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As I said, you can check my profile and see I am a professional and don't care what someone decides to use because it's their money. But speaking from a purely Computer Science education background, the Mac Pro is truly the way to go.

You keep saying that, and yet you still sound like little more than an apple fanboy.

As for mac v pc, I'd love a mac, except a good one costs a lot more than building a good pc.  If the originator of this thread is into building PCs, then a quad core chip with a new motherboard and ram coupled with old hard drives, power supply, dvd, video card, and tower, and you're golden for less than $800.  You know, that or buy an equivalent mac for three times the price.  Oh, but it has a better kernal!  Of course, since you'll likely be running 64 bit Vue in 64 bit Windows, that won't matter not a whit.