And PC's come with 3gb standard... but thats not the issue.
That "extra gig" on the options list costs you quite a bit of money. Currently my PC has 2 gigs of ram, but it wasn't always like that. I bought (or more appropriatly, built) my PC with a Patriot 2x512MB CAS5 DDR-667 set of RAM. Cost me about 90 dollars what, 2 years ago. DDR2 ram prices were still pretty high up there so I opted for the 1 gig set. About just under a year later, I decided to throw another gig in there, so I ditched my Patriots and went with a Crucial Ballistix CAS4 DDR2-800 2x1GB set of RAM. Bought it for 90 dollars also. So essentially I doubled my RAM for 2x the price. But that really isn't fair towards this arguement. Nowadays I can buy a new 2 gig set of DDR2 RAM at around 25 dollars. Or I can get a 4 gig set for well, 100% more than that, oh, a whopping gargantuan 55 dollars (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220335)
But wait, how much would it cost me to upgrade my RAM on a mac? Well, thats a trick question, you don't. You buy a new mac. Okay, well lets set this up a different way. How much more would it cost me to buy a Mac Pro with 4 gigs as compared to a Mac Pro with 2? 500 dollars. Thats a far cry from the 30 dollar markup on a standard PC. Like... thats 20 times more.....
But that really isn't the kicker. 8800GT costs about 80 dollars now, but in a Mac prepare to shove another 150 into the "upgrade" option. God forbid I want to throw something a little med-high end, like lets say 2xATI hd4850's in crossfire. Oh wait, I can't do that. I forgot, can't game on a Mac... High end card is a measly 8800gt, while it was a nice med-end card a year ago, it can't hold its own to even a 140 dollar HD4850. Nowadays.
Of course, then theres just the outright ABSURD markups. +100 dollars for another 16x DVDRW drive, +600 for a glossy 20" monitor, MAC OSX (server) 1000 dollars, (hey, linux is free....).
Now all of these markups are based already off of a 2,800 dollar pricetag! I can build a skulltrail PC with 4 gigs, and TRIPLE GTX280 SLI and two quadcore processors for that price. What does the mac pro give you instead of the PC? An OS that limitates you in the programs you can use, and an apple logo on a pasty white case.
You cannot tell me a mac is nicer...
That does not compare to this...
Watercooled skulltrail system with SLI'd topend cards, 4 gigs of ram and 8 cores versus a mac pro with 8 cores, 2 gigs of RAM and a dinky super low end ATI 2600pro (aka a 7600gt, a med end card 2 years ago, now a low end 40 dollar card)