Mine Costed right around $850 for just the tower.

I upgrade components every 2 years, the video card every year and a half now. So overall right now as it stands I would say $3000. Just went quad core and Vista 64 bit. About to upgrade my ATI 4870 1gb to a 5800 series this fall and Windows 7. So theres another $500+ right there. LOL

Mine is a 2.93 GHz 17" MacBook Pro. I bought it refurbished, so $2250.

1500$ Tower alone... I tend to spend less on the cpu, motherboard, memory and more on the case, sound card, storage and HTPC options.

I don't spend more than 300$ on graphic cards anymore. For exemple, my last build got 2 4850 OC in crossfire... and I paid 165$ for both. That was a terrific deal.

1200-1300 $ plus upgrades overtime so i'd say around 1500,but my PC >>>>>>>>> ANY Mac anywhere around that price.

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This is an upgrade cycle for me, so only $400 for motherboard, CPU and ram.

I usually do it this way. New system... upgrade... new system.

Well my pc cost $1825 just for the case part. Custom built by me!

Specs are i7 920
EVGA X58
6gb Dominator
EVGA GTX 285 2GB
X-fi soundcard
2 hdds in raid 0
and mush more

with the accesories and the monitor and keyboard it was $2440.

13 inch macbook pro 1500 bucks

Mine's an laptop from 2006 that cost $1300 Canadian at the time...yeah it needs to be replaced with a capable desktop. Laptops have come down in prices so much since 2006. I recall I paid around average, it was not a high end machine.

mine costs $3500 AUD, just built last week
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i spent just alittle over 1700$ on my tower. That doesnt include my 3 gaming mice and 3 keyboards, monitors, table, Drafting Lamp, clipboard for mapped keys for ingame, gaming mouse pad, speakers, just about 12 headphones this year to date. Note I go threw headphones about 2-3 a month. My Next upgrade will cost me just about 800$ or so. My girls pc costed me just about 850$ after it was said and done. Now she is complaining about it being slow. So her next one will be about 500$. I try to use the old parts on a new build if I can other wise family buys them for cheap. Note will be selling my girls pc for 300$

1250 for a custom build. Started brand new, got an i7 920 in it, GTX 275, and 1 tb drive.

Let see... I have 1 dead laptop (5yrs ago), 1 dead tablet PC (3 yrs ago), 1 tablet pc (1 yr ago) - I tend to not spend more than $1000 at a time, so $500/year on laptops.

Oh yeah, got 2 EEE PC 4Gs when they first came out with SDHC cards and a few other extras - so that was about almost $1000.

I have enough parts at home for at least 5 PCs, but only 3 are up and active. I usually buy a decent all-in-one motherboard ($100-150). RAM upgrades are usually around $75 each round. (I have 8GB in a server, 8GB in a Vista machine, and 2 GB in an XP machine right now... and probably 2-4GB sitting around.) Haven't bought a dedicated sound card in quite a while, and I occasionally buy a video card for $75ish. Hard drives I rarely spend more than $100 for. CD Drives I'll spend around $40 tops, but I did spend $200 on a blu-ray burner. Cases I try to keep under $100 and usually with a power supply, but I'll occasionally drop $50 to $100 for a decent and energy efficient power supply. Go for CPUs under $100 usually, so that typically means AMD. OEM software as needed - $140 on average (which is why I am thinking about going Linux mainly + VMWare player and 1 copy of workstation... but keeping one native windows machine).

So how much do I spend on a system? I don't really know. For laptops, $500-$1000 per year sounds right for an average - but for desktops, I use the "upgrade with a couple of hundred bucks" every 3-6 months. So I really don't know how much I've invested in technology total, or even per year - a lot, but a lot less than the cooks at Denny's seem to sink into customizing their rides.

Guess I'll have to start a log of my computer expenses!

I spent enough on my computer to make my penis appear larger. I also bought some go faster stripes to stick on the side of my car and bought a three wolf and moon t-shirt to maximise my pulling power.

Not really the best QOTD since not a single comment poster will care in the slightest what other people put...

955be, 300$; 1000hx, 250$; 750GB, 500GB, 1TB wd, 1TB seagate, 400$; m32a32 240$; hsf for cpu hdds, 100$; 4890 300#; 4GB ram corsair 200$; fans etc 100$; for a total approx of 2000. yet, I was in future shop and they had a gateway with i920, 12GB ram, and 285GTX for 1650.

I buid my own PC. Its more expensive and reliable than any brand...Apple, Hp, Dell....etc. I pay premium price for high performance and reliable components.

Regardless of this discussion... Apple components/hardware are always more expensive than regular PC. Just to site an specific example apple's hardware are more expensive and behind.

In terms of cost/performance Apple will always be behind.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3603

I blew $1200-1300 on my newest box

Core i7 920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R ATX
XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB
OCZ 6GB
500GB HD 3Gb SATA 32MB cache
650W PS
Vista Home Premuim 64-bit

Phenom 720, 4GB RAM, ASUS M4A78-E, Antec 900 (got it on sale, $70), Caviar Black 640, cheap DvD burner, Sapphire HD4850 1GB, CoolerMaster V8.

~$900 CAD.

Sony Vaio (forget the model atm) $1,000 CAD.

14" Acer Extensa 2.16GHz running Ubuntu now, $399.

I built my first rig a couple of months ago since I got a $50 rebate on a GTX260 and didn't have any computers with a PCI-E slot (sad, I know, but my family doesn't buy computers unless the old ones die completely, and all of our most recent PCs had been laptops). I spent $530 after the rebate and S&H on it, although I didn't buy a hard drive since my dad had bought one on sale a few years ago that he had never opened. I don't have a ton of money, so I went relatively budget; if I had unlimited money I would have gone a lot crazier. I also don't do that much PC gaming, mostly because I've never had a gaming-quality PC before. Most of the time my computer is running Folding@home.

My rig: Pentium E6300, GTX260, 4GB DDR2 800, Gigabyte G41M-ES2L, Antec 650W PSU, Antec 300 case.

I looked at a mac. I was charged $50.

I build my computer last month, besides keyboard, mouse and dvd drive all the component were new. It costed me around $1,300.

My machine specs (new parts):
Core i7 920
GTX 275
Gigabyte X58-UD4P
OCZ Platinum 6 GB
Xigmatek Dark Knight Cooler
Antec 900 II
Corsair 650W
Samsung 24"
2 WD Black 640 GB and 1 TB

I have about 1200. e8400 cpu 850 watt psu 4 gigs mem 2 hds one is a 500gb and another 1.5 tb 2 8800 gts sli. asus pn5-d

$225 for my AMD dual core, bleeding edge Linux box, not including keyboard, mouse, and monitor! Liked it so much, I built another to run Win 7.

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That 91% figure is way off. For over a $1000 grands, most people prefer to build their own PCs.

I spent about $1200 on my recent build and will spend a couple more once Dx11 GPUs hit the market.

Of the 3 systems in my home the costs were
$650, $750, $700 not including monitors.

I just built a PC a few weeks ago for around $1,600. I also own a Lenovo t61p laptop that cost me a little over $2000 about 2 years ago.

PC:
Asus P6T
Intel i7 920
EVAG Superclocked 275 GTX
2 x 1.5 TB Barracudas
6 GB Corsair DDR3
750 Watt PSU
Blu-Ray Drive
Mid-sized NZXT Tempest
Pre-Ordered Windows 7
23" Monitor

$950 For the Tower, Custom AMD Phenom Rig
$200 for the 20 inch Widescreen Monitor