My aging Commodore 64 could beat that any day ha ha ha

I loved reading that, the more I read on the more I smiled... knowing, just knowing the pot hole of a graphics card was soon to come up and let the system down. 

If Apple and other OS's arn't going to even 'try' and entice gamers with high spec cards then how are they going to move into that segment!

Multimedia includes games as well!

...comes with not two, or four processors, but a pair

Seriously though, all those processing cores and a Radeon HD 2600 XT?

lol. i have a dual 45nm quad PC (not apple). the innards can be got for less, and aren't "branded" by the fruity brigade ;)

As if the 2600XT didn't feel inadequate enough...

I paid for a P133 system with 16Mb of memory some 9 or 10 years ago. Dammit!

And the top spec one will cost only £16k ($30k)

Isn't that a bit like equipping a Formula-1 car with the wheels off a horse cart? Still, unless you install XP/Vista there won't be any games to make full use of all that anyway...

Us rich Americans think nothing of blowing $27K on a PC, of course, but the article actually quotes a retail price of 2,799.
Ok, fine, I'll actually be building myself a $700 Nehalem PC when it comes out (with Ubuntu to shave the Vista tax). That should replace my old POS 32-bit non-VT Prescott nicely.
But the Macs do certainly sound nice.


I cant wait to rush out and buy one, no really I'm not joking here.

Now if can someone tell me what to do with it exactly.................

Except that the 8core version starts at $2,799 USD.

Very nice box, but it's strange they don't support this gfx card, or is there some specific reason? Seems the graphics hardware is lacking options historically... Current mac pro models have been off my chart of acceptable computers due to the old graphics cards.

With those specs it should be able to run vista pretty nice LOL