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As for hard drive, optical drives, and expansion slots, the Mac Pro and all generations of Pro-model Macs (Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G3, all previous PCI Power Macs) are just as upgradeable and expandable as their PC counterparts. ....costing just as much as a brand-spankin'-new x86 processor or equal capability. So your reasoning is rather flawed when it comes to the Mac Pro and previous generations of the Macintosh towers.
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Maybe there is a misunderstanding in my wording... but I am not saying that Mac Pro are NOT upgradable, I have seen videos of how it worked and I like how everything is putted together, like how the hard drives, ram, and optical drives just slots in, it is really an awesome design!!
However, when I visit the web site, I tried the configuration thing, despite the 100'000 something possible thing, it doesn't let me choose to have no hard drives, let alone motherboard/cpu.
The other thing is that I never have even slightly thought of buying a desktop from Dell, HP, etc... their design doesn't seem anything special... but Mac Pro has certainly caught my attention into start thinking about it.
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And if by chance yuo ghappen to come across an OEM motherboard from someone like MSI or Asus, you're bound to only get one from that particular manufacturer and hope that it fits the dimensions of your computer. And even the CPU is a gamble sometimes, unless you know who manufactures that motherboard and then it's a matter of finding out what CPU is supported by it. This is not considering how voided your warranty would be if you did this.
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I don't really know what you are talking about here... I have always been able to just get a new motherboard and it just fits my case, I guess I got one of those generic case? I don't know why CPU is a gamble? I mean, don't you know what CPU your motherboard supports?
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And not to mention all the third-party CPU upgrades there are for these systems,
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Umm... what do you mean by this? A new CPU or???