Originally Posted by charleski 
I think Australian pricing for Vista is even worse.
From the various comments I've read from our Aussie cousins, EVERYTHING PC-related costs more than here.
I always say to them, though, that it's the price they have to pay for living in such a nice place.
They usually end up having to agree.
And, working on that theory, you'd imagine that the good folk who think that the USA is God's Own Country would fully expect to pay more for things than we do in the UK but they never seem to accept that line of reasoning.