{"id":1433,"date":"2013-10-24T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:20:05","slug":"us-to-au-price-comparison-macs-and-ipads-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/us-to-au-price-comparison-macs-and-ipads-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"US to AU price comparison: Macs and iPads 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riding_red\">Michelle Starr<\/a> of CNET has the definitive guide to Australia Tax\/Apple Tax for the latest gadgets from Cupertino:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to the iPad&#8230; Apple is generally pretty consistent with its pricing, and this year, the pricing is pretty close \u2014 once 10 per cent GST is factored in, which US buyers normally don&#8217;t have applied until point of sale, the highest discrepancy is still less than AU$40 or around a five per cent increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new Mac Pro pricing isn&#8217;t as reasonable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Mac Pros stand out, though. The quad-core Mac Pro has a price difference of AU$612.70, or around 18 per cent, while the 6-core model has a gap of about 17 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click through for her full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com.au\/us-price-comparison-macs-and-ipads-2013-339345767.htm\">price comparison chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Starr of CNET has the definitive guide to Australia Tax\/Apple Tax for the latest gadgets from Cupertino:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,94,115,73,17,197,198],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}