Honestly, I am against any prebuilt computers. Something about them just bothers me because they are way too overpriced.

When it comes down to it, your hardware can only perform to the limitations of the OS. You don't need 19k to make a computer powerful.

Have to agree with a few other posters that the case is very nice. The firs thing I saw when I looked at the article was the case so I thought a new one came out.

Overkill....

The Best Configuration Mac Pro you can build on the Apple Website costs $16,136.

Configuration:

Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
32GB (8x4GB) RAM
Mac Pro RAID Card
Four 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drives
4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
Two Apple Cinema HD Displays (30" flat panel)
Magic Mouse, Wireless Keyboard.

I'll take the Mac Pro over that SHIFT any damn day... 32 Gb of RAM? Nucking Futs.

This is very good if you have the money to afford one.
Or you can just bulit your own PC and pick the specs that you want with less the price. But to those who have the money and need a supercomputer at home this is for them.

But overkill is defined as a $16K Mac Pro, isn't it?

Even if you take that Mac on 'roids, load Windows 7, (does 7 support dual CPU's, or do you need Server 2008 for that?) you still end up with a sub-par gaming rig next to this triple CrossFire Radeon 5870 HD beast with 3x 30" displays and the Intel Extreme CPU. It is the definition of excess.

You can take either system and get a pimped computer under $8K. But I'd still build my own - I just kind of wish I could get that case to start the build form.

nice try.. but stupidly over priced = looser

it's that simple now esp given the current lack of "extra cash" for most people.

I was just sayin... if I had unlimited funds I'd simply rather get the Mac Pro... But then again, I kind of like building my own just as well, and way cheaper. 8K would in fact get you a nice beastly machine easily, personally, I would rather spend half the money now and have some spare change to upgrade in the future, keep the system lifetime going.

If only I HAD 19 grand...

I still think it's best to build your own PC. It's much cheaper that way.

Wow! 19K! Why would someone spend this much on a computer! I dont see how this can be much better than a computer that costs about an 8th of the price!

Just the right PC for this time of recession. Though I'm pretty sure there'd be people who buy it.

I like that it doesn't have any lights, and the design is certainly interesting.

I know someone that built his own rig similar to this for about $15kAUS about six months ago. He went the extra mile and built his own case as well. The case alone was 30kg. It had a combination of water cooling and 8 silent fans. The short cut he took was only buying 4 vertex SSD drives in a raid configuration instead of intel SSD drives. The reason for the madness of building a machine worth so much was it is a hobby. I suppose everyone needs a hobby and all hobbies cost money.

19 Grand my god.. I can't even think to spent that much on desktop. But it could be ultimate dream pc if any one give me gift. I went to their site and tried to configure the desktop. While configuring i really felt good because lot of option to choose. I guess they have given all the best option to build a ultimate pc which money can buy. but definitely i can't buy this. 19K is more than half of my yearly salary.
But definitely it has become my dream pc with 3 display screen he he..

I managed to max it to $20,790 which includes 8 SSDs... seriously, how much of a percentage gain would that be in the real world over a decent self-build?

i like the way it looks and it has some great parts but id rather build my rig at least i would know i put it together.

If the machine was able to last playing the current games for a long, long time it wouldn't be that big of a deal to spend 3,000 or 4,000 on a PC. Even with the crazy $19,000 PC, it's going to be outdated in a year and there will be much better hardware out. I generally go for one generation of hardware behind to save money and usually get 80% or more of the performance of the cutting edge. Seems like a better way to spend the money knowing how quickly the prices drop and the tech moves forward.

Who really has the money to buy one of these? Personally if was going to waste this much money on a PC I would build it myself so I can get whatever I want in it.

It's companies like this that give PC gaming a bad rap as being uber expensive. I could build an equivalent PC to the base configuration for about $600-700 including a fresh Windows install. Heck, I only spent $1,460 for my complete rig.

Xclio A380PLUS case
Apevia 700W PSU
Core i7 920
EVGA X58 SLI LE
Patriot triple channel 6GB DDR3
Western Digital 1TB HDD
XFX GeForce GTX 260
Samsung CD/DVD burner with lightscribe
Samsung 26" ToC HDTV monitor
Phillips amBX 2.1 complete sound system
Razer Lycosa keyboard

The tower itself was only $960.