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[Japo]

I just bought a Dell too and found it very competitive price-wise. I compared with other possibilities, including building a computer from components, but getting the same machine that way was much more expensive actually, at least with high-end components. If I had wanted just something to browse the web, read email and write documents I might have chosen different, there are great deals in shops for low-powered machines, any manufacturer can make that and there's much competition.

Originally Posted by AlumiuN

Be ready to have your eardrums blown out by the jet engine cooling.

Yeah my father's Dell is noisy as Hell; but it's a Dimension 5150C, a Pentium D enclosed in a tiny case, very difficult ventilation (and lousy mechanical design). However my new XPS is all but silent--it's huge though.