I willhave to chose between:
PC
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Dell XPS 600
(Media Center) CPU Only 3.4GHz 1GB 500GB DVDRW DVD
$300 Off Reflected in Price
NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI X16 MCP
256MB nVidia GeForce 6800
Audigy™2ZS Dolby® 5.1
3-Year Warranty
$2,199.99
Processor & Memory:
Intel® Pentium® 4 650 Processor at 3.4GHz
with Hyper-Threading Technology
NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI X16 MCP chipset
(2 full-bandwidth 16-lane PCI-Express allows future upgrades to dual GPUs)
800MHz Front Side Bus
2MB L2 cache
1 GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 512MB) expandable to 2GB (4 DIMM slots)3
Drives:
500GB Serial-ATA RAID 0 (2 x 250GB) Hard Drive
16x DVD+/-RW - CD & DVD Burner with double layer write capability.4
16x DVD-ROM Drive
13 in 1 Digital Media Card Reader
Graphics & Video:
256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia™ GeForce™ 6800 Graphics
Dual TV Tuner with remote control (watch, play or record different sources simultaneously)
Communications:
56K PCI Data/Fax Modem
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet5
Audio:
Sound Blaster® AudigyTM2 ZS (D) Sound Card w/DVD Audio, Dolby® 5.1 capability, and IEEE 1394 (Firewire) port
Dell A425 Speakers with Subwoofer
Keyboard:
Dell® Wireless Keyboard
Dell® Wireless Optical Mouse
Expandability:
Expansion slots: 3 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 2 PCIe x16 (graphics) slots
4 DIMM slots. Memory installed in pairs for dual channel
Ports:
Video: 2 DVI and 1 S-video connectors
Two PS2 ports (mouse and keyboard)
Two IEEE 1394 ports (1 front, 1 back)
Eight USB 2.0 ports (2 front, 6 back)
Front mounted headphone jack
Audio: 7.1 channel out (3 jacks), line in and microphone
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet network connector
Internally Accessible: Single IDE Channel: 40-pin connector (two devices)
Chassis:
or
MAC
$2,849
Dual-core 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processor
1.15GHz frontside bus per processor
1MB L2 cache per core
512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200)
250GB Serial ATA hard drive
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three open PCI-Express expansion slots
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB GDDR SDRAM