Originally Posted By: drakino
Matt, if you do go with a Mac Pro, make sure you don't gimp it somehow like taking one of the processors off the order. When I bought mine last year, going from 2 2.8ghz chips down to one would have cut $500 off. The Xeon processor alone is at best ~$900 today, and then add in the price of having to get the heatsink for the system.

Oh I definitely wouldn't take one of them out. The only changes I made to the base configuration was basically upgrading the video card, which brings it to something like $2949.

And I would love to know who buys extra memory from Apple. Those are the most absurd prices I've ever seen from a legitimate retailer. Frankly I'm a bit appalled by them, and that makes me wonder about the price of the entire system. I expect a certain amount of "Apple tax," but $500 for 2GB of memory is robbery.
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Matt