Interested in the specs on your $800 beast.
If you are going to do it that way, why not build a Hackentosh so you can run OSX as well as Windoze?
- 2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 4MB Cache FSB 1333
- Thermaltake Quiet TR2 M21 RX A4021 18dBA
- GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard w/630i, DVI, HDMI, PCIEx, 8-Channel Audio, LAN, 4xSATA, 2xDDR2, 1333FSB)
- 4GB PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz Memory
- 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA300
- 20X Samsung SH-S203N SATA Lightscribe DL DVD±RW DVD-RAM w/Nero
- 256MB nVidia GeForce 7200GS GDDR2 PCI Express DVI/Tvout
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
- CoolerMaster Black Elite-330 case
- 550watt Cooler Master eXtreme PS
- And just because I'm Old School...a 1.44 Floppy Drive
I was mainly interested in updating the setup I already had. I'll be slaving my existing 250 Gb HDD onto the new MB which has an IDE interface. Plus a 500 Gb USB drive for snaps and clones, I'll have almost a Tb of storage.
I upgraded from a PIII-133Mhz FSB w/786 Mb RAM that has been a workhorse for 8 years.
I'll likely own a Mac someday. But for the foreseeable future, Winders and Linux do me just fine.