Re: #5

Yeah, maybe you'll have a hard time beating the Mac Pro price for the baseline system, but as you go up the scale it becomes very easy to best. Here's one mid-range example:

Dual 3.0Ghz Quad-core Xeon, 16GB FB-DIMM RAM, Two 1TB SATA-II HDD, One "SuperDrive", 8800GT 512MB Video, 20" LCD, keyboard, mouse, OSX 10.5.

Mac Pro = $8,800
Generic = $4,100 (Newegg.com)

And yes, the motherboard used is verified as working on osx86project.org.

Hmmm, I figured the guy who does this in my home state was the only one with this kind of large scale rust-art, but I guess not! You can see some of his work here:

http://www.jurustic.com