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I'm just curious to what you guys think is the best desktop company.

King

I voted me.  But Dell's great!  Can't go wrong with them.

I like home builds but lately I haven't had the time so I've gone Dell. Haven't had any issues with them.

I picked myself as well, as I like building my Own PC's. Dells are ok as well.

Dell's are known for being reliable. We use both HP and Dell's at work and it's really a coin-toss on which on is better. I personally prefer Dell's for work stuff.

Gaming-wise my XPS 600 has served me well for over 2 years. I just threw in a new 8800GT to upgrade the 6800 it came with. All games (well, except WoW) fly on it now. I've tweaked WoW enough so I have setting almost maxed and get a solid 60 fps.

My only minor gripe is one of the fans in the case grinds a little bit when it CPU usage goes up. Overall though, it is a solid machine. My wife is running an older P4 Dimension 4500 that she's had since she started university, it's a good 5 years old now and after a RAM upgrade (she bought it with 128 megs!) it works great for everything she uses it for. I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop for some mobile WoW and work when I have to travel. Again, no major issues with it.

I have a "media center" machine I home-built sitting behind my TV plugged in via VGA and it's running strong as well.

I bought a Dell dektop for my dad, the one he got wasn't booting properly and when it did it was unstable. After about an hour on the phone with tech support pulling ram, etc they RMA'd it and sent him a new one within 2 days.

So overall I can't complain about Dell.

I currently own a Sony VAIO and even though it cost me a little more it's the best PC I have ever owned. I would definitely buy another one.

Kevin

I guess I'm still biased against Dell after the run of bad luck we had with them.  Meh, always a decision. 

Hopefully my laptop gets fixed, I'm low on $$ as it is and cannot afford anything this expensive.  Life....sheesh.

King