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Damn those macs are expensive

	Intel iMac	Handbuilt PC
Screen	Built in 20 inch	Dell 2005FPW ($959)
Memory	2GB (2 x 1GB)	2 x 1GB (@$107ea)
Hard Drive	250GB SATA	250GB WD SATA ($159)
DVD	SuperDrive	Pioneer DVR110D ($60)
Case	iMac G5	CoolerMaster Centurion 531 380W PSU ($180)
OS	MacOS X 10.4.4	Windows XP Pro OEM ($290)
Graphics	256MB Radeon X1600	256MB Radeon X1600 ($189)
Internal components	Intel Dual Core 2.0ghz	Intel Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz CPU 2Mb; Dual Core ($358) Intel D945 PSNLK ($229)
Subtotal:	$2479.30	$2638
Other items	Apple keyboard, Apple Mighty mouse, built in wifi, bluetooth, iSight	Apple keyboard + Mighty mouse ($113), iSight ($205), PCI 802.11g card ($46), Bluetooth USB dongle ($29.70)
Total cost:	$2797.30	$3021.70

(Disclaimer: Apple prices are educational prices, but the PC is using a faster desktop processor and motherboard.. the iMac is probably using a laptop one, since it's only 2ghz.. a 2.0ghz laptop CPU + motherboard for the PC would be $251 more)

I invite a better priced PC spec, but it must match the iMac in all ways possible, must be PCI-E, have the same video card type, hard drive size, etc :)

Threaded | Flat

i still want the new lappy though... if only it wasnt 3K+!!!

will wait and see what the ibook is replaced with

i just want a dvd burner :((

All from shopbot.com.au
Ram (Corsair ValueSelect): $107ea
HDD (WD SATA): $159
Which is another $70 cheaper.

I would be totally unable to use an Apple keyboard on a PC, so replace that with a simple Microsoft wired keyboard/optical mouse combo for $35 from Harris Tech. HT also supply a PCI 802.11b/g card for $46 (not 108 mbps, though). Mind you, that is an awesome price on the Bluetooth dongle - where from?

I would also expect that an MSI or ASUS-brand motherboard would be cheaper, although I can't be bothered looking through them.

The educational prices are astonishing, though.

My husband gets wholesale prices. You really want me to undercut? :-)

I might have a look at the retail prices for his work a bit later though. Some damn fine samsung monitors out recently.

cost of virus. cost of virus protection. cost of ilife capabilities in functional commercial equivalents. what esle?

It's hard to quantify the experience of 104 and safari as compared to xp pro and IE. I'd put it at at least 12 hours time saved per month...

Shiny! Of course the reason you're crowing about is that Macs have always been pricier than PCs in the past, right?

Without making the software argument (which admittedly can be made in a fair number of ways in favour of Mac OS X) this is basically just a "finally Apple has its boxen at a reasonable price" celebration ;-)

I'm not a Windows advocate myself, but I guess you can assume that Vista will approximately level out the user experience issues in 12-18 months.

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I wonder why the phrase "lies, damn lies and statistics" springs to mind...

If this is PC verses Mac, I'd actually contend outfitting the PC with Mac gear to be cheating. Show me some the lowest prices you can find on non-Mac peripherals that do the same job and then you might convince me. :)