At 9:54 PM -0600 11/15/07, Craig A. Finseth wrote: > ... > It seems that with an $800 investment you can build a computer that > runs OSX roughly as well as a $2500 Mac Pro. > ... > >I really doubt that an $800 PC is equivalent to a Mac Pro: the price >difference in hardware is really not very large anymore. > >Maybe an $1,100 iBook. Since the $2,500 Mac Pro has two dual-core 2.66Ghz Xeon processors and can take 16Gb RAM, while this 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4Gb, you are right. Though it's more like the low-end Mac Book Pro thanks to the graphics. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |