[Yossarian]

That seems a bit expensive for something that'll be "obsolete" in a year or two

And that would be a fair opinion, if the price was really that high. Methinks PC World wants to perpetuate the "Apple is overpriced" mantra.

If you go to the Apple on-line store you see that the Quad's base price is $3,299.00. The base config is

• Two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 processors
• 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200)
• 250GB Serial ATA hard drive
• 16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB GDDR SDRAM

PC World picked all the upgrades where Apple makes high margin: a super-expensive video card, 4 Gigs of overpriced ECC RAM, and the bigger and additional hard drives. Mose sane users save thousands by using a qualified 3rd party for those things, if they even need them at all.

[Mr. Thorne]

Exactamundo.

Just upgraded our visual department: 3 of these beauties, with 30" cinema displays, but we kept the base hard drive and wrangled with our rep at the store for them to match Apple's 'free 2 gigs o' ram' offer.

That monitor is GORGEOUS. I mean the color, the resolution, ay caramba. I'm in Graphic Design Heaven...