The best box that Apple makes is the Mac Pro. The best box that Dell makes is the Precision Workstation, commonly abbreviated as PW. Both are business machines first and foremost. It is very easy to configure either to run you $20,000 for final cost. How to do it? Simple. Check off every single possible option you can throw in when configuring it. First, the Mac...

At the present time you have 3 choices for affordable (keyword there) multi-core processors, that being dual-core, triple-core and quad-core. If you’re going Intel you can do duals and quads. With AMD you have duals, triples and quads. No matter what brand you go with, multi-core (sometimes known as many-core) is the way to go. They run circles around...