Alienware for Graphic Design?

Any graphic designers using alienware here? ANyways I really need a new pc ritenow been saving up for Mac pro but it feels like forever. Anways im thinking of getting alienware for $3,600 yes twice as my mac which is $6k plus which includes 23 inch monitor. heres the spec that i configure for alienware

2.6ghz duo with 4GB of ram
3x 500 hard drive ( 1 for scratchdisk, 1 for storage)
nvidia 8800 gts
24 inch monitor

by the way im only going to run Photoshop CS, Illustrator, Indesign. Most of the time im designing bilboards which is about 29x15 inches on 300 dpi. and some brochures. Anyays will these specs do its job? Also i love playing BF2 :D

Answers:
The chip seems small. Even tho it's duo, doesn't necessarily mean that the Adobe software will take advantage of both chips at the same time.

You could spend half of the 3600 and still buy you plenty to run Photoshop and play BF 2 with room to spare. 3600 will buy you two nice computers that will do all of the above.

Alienware rocks but in alot of cases it's like buying a helicopter when you only need a ladder.
Alienware machines are known as being excellent gaming machines and what else uses graphics as much as games do? Yes, and Alienware machine would probably serve you quite well.

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