Originally Posted by Willravel

Instead of buying a new Mac mini or iMac to play SC (it won't play on my Mac mini with the integrated GMA video), I've decided to put together a custom gaming rig with the singular purpose of playing StarCraft 2. I've got the SC2 disc sitting on my desk and the Newegg shipment won't be here until Monday, which is an eternity. Still, once I get the thing together, I'll have a quad-core AMD machine with a Radeon HD 5770 that can handle most games out there easily. The fact I can get such a fast machine for about $600 really does tell a tale about the premium Apple puts on their hardware.

It's going to be strange switching over to Windows 7 after using OS X for so many years.