Yeah I have the choice of sticking to DDR2 which is just as good as DDR3 in pretty much EVERY case. And they used to charge $9600 for 16GB of DDR2 a year ago when someone tried talking me into getting Mac. At that time I could get 8gb of DDR2 for $40 bux after rebates on techbargains. No it's not ECC but I DON'T WANT OR NEED ECC. Regardless, I have to start at $2500 base price just to get a computer without the monitor attached (I have a beautiful 24" and 30") already.

Besides the punchline of my post was, I would pay Vista prices for OSX but they're too snobby to disable the BIOS lock. So saying that leopard costs $29 is an effing LIE. It would cost $2499 for me and not only get software that's obsolete in 3 years, but an enormous piece of aluminum to go with it.

Sure, you only have to pay twice as much for the non-upgradable hardware to run it.

$6100 dollars for 8 4Gb sticks from the apple store (configuring a mac pro). That's about $400 at newegg.

It's crap to compare the price of Mac OSX to Windows. I'd gladly pay Vista prices to run OSX on a PC.