Originally Posted by toonpornblog

An SC-420 (or whatever it's relabeled, today) is a $300 machine, with profit. If you just want something to fuck with, it's more than adequate with it's 2d only onboard video, limited RAM capacity, and SATA-150 HD.

However, if you're actually planning on doing anything with it, yeah, for some reason you usually want a machine that costs more than the OS you're going to put on it.