it's all about what you want to spend and what you need it for, i have built and owned tons of computers. if you have the dough 3 grand can build one kick a$$ dual proccessor machine, like 2 3ghz p4, 1gig ram, 120 gig hd, 533 frontside bus, liquid cooled, HOT! or 2 grand can get you a 2.4 ghz, 1gig ram, 40gig hd dell laptop, but for 500 (no monitor) you can get a 2 ghz AMD, 512 ram, 80gig hd a machine that will make most gamers happy
NEVER BUY HP i hate them get a dell if you don't want to build your own but it's really easy to build your own.
also i am a computer science major at the Air Force Academy so if you need help building your computer shoot me an email.(don't ask me about viruses cuz i don't get them and if i did i would just reformat my HD) i will build computers too for the right price

or if you tell me what you want i can go online and find everything for you and give you an excel sheet with all the parts you need to buy.
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So let me get this strait your honda has 1.6 liters, whereas my bottle of Mountian Dew has 2???

ummmmmm hubcaps
Ok I have 10K!!!!! Does someone have a Pearl White 5spd, leather, SE 97-98 240sx for me. Or any s14.5's.