Wow, I didn't think anyone paid $2500 for a PC any more :)
You can get a 3GHz PC with a gigabyte of RAM and a Radeon 9800 for $1000 or so. You could pay a few hundred extra and go with a super-high end card just to future proof yourself (though with over 50% of all new PCs being notebooks, it's tough to bank on your target audience having video cards like that). You could jump to 2GB of RAM. But I'm having a hard time figuring out how to spend $2500 unless you're willing to pay $1000+ just for a brand new processor that's 10% faster or an Apple cinematic display :)
You can get a 3GHz PC with a gigabyte of RAM and a Radeon 9800 for $1000 or so. You could pay a few hundred extra and go with a super-high end card just to future proof yourself (though with over 50% of all new PCs being notebooks, it's tough to bank on your target audience having video cards like that). You could jump to 2GB of RAM. But I'm having a hard time figuring out how to spend $2500 unless you're willing to pay $1000+ just for a brand new processor that's 10% faster or an Apple cinematic display :)