Bought a Dell about 6 months ago. P4 3.4 ghz. HT technology. 160 gb Hard Drive. 128 PCI Express Graphcis card. 2 GIG Ram 533
LOVE MY MACHINE. Many people suggest using Macs for editing etc. But this machine works awesome. Great preview times, render times, etc. I dont have any problems.
Maybe you dont like dell, but get something with those specs.
The machine came in around 1300.00 tax included