Aaahhhhhh. Much better. I can hear the sea from there. On Aug 17, 2012, at 19:12 , steve harley wrote:
> on 2012-08-17 16:41 John Sessoms wrote >> I don't even want to think about what it would have cost me to get a Mac with >> those specifications. I don't know if I could get a Mac with those >> specifications. > > you may not want to know but others might be curious … > > current top-end iMac is fairly similar - 3.4GHz quad i7, 32GB max RAM, *much* > better GPU, and the price includes an excellent 27" display > > cost is $2200 (or $1870 refurbed) + $300 for 32GB third party RAM > > you don't have to "build" it; that's worth a lot to some people > > the storage setup is rather different; you can get dual internal drives, but > i would opt for cheap externals for now and wait for Thunderbolt options to > settle down; it doesn't include a Blu-ray drive (something i'd have no use > for), but you can get externals -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

