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I would rather have a computer that cabojoe thinks is desirable than what Steve Jobs will mandate. Nice back peddle on the hyperthreading. I never said the Mac doesn't do it, that's you talkin. I watched you give the 1066 memory is > than 800 memory lecture, I know I don't need to give you the 1600 > than 1066 lecture. With i7, processor speed and memory bandwidth are king. And where is the upgrade path with that monitor. Next year I go ATI Eyefinity with two more monitors. Easy and cost effective for me, hard for the iMac owner. Upgrade path for the processor? Drop in a 6 core whenever I want. Intel comes up with new killer invention? Change out the mobo. As to comparing prices, you're the one that is doing that. I set a target price and stuck to it when I ordered. When I said it cost me 2500 delivered, I meant it. Even the mail in rebates were calculated. Doing it your way with your pretty little lists and stuff, trying to inflate my price, 6 months after the fact, is what is screwing you up. Specs of the challenge? They were simple...go back and read them, don't make them up as you go. Now I have to say this, and I know you aint gonna like it. I was in Bestbuy last week and saw an iMac sitting like a lone bird over on the little Apple table. I had to point and laugh. It looks gay. I laughed so hard that I was shadowed by the store's Mac geek throughout the store.

Virtual or not, it don't matter, it looks like eight cores to the OS. Read my original post, something about "4 cores going 3.8 (or 8 cores if you will)". Don't ever try to Miss Cleo what I know from over the internet. I have an economic clue also. My house and van and trailers and boat are paid off, and I'm a long ways from going broke. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.

Nice back peddle on the hyperthreading.

What back peddle? You claimed you had 8 cores... I merely pointed out truthfully that you don't. You have only four and that motherboard does not support eight. You and your machine may be fooled into thinking there are eight but that is because of time splitting one into to two.... or four into eight. The one I see backpeddling is you. I suspect others who are familiar with how the Intel i7 works are in agreement with me, not you.

And where is the upgrade path with that monitor.

I don't anticipate upgrading a monitor that is cutting edge... so much that no one else is selling one of this configuration, brightness, resolution, backlight system, etc, yet. The iMac, as currently configured will display to both the 27" built in and an external 30" 2560 x 1600 display either mirrored or as a separate screen.

Upgrade path for the processor? Drop in a 6 core whenever I want.

The i7 in the iMac is socketed too... and you can drop in a 6 core just as easily as well. People have upgraded other Macs by processor replacements in the past. They are not difficult to open.

Doing it your way with your pretty little lists and stuff, trying to inflate my price, 6 months after the fact, is what is screwing you up.

I'm not screwed up nor did I "try to inflate" your prices... I priced what I found today... and took the lowest I found. Given the state of the economy, I would suspect that six months ago, the prices would have been higher. That's it. You merely tossed out a price. You claimed you paid $250 for an i7 that we would have to pay $1000 for. prove that. I listed exactly what came up on Google. Nor did I make them up as I went along. I matched the specs you provided as best as I could, given the limited information you provided, and merely added what the iMac already included in the base 27" iMac model to meet the challenge criteria.

Your BestBuy anecdote is meaningless... you laugh at what you laugh at which is weird. For my part, I point and laugh at you. You look foolish. So what. I don't believe you did that and I don't believe you were shadowed by the "store's Mac geek throughout the store." I really don't believe you found an Intel i7 processor that would clock to 3.8GHz for $250 six months ago...