Posted 08/04/2008 at 07:09:14pm

I enjoyed the Dream Machine article, but I just don't get the $5K chrome job.  I suppose MPC could have commissioned a famous artist to hand-paint the case for $1 million, would add exactly the same amount of performance. Might as well add on another $1million remodeling of the home office since this is where the dream machine will sit.  

With an unlimited budget, I wonder why some SSDs  weren't considered for boo drive- perhaps not ready for primetime, but they have bee available for some time- wasn't even discussed as an option that was opted out of due to stability, didn't fit into the case, whatever.   

There are other silly/cool gaming gadgets that would be better use of the $5K in terms of bragging rights that a "work-of-art" case:

 - Art. Lebedev Studio Optimus Maximus ($1600 custom OLED keyboard - rediculous, but nifty)

- Killer M1 NIC ($280, maybe gets a few ms response time faster in online games)

- CH Products HOTAS flight controller ($300 joystick/throttle for flight sim fans- could probably find even more expensive ones if you know where to look)

- how about adding in the cost of the top 10 games (from any of the many articles in PC Gamer & other places) of all time pre-installed?

-a custom/psychopathic liquid nitrogen cooling kits to break world records in benchmarking scores for months to come?

 etc etc- there are lots of ways to get real gamer "oooh-ahhh" factor vice the parrot-like fascination with a shiny object. 

 (end rant.)