What is a state of the art PC nowadays?

[Spacecadet]

you need to first worry about what you'll be using the PC for first.

Pointless buying a Ferrari and then doing 4 trips to the school each morning to take each of your 4 little darlings there

[Moscow Mule]

£10K for a Mac.

And they say MS are money grabbing barstewards?

Still it looks pretty, so that's all that matters.

Well, it did include two of the worlds most highly regarded 30" screens!

If you're an OS fascist and can't do with anything non-windows, perhaps alienware aurora - maxes out about £3K?

Does use Athlons though, so it's a bit like comparing Apples to, well, lemons.

[b0redom]

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=738

Looks pretty complete, although I'd up the RAM to 8GB.

But really, what do you want to do with it?

[DimPrawn]

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=738

Looks pretty complete, although I'd up the RAM to 8GB.

But really, what do you want to do with it?

Post inane drivel on CUK. Does that needs quad cores?

[b0redom]

...at the rate you do it? Probably....

[Clippy]

...at the rate you do it? Probably....

[Clippy]

How about this: http://h20435.www2.hp.com/

[Moscow Mule]

How about this: http://h20435.www2.hp.com/

No, that's definitely got HP written on it - you don't want that...

[portseven]

Sun do some very nice workstations, in AMD or Sparc flavours, not bad prices either.

[monkeyBoy32]

you need to first worry about what you'll be using the PC for first.

Pointless buying a Ferrari and then doing 4 trips to the school each morning to take each of your 4 little darlings there

Quite right.

Which is why I always have a newish medium spec machine.. Always good enough with latest software and doesn't cost much...