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With some exceptions, a PC is a PC is a PC. It's all the same Asian components, from all the same sources, assembled in virtually identical factories. Don't delude yourself into thinking a small manufacturer's products are any less reliable or built with any less quality than Dell's. The small manufacturers are the ones who will fight tooth-and-nail to bring you a better price than anyone because all they have to rely on is word of mouth from happy customers - not massive "Dude, Yer Gettin' a..." advertising budgets. If this company is unknown to you (there are hundreds more just like it out there), that's your problem, as I've already established that it is perfectly capable of delivering a Mac-crushing PC at a sub-Mac price, with Mac-like quality - that's right, name-brand components built in the same Taiwanese ISO9001 factories as Macs are.
I agree, and as I said before, what is there to build here? The Systemax comes fully assembled, ready to run out of the box, to no less extent than an Apple. You never, ever, have to even SEE the inside of the machine.
Wooptie-doo - whatever Mac you can find, I can find you a substantially cheaper PC with the same or more features to murder it performance-wise. You still haven't found me a $1729 Mac faster than the Athlon I brought up in my last post. No, the 933MHz Power Mac doesn't even come close. I'm STILL waiting. Why not just stop deluding yourself, give up, and concede that PCs generally offer better price/performance? Again, not necessarily price/usability, or price/ease-of-use, but price/performance.
Alex