Nice looking PC hardware?  

Yeah --
and a flame war is so refreshing on a design site !
My three-year-old iMac has forty screen lines, two wide bands (one green, one pink and "sizzling") and a grey band that cuts off the right end of the display. Apple is fixing some of these, but not mine. So I've got a used Dell display in front of my lovely iMac. Nice. . .
You use what pleases you. A Ford/Chevy argument is so pointless -- though there's nothing wrong with a sensible and factual discussion of the relative merits and demerits.

Was a bit dodgy about this...
Was a bit dodgy about this thread but now that SDR has commented perhaps I have something to say.
I use 3dsmax, blender, combustion, cs2, autocad, audition,vegas, dreamweaver and flash... kind of know where I'm going and what can be done AND design with it, to the detriment of my sketching, but thats another topic.
I do this on a 5 year old hp laptop running xp with 512mb of ram with a dual monitor setup. Like any tool I treat it with respect and know its limitations but when you use something for long enough it becomes the means not some exciting toy, it is really pretty secondary.
Computers are not watches, dresses or any other cheap consumable item, they do a job and its consistency and the result that matters. Mac or PC? I don't think it matters, show me what you can create with it, thats what counts.

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Now that's interesting,...
Now that's interesting, igor. What company is this?

Hi whitespike. This pc is...
Hi whitespike. This pc is Philco. I like a lot things from 50s/60s or things that remember this years (retro etc). I collect furniture and refrigerators from Brazil about this time (50s/60s). This PC is really very beautiful. Has more pictures of this here:
http://technabob.com/blog/2009/12/14/retro-style-philco-pc/
In another address you can see another CPU wiyh retro style, but the Philco is perfect for me...

Abraços
Igor

Apple will become the most expensive company in the world
I don't think anybody on this board really understands the significance of Apple's current market cap of 230 billion dollars, especially jenocide. To regress a bit, back in 1997 Apple had a market cap of around 500 million dollars and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
But Steve Jobs comes back to Apple in 1997 after being fired by the board of directors in an infamous 1985 power struggle. The rest of course is history. The stock climbs back from the lows of around $3.00/share in 1997 to around $250/share today. That's over an 8,000% rise in 13 years.
Apple is today the second most expensive company in the world. And I would bet that Apple becomes THE most expensive company in the world before the end of 2010.