Anyhoo... as far as Ive seen through testing of my own just mainly messing around a SP mac can not compare to a SP athlon 64. Also, you may notice that as I said, the mac is far inferior in anything but editing large data files or rendering. In any game a PC will outperform a mac. A PC is less expensive than a comparable mac. Plus, Macs are not NEARLY as upgradeable as PCs. I like to fiddle with my PC, I built it myself, configured, tweaked and edited some of my drivers for my own use, overlocked to the limit, and overall had tons of fun with it. A mac is like a laptop in a way. It's a package deal, you don't want to open it, and if you do they will abandon you on any warantee/gaurantee that they offer. INCLUDING customer service (this happened to my uncle who has a 4 machine dual processor G5 server at his house given to him by BAE systems for cad schematics) He opened up one case to fix it himself and found it a complete mess, everything is AS IS, basically it's hard to troubleshoot a mac because they just assume that it will work, when it fails you don't upgrade, you pay 3 grand for a new machine...I've been upgrading the same pc for 5 years. Granted, there isn't anything from the original anymore, but I can upgrade parts as I get the money to do so. Mix and match to my heart's desire. Try that with a mac.