Papichulo#66
"The Mac Clone
Custom built PC to order Matched to baseline Mac Pro
Supermicro MBD-X7DWE-O Dual LGA 771 $429.99
Intel Xeon X3360 Yorkfield 2.83GHz x 2 $1109.98
Kingston HyperX 2 GB ECC FB-DIMM $134.99
Seagate Barracuda 320 GB SATA 3.0 $79.99
Sapphire Radeon HD 2600XT 256 MB $34.99
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 $27.99
Cirago BTA Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR USB $9.99
SYBA 1394a FireWire400 Controller $12.99
SYBA 1394b FireWire800 Controller $29.95 on outletpc.com
Lite-On DL-DVD Burner $23.99
Lian-Li PC-A71A Aluminum Full Tower $229.99
Thermaltake Toughpower W0155RU $319.99
Keytronic E06101USBC Keyboard $38.99
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical OEM $11.99
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate $277.49
Total price $2773.33
Price difference $5.67
The above is essentially a baseline Mac Pro replicated using the cheapest minimum required components to build. The difference? A negligible $5.67. Those who claim that they can build "the same" PC for half the price are at this point baseless." (forras)