I just configured a Mac Pro with the most expensive hardware options available, and it was a whopping $11,899.00.

Dang that is crazy for a computer Joseph Did you actually pay for it or just configure it and what did you get for that price if I may ask?

By the way, I am not a total apple hater as I do own an ipod mini as well as a 60 gb ipod video and I use itunes more then media player for mediafly.com and to make smart playlists with

I currently have a mac mini, it does all I want well, I can even use photoshop to edit photos, the problem there lies in my lack of photoshop skills. I think its enough computer for me, would I like one thats all maxed out? Heck Yeah but I think its getting to the point where processor speed is meaning less and less. There is a point when a computer is good enough and I can't afford to keep up with the Joneses nor do I feel the need too. We have two windows machines here we are getting fixed up and I shudder to hear them start up. Too noisy I don't miss that sound.

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Good Lord, no, I did not buy that! I just wanted to see what the most expensive Mac would cost. Not even a really geeky home user needs that much power. That Mac Pro would have been for animation or photo studios doing some very heavy design work, or a science program doing some really heavy-duty modeling.

So even maxed out it's not for games then That leaves most people with the choice of PC then

I don't game, so I don't know if this is good or not. The graphics card options were as follows.

ATI Radeon 5770 1GB
2 ATI Radeon 5770 1GB
ATI Radeon 5870 1GB

That's pretty good for a graphics card as I myself use 1 ATI Radeon 5770 1GB card

Thats bogus , I have a $900 10 year old ibook G4 that still works , and a guy at work has purchased 5 $300-500 windows laptops in the same time period because they have went kapoot so wheres the bargain ?
I rest my case

spray you know darn well that those 300-500 dollar computers are trash and basically shovel ware to people who can't afford a good computer or that are buying a computer for the first time

BY GOD we will turn you into an APPLE lover some day Trall !!!!!!

Tral don't do fruit, only nuts

Seems I'm always on the outside looking in.

You dont want to go down THAT rabbit hole
Oh and I want that aluminum all polished out like a mirror while your at it !!!

Did you put those purddy welds on that ?

Listening to Bowie on the Ipod I do some fruity products once in a while

Listening to tech news today and becoming more and more antisocial as time goes by

My pitiful Saturday night...