Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-9887604-20130612172453/@comment-7153552-20130613171659

Ever since Alienware got bought by Dell they're just really expensive XPS machines, if you're going to go that route just get an XPS. I used to have one and loved it. Now I did just recently drop $2200 on a custom built gaming PC. I know that might sound like a lot, but I won't have to upgrade any of the components for years, and the first thing I'll probably absolutely have to upgrade will be the graphics card. Even then I can get a mid-range for the time as long it's an upgrade and be fine, but we're not talking another 8-10 years at the rate games have been progressing lately.

Lenovo usually gets you the best bang for your buck on computers, and they make a great product. Don't buy into the Mac craze, they're nice machines but nobody makes product for them, hardly. ESO will have a Mac client, but most games out right now (Neverwinter to name a recent MMO) do not. I got mine from ibuypower; good company, good products, good service. I have owned many brands and I can tell you this, so long as you know the product (specs) and what it's really worth, you can get just about any company to make it for you. That brand name on the front is what gets you most of the time (I'm looking at you Sony Vaio). I know a lot of people that have bought Acer gaming laptops in the past couple of years and are very happy with them. It's a choice, it's an investment, but you can do a lot with the money on a PC. Mine has four outputs, 5.2 surround sound ability, 2TB of hard drive space, a 120GB SSD for my OS and games I need to load faster, 32GB RAM DDR3, I opted to not go SLI, but I could have easily, and I my media drive is DVD +/- RW and reads Blue Ray. All that and then some for $2200, not a horrible cost. I won't need 32gigs of RAM for ten years, lol.