----------------------------------- bugzpodder Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:23 pm desktop ----------------------------------- $1865 www.pccanada.com $365 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 $55 Enlight Steel Mid Tower Case, Black $70 Enlight 450W ATX 12V Ver 2.0 Power Supply $235 Asus® P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe, Socket 775, NVIDIA® nForce™ SLI x 16 Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) $230 Asus® M2N32-SLi Deluxe/Wireless Edition, Socket AM2, NVIDIA® nForce® 590 SLI™ MCP Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) $60 512Mb DDR2 Ram Module, PC5400 $60 512Mb DDR2 Ram Module, PC5400 $120 320GB Western Digital® Caviar® SE16 SATAII-300 7200RPM 16Mb OEM $10 Mitsumi 3½ in (1.44Mb) Floppy Disk Drive, Black $230 Asus® Extreme EN7600GT Silent/2DHT - GeForce™ 7600GT GPU w/256M -1.4ns DDR3 & PCI Express x16 Retail Box $25 USR® / 3Com® 56K Fax/Modem (PCI) v.90 On-Board PCI Sound built-into motherboard On-Board 10/100Mb Lan built-into motherboard $25 Sony 16X DVD-ROM Drive OEM, Black $40 Sony AWQ170A Dual Layer DVD±R/RW Drive (IDE) OEM, Black $20 KeyTronic® KT800 Keyboard w/ Windows keys, Black $15 Logitech® Optical Mouse (OEM) w/ Wheel $1 Economy TechCraft® Mouse Pad - Blue $115 Microsoft® Windows® XP Home w/ CD & Manual (OEM) $390 Viewsonic® VX2025wm, 20.1in Digital Active Matrix TFT Wide-Screen LCD (Retail Box), Black $100 Creative Labs® Inspire™ P7800 Speaker System (Retail Box) 5 Year Labour & 1 Year Parts Warranty ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:33 pm ----------------------------------- You can get a mostly equivalent iMac for $1,849. :) Only real difference is a 250GB drive vs. the 320GB drive in the system you listed, and of course the fact that you can run Mac OS X on the iMac. ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:24 pm ----------------------------------- of course I would prefer Vista over Mac OS 10 :) ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:04 pm ----------------------------------- You can have both. http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:24 am ----------------------------------- Whats the point of having an OS that I don't use? Otherwise I would have installed a distro of Linux already.. Besides, the idea of having a mac mouse frightens me ----------------------------------- md Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:12 am ----------------------------------- You can use a PC mouse with a mac; they are quite compatible. Personally I think the choice of components needs some improvement... a 450W power supply isn't nearly big enough (650W or 700W is much better). !G of ram is not a lot; especially if you intend to run vista. 2G would be a much more realistic figure ram-wise. A floppy? Who uses those! And a modem too! Eck!. Two DVD drives seems like a waste; why have two when one will do just fine? While I am not a far of iMacs (they're kinda ugly...) I also think that you might be paying too much for that computer. ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:46 am ----------------------------------- Well, its customizable, I just listed the default components. I also added individual prices in the original post, which looks reasonable. the parts add up to a whopping 2176... but wth are those both motherboards or something Asus® P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe, Socket 775, NVIDIA® nForce™ SLI x 16 Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) Asus® M2N32-SLi Deluxe/Wireless Edition, Socket AM2, NVIDIA® nForce® 590 SLI™ MCP Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:04 pm ----------------------------------- Whats the point of having an OS that I don't use? What's the harm? :) I mean, if you want to run Vista, and plan on acquiring it legally, XP Home will not entitle you to any kind of discount. So if Vista really is your goal, at least for now, either option would leave you on an even footing.