content: You can just do more for the price with a PC though. Mac stuff is just too marked up for what it is to justify the cost just to get access to their software platform. For what Apple would sell a locked I5 cpu with 8 gigs of ram and no GPU you could build a unlocked I7 with twice the ram and a video card to work with. Dual booting Windows 8.1 with Linux isn't the end of the world either. There's also some crazy hackintosh builds out there that put Apple's offerings to shame.