I don't work with audio right now, would probably farm that out to my son and his friends who are very much into it. Whenever I hear something like that, though, I always wonder what else on a machine sucks.

To be fair to Dell, the pro audio equipment that ND is talking about tends to be fussy about the hardware it will play nice with. The stuff your son would do, I'm guessing, will work just fine with most any machine.

Actually Dells are ass on tons of audio gear, even the cheap M-Audio stuff is bad for not working right and I've had nightmares with audio hum on the built in headphone port on Dell laptops. They go cheap on their grounding so quite often the only way to get the audio out to be quiet is to disconnect the power cord and run the laptop off batteries.

Overall I'm just not impressed with their stuff.

I defer to your expertise and stand corrected!

I also admit that I've had a longstanding dislike for Dell gear, so I may be biased.

When ND was a kid, Dell took away his candy.

It looks like the Toshiba's dual core processor is faster, anyway; 1.73 instead of 1.6. Not sure about the others yet. I got distracted looking at RAM.

Toshibas are generally pretty good. I know Drew has put a couple through their paces to good result.

When ND was a kid, Dell took away his candy.

I had a Compaq desktop that sucked so bad it pretty much put me off that brand for life. Never owned an HP desktop, but I dealt with/worked on enough that just sucked ass that I'd never buy an HP branded box again, either. Pretty much sworn off HP printers, too.

I've had more HP desktops than any other I think. I've never had too much trouble with them.

Who was looking for a Wii? I'm in Costco right now and they actually have them. Call me if you want me to pick one up. Phone is in profile.

Jessica was wii-hunting in the gaming thread.