Why don't you build your own computer, Turbo? You have total control over the parts you want in your computer versus what a Company wants you to have.
I hand pick all my parts. If you know what you want and where to get it, you can usually build a better computer than what it costs to buy a brand new one.
Plus, it's fun!
I don't know if you've seen some of my pictures in the gallery, but I've gotten into cosmetic modding which is a lot of fun. You can build a computer with a clear glass side window, led case fans, cold cathode lights, UV sensitive wire sleeves, etc.
Also, you can pick out motherboards which have way more hardware features than what comes on Macs or normal PC's. For example, I'm fond of boards with USB2 and Firewire ports, lots of PCI slots for future add-on cards, and integrated components such as nVidia's SoundStorm audio and integrated ethernet or giganet. Plus, I always go with a RAID board which allows for a total of 8 IDE devices. My current board has regular IDE connections, RAID IDE, and I have the newest SATA RAID controller too. What all this means is that I can have multiple hard drives and multiple optical drives. I currently have 3 hard drives, a DVD ROM, a DVD RW drive, and a ZIP drive. I could even add more. The extra hard drives are nice when I'm doing video editing. If you and the Sibbie ever buy a Digital Camcorder and decide to digitally transfer to your computer for video editing, it will take an insane amount of space.
Anyways, I'm just pointing out that there are advantages to custom building. It's much easier and cheaper for me to keep with the technological advances as well. That's where Apple and other Computer manufacturers get the consumer. They want you to turn around and buy a whole computer for them when you outgrow it. I don't do that. I take out the old and put in the new.
That's my two cents!
SOTK
