Why I Don't Do Dell

Point number one.  This was the best I could do, and it's not even what I wanted:

So it's three times more than the parts I bought and not what I wanted.  Hmmm.  I didn't want an operating system, which is not a choice, not obvious anyway.  And I had to pay 99 bucks to "upgrade" to XP which is bullshit; Lenovo and all the other bastards are no different on that point.  The jump from the half gig ram to 4 gigs ram was HUGE which is ridiculous, RAM ain't that expensive. 

The biggest reason I don't do DELL? That's no fun.  As much as I like to complain, I feel really good after putting in time building a machine.  I'm not a hardware guru, so it's that sense of accomplishment that I like feel after the machine is up and running.  No adware bullshit is installed on my machine(my thinkpad had quite a bit of crapware installed which was annoying).