Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

actually earlier this year (about 2 months ago) I was in the market for a new computer and I did compare spec for spec. I was willing to pay a small premium for a Mac and convert all to Mac knowing that Parallel and Bootcamp were offered.

I was able to get a 2.14 Ghz Core 2 Duo 2Gb RAM 512MB video card 250Gb HD, 1 week after the Core 2 Duo launch for $1200. At the time, Mac didn't offer it, but comparing again, similar performing procs via tomshardware.com I couldn't get anything in the Mac flavor for anything less than $2,000. The extra money I saved, I bought dual 19" monitors and a nice ergo stand for them. I bought 2 systems one for me and one for the wife. The Macs I looked at would have been $5,000 for both systems and that was without any monitor.

If you can find a deal like that now, please show it to me.



as far as the savings is concerned saving now only means that the specs you buy will be even better.