Quote from: BXGTi16VSurely one could build a higher spec pc for half that money ?

Thats ABSURDLY expensive.

EDIT - my citrix servers are more powerful, with twice as many cpus and cost a good deal less than that. GFX performance wouldnt be good though.

yeah but when you bring a chick back an she says what is that ugly piece of sh*t in the corner, youve pretty much knocked yourself down a peg for not having much taste.


plus you cant play garage band on that overly complex thing

Yeah, the last bird I banged totally did me because of my computer.

My god, you can tell this is a geeky computer forum cant you  

yup.


well i didnt really have much ammo on that, but lets face it comparitivly a server an a g5 cannot be compared in teh aethetics department

Quote from: funkychicken9000Yeah, the last bird I banged totally did me because of my computer.

My god, you can tell this is a geeky computer forum cant you  

you smell of cheddar...

FACT

fishstick face.

Quote from: Badabing* Two 2GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
    * 1GB (2 x 512MB)
    * NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
    * 160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
    * 1 x SuperDrive
    * Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse
    * Mac OS X

    * Five USB ports
    * Two FireWire 400 ports
    * Two FireWire 800 ports

Ã,£1200 (uni discount) i may buy one at that price.

Bar the OS, its nothing but a PC and could be bought for a whole lot less than Ã,£1200.

Quote from: red

Quote from: BXGTi16VSurely one could build a higher spec pc for half that money ?

Thats ABSURDLY expensive.

EDIT - my citrix servers are more powerful, with twice as many cpus and cost a good deal less than that. GFX performance wouldnt be good though.

yeah but when you bring a chick back an she says what is that ugly piece of sh*t in the corner, youve pretty much knocked yourself down a peg for not having much taste.


plus you cant play garage band on that overly complex thing

When you build a PC no says you have to buy a sh*t looking case!

tbpfh, that *is* a sh*t looking case. It looks old. Almost 1990s.

Quote from: Walrusbonzo

Quote from: Badabing* Two 2GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
    * 1GB (2 x 512MB)
    * NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
    * 160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
    * 1 x SuperDrive
    * Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse
    * Mac OS X

    * Five USB ports
    * Two FireWire 400 ports
    * Two FireWire 800 ports

Ã,£1200 (uni discount) i may buy one at that price.

Bar the OS, its nothing but a PC and could be bought for a whole lot less than Ã,£1200.

Hmm

Lets examine...

Assuming its the 2GHz option then.

2 Xeon 5130s, Ã,£244 each at Insight
Supermicro X7DAE - Ã,£366 at this place that Ive never heard of
2x512MB Kingston FB-DIMMs - Ã,£148 at Another place Ive never heard of
256MB 7300GT - Worth about Ã,£60 anywhere

That is Ã,£1062 before we factor in a power supply, case, hard drive, operating system and optical drives.

That is an E-ATX board so well need a fairly large case. Something like an Antec P180 should do. Ã,£90 at Dabs.
PSU: It needs to be an EPS one so how about a Coolermaster model here Ã,£72
160GB Seagate - Ã,£40
Superdrive - Ã,£30
Decent keyboard and mouse - Ã,£40
Windows XP Pro x64 (has to be pro for the dual processors): OEM Version can be got for about Ã,£90

That works out at Ã,£1424 which is pretty similar to what Apple sell the Mac Pro for inc VAT.

I may not have chosen the cheapest motherboard available but frankly I couldnt find any with 4 PCIe x16 slots. That is the closest I could find to the Apple one.

Im not a great apple fan, Ive never got on very well with OSX but I have to hand it to them, theyve got a nice good value for the spec system here.

Agreed, It is not that overpriced.  Also let us not forget which market the mac pro has being aimed at, the professional, graphic designer, multimedia, cad user etc, whatever/whoever it may be.

With Apple, what you get is a working machine, out of the box.