On 4 Sep 2006 at 18:43, Richard Baker wrote: > Andrew said: > > > Here's a hint: A base price of £1000 is more than I spend on an > > entire PC which is considerably more powerful than the one you > > linked. > > This seems somewhat unlikely when 2.66GHz Xeon 5150 processors cost > around £470 each and the base Mac Pro configuration has two of them, > as well as a relatively high-end graphics card.
The entire system price for the low-end MacPro is £1700. It comes with a Nvidia 7300 GT. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=51 9&model2=547&chart=227 The 7300 GT scores 289. The card I would look at, the X9100XT, scores 1657, and is avaliable for well under £200. Draw your own conclusions. (Incidentally, the CPU's you are reference are only £320 each inc VAT from Insight). Regardless, I do find it a little amusing that the Intel Mac's show such a radical degree of power increase over their PowerPC predecessors when said Intel was put down for years by Mac advocates. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
