Amol Hatwar wrote:

Unless of course, you want to make a style statement or are into using a particular suite of creative applications, you can do very well without a Apple.

For higher performance, a P4 HT 3+ Ghz. with an Asus P800vm ( the one with agp slot) motherboard would suffice. Avoid the Intel original 865 mb. Go for at least 512 Mb-400 Mhz bus Trancent RAM. Use a 350/400W smps instead of the P4 300W one.

Regards,

Rony.