Well, with additional RAID controller cards and multiple hard drives, it quickly adds up to more than what a G5 case can handle.
This does not answer my question, though. An alluminum G5 case actually has more expansion room than an average PC case. Aside from the fact that the case itself is top-tier vs. cheap cookie cutter jobs that house cheap PCs, that's because most of what would be considered "upgrades" on a PC are already built in. Firewire, digital audio, Gigabit ethernet, Wireless, Bluetooth, video, etc.
As for disk drives, when was the last time you used a 5.25" drive? I doubt you can even find any SATA drive in that format. Besides, if your desktop case is too small for all the RAID cards and disks that go with them, you don't need a bigger desktop, you need a server, regardless of whether you're running Windows, OSX or any other OS! No need to build that either - that's what X-Serves were made for on the Mac side. Taking into account all the goodies built in, they're far better and still cheaper than anything serious you could build yourself.
As for Windows, I prefer to have that in a cheap diy box. Does its job (site testing and odd file conversion) and at the same time keeps my Mac clean.
Price-wise and feature for feature, taking quality into account, Macs' prices are very comparable to PC prices. Most people tend to conveniently forget all that comes in a typical Mac box, while comparing it to the cheapest of PCs. If you don't need all of that or if you don't care for quality and design (two most common comebacks I hear), than Mac is indeed not for you. It doesn't mean they're too expensive, though, it only means you may be too cheap.
Computers are not that different from cars - never enough power and you have to walk to it each time. It also helps if it doesn't crash randomly.
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