if have to go with a prebuilt...
...go with HP, but I would strongly go agaist it. However, Dells and Gateway are far worse. I know three people who's HP's have failed. My friends motherboard is currently failing. And his pinter cartrige exploded and has the get the printed replaced. I lost my motherboard, video card, hard drive, and memory. And one of my teachers lost his HP. Oddly enough, we all lost them about two yeaes after they were bought. Even thought they were bought at different times. They all seemed to fail just months after the included warrantee expires forcing you to buy an extended service plan for $200 and wait 2 weeks for you to get your computer back from service. Besides, HP's customer service is often over seas and it is likely that 75% of the time you call, that you will get an Aisian, India, or Mexican customer service rep. that can barely speak or understand American and will cause you to waist at least 6 six hours of you time. And then once you are able to communicate with the customer service rep., you will be without a computer for almost a month because HP has a horrible turn-a-round time. I wish just wish that they were a better company and that I did not have to say such horrible things about them. I just will say that I will never buy HP again and spend $1100 dollars on a computer worth $800 (when I bought it) and spend so much time and money getting a computer to work so many times and find out that it did not work and waisting so much of my time on a completely worthless computer!!