Where to Buy Mac Pro?

Hello Folks,
Any recommendations on the best place to buy a new Mac Pro, the Apple Store, online, LA Computers, MacConnection, Amazon and would you recommend the purhcase of Apple Care?
Many thanks for your help.
Jim

would you also recommend that I buy the least amount of ram from Apple and then buy from Crucial or the like?
If you intend to immediately buy 3rd party RAM then yes. Apart from the convenience of buying it preinstalled there isn't any really compelling reason to buy it from Apple. There was a time that 3rd party RAM was either not available nor cheaper than RAM from Apple so many of us bought Apple but that has long past (Ned having been one of the s*ckers that had to pay through the nose for his).
In addition have you also heard that there have been some problem issues with boot camp 1.3 and running XP?
I have although I couldn't give any specifics. Mostly it's regarding Parallels users having a dummy spit at it not working right. You might want to look in the Boot Camp for better details on this. The MacFixIt web site…
http://www.macfixit.com/
… is really helpful too. I've personally not got around to installing version 1.3.

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