Forgot to mention that last month I bought a 24 inch Dell LCD.

That's another Grand.

I don't have kids or a wife, but I might have a wife next year (and THAT did play into this decision).

Canis wrote:Sheesh....face the music. The total is $3944.

Well, when I start reading stories about the liquid cooling spilling out over the desktop then I'll go out and get some Applecare. They tried to talk me into the Apple care. I've always pass on warranties. I don't buy products that need extended warranties. Anyway, if Apple was expecting these thing...

I'm trying to forget about the price... But it broke down like this. Dual G5 2.7, 512m ram $2759.00 4 gigs ram $531.00 (Crucial.com) (1gig DIMMS, NOT 512s) ATI X800 XT $495.00 (Other World Computing) Second 200gb SATA drive $159.00 (Best Buy) Total = (i'm not adding this up, I'd much rather just loo...

Buying a computer in an Apple store vice over the Internet is a financially unsafe practice. Powermac Dual 2.7 ghz G5, 4.5 gigs ram, ATI X800 XT. I swore I wasn't going to take a chance on the liquid cooling thing, but apparently the Clarendon, VA Apple store has its own Steve Jobs reality distortio...