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That old PC v Mac thing again…
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big_D
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That sounds about the same as the 8 year old Windows machines here... 
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didgeman
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There will always be good machines & bad ones of any make but i have yet to see a better designed / built machine than a mac pro. The engineering is exemplary. Didge.  _________________eurotech
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oceanicitl
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Coonnnnrrrr and what a lovely innards it has too! _________________Still the official cheeky one 
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veato
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I maxxed one out for a laugh. Everything but software, accessories like printers and the like and fibre channel cards.
Almost £16K! Wow
That was 2 x 2.93GHz 6-core Xeons, 32GB RAM, 4 SSDs, crossfire 5770s, two 30" cinema displays, etc etc
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oceanicitl
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That's a brand new car! Or even 2 lol _________________Still the official cheeky one
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jonbwfc
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yeah, but you'd never have to use your central heating again  Jon
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big_D
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Try the same with a Dell or HP, you can easily get to double that, although you will then have a professional workstation, with workstation components...
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didgeman
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But not nearly as nicely engineered ...  Didge. _________________eurotech
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big_D
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With dual X5680 processors, 192GB RAM, 5 SAS drives for RAID controller, dual nVidia Quadro 4GB FX5800s (4K per), X-fi Titanium sound and nVidia Tesla C1060 GPGPU, the prices for a Dell comes in at over 30K€. Although I cheated a bit, you can't have dual 4GB graphics card and the Tesla unit, so take about 6K off that price. That's on their standard configuration page, you could order a better RAID controller and more disks, if you do a special order.
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