There's a suggestion (marked 'funny') of a MacPro. I confess that last week I window-shopped, at the Apple store, an 8-core Xeon with 16GB RAM for about 3500 eu

There's a suggestion (marked 'funny') of a MacPro. I confess that last week I window-shopped, at the Apple store, an 8-core Xeon with 16GB RAM for about 3500 euros (single HD). However, a whitebox PhenomII 940 quadcore with 8GB ECC RAM will run under 600 euros. That's probably about half the muscle, good enough to start (and cover a lot of road ...). Toss in a 600 euro MacMini if/when MacOS is wanted.