Advice. What brand desktop?

OneOfMany said
Instead of buying a "brand" box, go to a local place, talk with someone who you are comfortable with, and they will build you a system using quality brandname interals, based on your needs. The price will be the same, the component quality usually better. As well, you'll get an actual oem disc for your Windows OS. You'll avoid many headaches, and get a lot more life out of it. Having said that, avoid the local places that build cheap crap.. like anything, it will come back to haunt you.

Grant

X2 I worked for a custom built shop for 10 years and wouldn't do it any other way. As a side note: We (my employer) have a brand new Imac 27" I3 and I installed an extra 4 gigs to bring it to 8 gigs, this is for a printing company, this pc is NOT 1 year old yet (new September 2010) and we have had to replace the hard drive AND the dvd drive, the glass on the montor HAS TO COME OFF TO WORK ON THESE THINGS. if you buy a MAC good LUCK, make sure you pay $179.99 for the extended warrantee.