Lesseehere...you've got a popular video card from a major manufacturer, and you have to "turn down the eye candy" and stop playing graphics-intensive games and turn the computer off frequently and suffer long load times...that sure as heck beats a Mac how exactly?
A maxed-out Mac Mini with big flat-panel is about $2500. And it works. Methinks it's time.
Nope, and I will tell you why. WHile on a Mac I could do all of the the productivity I need to do but then I wouldnt be able to do all of the fun things I also want to do, like gaming, Myst just hasnt done it for me in 14 years. Also I like to continously upgrade my computers as long as I own them until I cant squeeze any newer hardware into them, the Mac just doesnt provide the upgrade paths I look for in a computer.
do the iMac...
I'm sitting here surfin FR, while I convert six mpg video files to MP4.H264 encoding. I'm also, at the same time, writing 24 Season 6 episodes to DVD's using iDVD.
If I tried this on my XP box it would blow up.