MacPro
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
$2,499.00
Okay, how's this:
One 20MHz Intel 80386
8 MB system RAM
640x480 orange plasma VGA, 1/2MB video RAM
100MB P-ATA 5400-rpm drive
3.5" Floppy
$9,000.00
My Toshiba T100 portable, c. 1989 ;-)
I upgraded it with a Cyrix 40MHz 486 "386-upgrade" in 1994, and swapped the hard drive for a 340MB in 1997. The machine continued to provide good service, supporting Win95 in only 8MB of RAM, until it was retired in 2000.
I had a dozen other machines by then, of course, including two much smaller and more capable portables. The reason I kept using the Toshiba was that it was the only reasonable portable with a pair of ISA bus slots, which I needed for my consulting work.
Plus, I was loathe to trash my (by then) $11,000 investment. *sigh* Sic transit.