If I am going to buy a computer from a "name brand," (which will only be laptops), I will only buy a Dell XPS. They are slightly more expensive than the standard systems, but the XPS support blows everything else that I've seen out of the water. Almost no time on hold on the phone, and when my battery on my notebook went dead after 8 months, they shipped a new one to me for free. With same day air. Dell's standard systems have little better support than anywhere else though.

Of course, for any desktop system, I'll be building it myself and not dealing with the computer companies.

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