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Originally Posted by Luca
So I can spend $500 on that when I could instead spend $500 building an entry-level quad-core system that would completely own any Mac Mini and would have a useful amount of internal storage and RAM. Add a $200 EFI-X on top of that and $700 ought to buy a machine that will run with the $2000, 3.06 GHz iMac.
See, this is why I really don't want to buy a Mac. Even I think they make pretty good laptops, but their desktops are all a rip off.
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Pack your Hackintosh, complete with display, into the iMac form factor and then we'll talk.
Seriously. It's not about the parts; you can't pack desktop-rated components into a case that size. They're using laptop parts, which are more expensive. It also has a display, which your Hackintosh wouldn't (from the sound of it). Just because the costs are for features you don't want/need doesn't make them a ripoff. They're still real costs.