In Norway the cheapest version (128 MB RAM) went for around NOK 17.000,- (spring 2002). I have then added RAM so it now consists of a total of 768 MB. This is standard PC133 SDRAM, which is bought cheaper elsewhere (beware that it has to be ECC, though!). Additionally I have put an extra IDE drive into the case - which has room for two drives internally. The default included drive is probably the weakest point of the machine, since it is a very slow Seagate. Adding a fast number two, and using that one for compilations, swap etc. is a good investment. Autumn 2003 I swapped the original 15GB disk for a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB disk which is much faster - and also less noisy.
Another irritating missing link, is the descision to not connect the soundcard and CD-player internally. This means one has to either connect the player with the soundcard using an external cable, or play music from a CD as data using software (and thereby wasting CPU-cycles).
Otherwise though, this is a nice machine indeed.