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The $20,154 Computer

Flat

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? 733MHz PowerPC G4
? 1.5GB SDRAM - 3 DIMMs
? 3x72GB Ultra160 SCSI - Dual card
? Apple Cinema Display (22" flat panel)
? Zip 250 Drive
? DVD-R/CD-RW
? NVIDIA GeForce3 - 64MB DDR-SDRAM
? 3 RAGE 128 PCI cards - 16MB each
? Ultra SCSI PCI card & cable adapter
? 56K internal modem
? Apple Pro Speakers
? AirPort Card
? Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
? Mac OS - U.S. English
? 3yr AppleCare Protection Plan-Power Mac+Display
+3 more Cinema Displays!!!!
 

Oyeve

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All that exspensive equipment and no decent software to run on it! :)
 

RaynorWolfcastle

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[shakes his head] again trying to stir things up Flat, eh? I'll make a bet with anyone that this ends up as a flame war

that 22 inch lcd does look gorgeous though ;)
 

Flat

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*stirring cauldron of mac hate*
What me have a contraversial topic! Never! :confused:

The most expensive PC I could build was a Falcon Northwest for about 8k
 

erub

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damn, not even a dualie :). My car is worth about that much (95 Cutlass Supreme SL w/ 40000 miles), wanna do a straight up trade?
 

joohang

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Look what I came up with for $5700 CDN (~ $3700 US):

$891.25 - Tyan Thunder K7
$600.00 - Dual AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.33 GHz
$453.16 - 1GB (4x 256MB) PC2100 ECC DDR SDRAM (Crucial)
$1,030 - 2x (RAID0) Seagate X15 18.4 GB 15,000 rpm
$150 - Matrox G450 DualHead
$150 - 10X Slot-load DVD-ROM
$250 - Hercules GameThatre XP
$500 - Nice Dolby surround speaker system
$1200 - 2x 15" LCD monitors
$300 - Quiet components (<28 HSF for the 2 Athlons)
$150 - Natural Keyboard Pro, Intellimouse Explorer
$25 - 100 Mbps Ethernet adapter
Total: $5,699.41

Add a 24&quot; Sony monitor and a GeForce3 and it will still cost less. :) Hell.. add a 50&quot;+ plasma display for gaming.

Now that would be a drooling machine. :)
 

Hender

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I'm not a big Mac person, but I do know that if I had a dual 733 Mhz G4 setup, I could rule the world. :)
 

joohang

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<< I'm not a big Mac person, but I do know that if I had a dual 733 Mhz G4 setup, I could rule the world. :) >>


No way in h*ll. Dual Palomino 0wnz j00 all.

(ack! I just typed in h4x0rish characters!!)
 

joohang

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<< What's the deal with 4 video cards and 1 monitor? >>


LOL :)

My config rules. Matrox + 2 15&quot; LCD for normal use. 24&quot; Sony or plasma for gaming on GeForce3.
 

Flat

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<< What's the deal with 4 video cards and 1 monitor? >>



LoL thats right, I could add 3 more Cinema displays... $20,154
 

Hanpan

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Allright here we go.

THunder k7 575.00
2x amd 1.4 ghx cpu's (will be available monday) estimate 450.00
1 gig ram 256MB DDR PC2100 ? CL=2.5 ? Unbuffered ? Non-parity ? 2.5V ? 32Meg x 64 x 4 265.00
Sony f520.00 x 4 3600.00
DVD-R 600.00
Zip drive 250 scsi 140
Geforce 3 365.00
3x pci video cards 300.00 (ati or pick whatever)
pioneer 305s dvd 110.00
Adaptec 3200s 650.00
8x 36 gig ibm 36z15 15,000 rpm 4800.00 Raid 10
Klipsch promedia 5.1 400.00
Microsoft natural keybaord pro and mouse 150.00
Microsoft 2000 Advacned server 1000.00
Wtx server case 1000.00
REdundant power supplies 1000.00

Roughly $15,405

 

Agamar

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I installed Win98SE on a mac using the Virtual PC 4.0. The mac is a G4 733 tower with 256M PC133, and a Rage128 vid card. the win98se ran great too. Even allows to boot to a floppy drive. I am going to see if I can clone it with Imagecast :)
 

Soccerman

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you ridicule it now, but I'd have to say that if you actually got to use it, you'd be impressed by it's looks.. oh, scuse me, I mean DROOOOOLLLING by it's looks..

btw, notice how at the bottom it says 3 more cinema displays, so that would be a total of 4 monitors and for video cards (though don't ask about the PCI slots, cause I don't know, and I doubt many of you do too).

perhaps there's a reason why people like macs, so that they can't be considered part of the PC group, some of which can't count..