2x 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors

2x ?.?? GHz Hexa-Core Xeon processors??

16GB (8x2GB) 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM

6GB (6x1GB) 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM

12GB (6x2GB) 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM

4x 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA HDDs

4x 640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA HDDs?

ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB

Other goodies (RAID card, sexy monitor, etc)

…$10,276

~$9000? Better?

I'm thinking about it semi-seriously.

What would I use it for? Uh… um… hmm. Who cares? It's freaking awesome! I'll find something to use it for.

FYI, thanks for the hardware suggestions, but… it's a Mac Pro. I'm mostly limited to the choices Apple gives me, so that graphics card is the best option currently. When they update the Pro with the hexa-core Xeons, hopefully they'll update the graphics card too.

I'm somewhat considering going with 2 small SSDs in RAID 0 for OS and applications, and 2 450 GB, 15k RPM HDDs in RAID 0 for my files. Insanely expensive though… it'd drive the price back up to $10k. (Not considering the need for an external drive for backup) Or! 4 450GB 15k RPM drives in RAID 5? That'd be around $12k… pretty harsh. But I could live with the standard single 640 GB 7200-rpm drive for a while until I make the money to buy the fancy new drives.

Heh, it's nice to dream. And I could do it too, but…

I think I'm gonna go with something a little more practical for my lifestyle and significantly lighter on the wallet:

A gaming laptop. $4000.

18.4" 1920 x 1080 screen

Core i7 Extreme 8MB L3 Cache 3.20GHz

8GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M 1GB GDDR3

3x 500GB 7200RPM HDDs in RAID0

4X Blu-ray Reader 8X DVD+/-R DL Super-Multi Drive

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd…. Microsoft Office. lol

For now, that is. Maybe sometime down the road…