.

Hope that helps and good luck with the move!

Zara

Buy the laptop before you come.

While there are not many, there are some compatibility issues with some programs that might arise. For instance, in my unit I have been fighting Word that constantly defaults to the right margin and writes right-to-left, Arabic document formatting that won't reformat in Western terms, no matter what I do.  Now these might be minor issues to some, they can be highly irritating.

Buy it there...you'll be glad you did.

Welcome to the forum.

Hi Jer,

I am moving to Riyadh in mid to late September from Sydney. My family are joining me later so I know what you are going through. One thing I will say is the group on the forum are very helpful and the threads are many and informative.

Good luck and welcome.

The only problem with buying a laptop from there before coming here is having to deal with warranty claims incase something goes wrong.

As far as MisterStretch's problem. Any tech inclined wiz can fix that problem for you no problem. Regional settings in the control panel, and languages. Delete arabic and you're set to go.

Welcome to Riyadh, I am sure you get this often..but how good are you at limericks

Jer,

Buy your laptop before you come.

Warranty may be an issue, but you will get a much better deal than you will find in Riyadh

The deals in the UK are significantly cheaper than KSA

Hi Jer,

Im going there in mid sept too.

are you moving to work there aswell?

Im curious what as, cos im trying to find people who i might be working with!

I find computers (and computer accessories) to be expensive in Saudia because there doesn't seem to be the sales competition here like there is in the States.

how expensive is expensive?
i think you gotta relate the cs to the respective tax free income when comparing prices, esp in relation to after sales service, warranty etc

Yeah, I think the prices are pretty fair sometimes. Yes, sometimes they're outrageous, but I always compare models and their prices with the online pricing and it's almost relatively close.

I just picked up a new camera in Canada for $400.00. It was $350, and then $50 of tax. Here, it's selling for $420.00 (with a camera pouch). So it's not that much of a difference for a relatively new piece of hardware.

mirfarali wrote:

Welcome to Riyadh, I am sure you get this often..but how good are you at limericks

I utterly rubbish at them, I think you have to be born there is get that talent. I am just a blow in

Looking at the posts I think I will pick something up here before I head out, I am a man of leisure for a few weeks so it will give me some thing to do.

thanks for all the tips.

All you need is a first line and it's easy from there!

There once was a man from Nantucket ...

Let me take over from Allie,

There once was a man from Nantucket ...
who went to fetch water in a bucket
they say he fell down
and broke his crown
And a gal called Jill gave him a ticket

A young schizophrenic named Struther,
Who learned of the death of his Brother,
Said, "I know that its bad,
But I don't feel too sad.
After all, I still have each other

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Hi maubo67, I think that you are lost. This is the Riyadh blog and as you are living in Strasburg you would be better understood there. As it is I have no idea what you are on about.
Regards.
Dave

Come and cyber on Expat-Blog
Where you can even walk your dog
Theres things and thangs
Bings and Bangs
And felines who can fix your cog

There once was a lad from Riyadh,
who wanted to buy an Ipod.


OKAY, help  me finish this!!

There once was a lad from Riyadh,
who wanted to buy an iPod.
He rushed to the store,
He saw plenty and more.
But still waits for a green light from God.

musicman wrote:

There once was a lad from Riyadh,
who wanted to buy an iPod.
He rushed to the store,
He saw plenty and more.
But still waits for a green light from God.

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was once was a lady from KKESH,
Who went out one night in the flesh.

[Now pls help me complete this one dearie]

musicman wrote:

There was once was a lady from KKESH,
Who went out one night in the flesh.

[Now pls help me complete this one dearie]

quick first attempt:

There once was a lady from KKESH,
Who went out one night in the flesh.
Though stuck in the sandpile,
she said with a smile,
Of course I'm from Bangladesh!

Super, puddy tat. this is beginning to get better each time. how about another?

Try this,

A herder of long necked camels
went searching for lithesome damsels.

[all yours]

musicman wrote:

Super, puddy tat. this is beginning to get better each time. how about another?

Try this,

A herder of long necked camels
went searching for lithesome damsels.

[all yours]

ummm.. how come all your limericks are sexy? does mrs. musicman know about this ?!?  lol

Limerick!! Can you imagine that I lived in limerick for 3 months!!! It was in the summer of 2000...already 10 years ago! I had unforgettable time over there! Very nice & happy time anyway!!
So now we are both new in this yellow country (sand), we will miss a lot our green! Imagine I come from a countryside in north of Italy and since I've seen the Irish green I look at my places and they look brown!
Anyway... hope to see you around for a Pint )))
Ciao
Daniele

Alliecat wrote:

musicman wrote:

Super, puddy tat. this is beginning to get better each time. how about another?

Try this,

A herder of long necked camels
went searching for lithesome damsels.

[all yours]

ummm.. how come all your limericks are sexy? does mrs. musicman know about this ?!?  lol

from where did you come to that conclusion?
i dont see anything erotic in camels and damsels

MM you forget.
Alliecat must have a thing for camels.
Remember her last picture.
She was posing with one.

this ones for the camel herdress...

A herder of long necked camels
went searching for lithesome damsels.
upon treading the sand,
he got out of hand,
and went into erotic stumbles.

musicman wrote:

this ones for the camel herdress...

A herder of long necked camels
went searching for lithesome damsels.
upon treading the sand,
he got out of hand,
and went into erotic stumbles.

No no no no no!  I protest !!!!!!!!! Vigorously!!!!

In NO way does 'stumbles' rhyme with camels or damsels!!!!!!!!!!! 

Come on, mm !!!!!!!!!!!!!

For crying out loud, I wracked my brain to come up with Bangladesh to rhyme with KKESH and fresh (and have even risked offending any Bangladeshi's reading it lol).

jillndave wrote:

MM you forget.
Alliecat must have a thing for camels.
Remember her last picture.
She was posing with one.

oh.. and btw... Davie must die! 

lol

Hi All!

The last few discussions are clearly off topic, kindly get back on track or if running out of ideas, start a new topic

Allie,
Protest rejected...
In this age and time of cyber speech, anything goes
you gotta get outa your Flintstone era