Originally posted by bananaman
First of all, who'd you buy it from? The i5 is about $219, RAM is probably $40 - $60, SSD is maybe $115, then the Mobo is either $80 - $90, or $130 - $150, and Windows is about $100. So it's about a $600 build on the lower end, and about $750 on the higher end. Not a bad build my brotha.
I bought it from a European site, the mobo was 90euro so I assume thats around 120$.
As for a harddrive, they are too expensive at the moment, and I'm very happy with 10second boot up time
And I pirated Windows, wasn't going wasting my money on that.