I assume for $8000 a courtesy reach around is included.

Their next machine will be called the "Remember Doom? WE REALLY LIKE DOOM 10000"

I've always wondered what the demographic is for buyers of these super high-end systems, plus how many of these are sold per year. It's gotta be people like the guy I used to work with who, back in 1995, had a 24 inch CRT monitor for his home computer so his then-3 year-old son could play games. Back in 1995, a monitor that size cost thousands of dollars. And think of the quality of games and video cards back then. This guy simply had money to blow, knew nothing about computers, but he went hog-wild nevertheless to give his son "the best".

They could just sell the case, mobo, and drive panel, and be done with it (assuming the mobo is needed to gather and send all that info to the drive panel). If you can buy the parts separately, that'd be cool. With the world economy the way it is now, I can't even see rich kids buying these complete systems.

The touch-screen is sexy, but for $8000 I better get 12GB of ram. The concierge service is just jaw dropping. We have reached a new level of ridiculously luxurious coolness.

"Phobos" as in "The Leather Goddesses of Phobos"?

Was UT the place where "Phobos" became a household name (well in the gamer community at least)?

$8k of overkill and they use 4 raptors and NO SSD's???
If im spending that much, id want 2 X-25E's in RAID0 and then as many TB's as i could fit in the case.

And who needs "expert in-home installation and six month follow up maintenace visit"? I mean if you know about the BFG and what is involved with a top notch system, you have to be missing something. I think setting it up is the second or third best part of a new system!~