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$5,499 Dell XPS

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what a rip i believ, you can make lower monthly payments on a car then that machine. i would immagine a Mac Pro would be alot better, and cheaper.
 
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but that is also a quad core
 
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If it's a single chip Quad Core it would be in the same neighborhood as the MacPros, they simply have 2 dual Cores. It may have some advantages in the areas where efficiency counts more since it is a single chip, but would be about it.
 
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Anand of Anandtech tried the new Quad Core Xenon CPU's in the Mac Pro and they worked perfectally. There is a review on Anandtech.
 
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dtravis7 said:
Anand of Anandtech tried the new Quad Core CPU's in the Mac Pro and they worked perfectally. There is a review on Anandtech.
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did he try those or the new quad xeons?
 
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mr g5 said:
did he try those or the new quad xeons?
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Opps, I posted that so fast I did it wrong. Yes, the Quad Xenons!!!! Will go edit my post.
 
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I think Dell has lost it's mind. It's a nice set up but for 5500 hundred dollars thats a little off base.I would buy a Mac Pro and a large display and run boot camp. Wait I already did that. Dell sells good monitors just there PC's are a rip in my opinion.
 
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This sort of flips the whole who is selling the overpriced computer argument around. Sorry, but could never spend that kind of money on a Dell.
 
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ya, I could never justify that kind of price on a dell either lol.
 
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Ya i'm with sunset.

I would get a Mac Pro 3.0, 4gigs of RAM, ati gpu and a 30in display. With the education discount, 6 grand
 
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mr g5 said:
Ya i'm with sunset.

I would get a Mac Pro 3.0, 4gigs of RAM, ati gpu and a 30in display. With the education discount, 6 grand
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But it says 2.66 next to your name.
 
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But it says 2.66 next to your name.
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If I was going to spend 6 grand on a computer that would be my setup.

My setup monitor included costed around 3 grand
 

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