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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 2990609" data-attributes="member: 20740">PS3 will be out by Christmas (or is at least planned to be).PS3 $600 (or 500 with slightly dumbed down version)360 $400 (possibly cheaper, some expect MS to drop prices when PS3 comes out)Unless you have a particular game in mind, price is pretty much the only difference between PS3 and 360, and MS is the clear winner on that front.If you are not looking to play the latest and greatest, almost anything will do on computer.  If you are playing the latest and greatest and you want to do LAN events, think about a laptop (or, more correctly, a desktop replacement).In my experience, processor speed is not very important for games, but processor architecture is.  In other words a P4 2.8GHz will run games almost as good as a P4 3.4GHz.  Where you will see the difference is in your video card and amount (and to a certain extent, speed) of memory.Dell has plenty of bundles that include printer and printer/scanner combos and will really give you alot of choices of price range to power.  They also own the Alienware brand, but this is mostly worthless as you pay for the case of the computer as much as the internals.Unless you plan to get a laptop, in my opinion, there's not much else choice out there.  Gateway (from what I've heard) has been on a steady decline in the past few years.  They also own the E Machines brand whose main benefit is the computer will come with almost nothing on it.  Antivirus, software firewall, four different IM clients, and a few quicklaunchers can slow any machine down significantly, but especially if you don't have much memory.  E Machines also tend to be very reasonable for their price, but I've heard their choice of components is based solely on cost and not on performance.HP is a baseline brand that serves many people well, but I have personally experienced poor reliability on them (and their subsidiary Compaq).Sonys are known to have alot of nice extras, but for price, they usually don't do so well against the competition.  Reliability is somewhere between an HP and Gateway.Perhaps a bit more information would be helpful, so I know what you are looking into.</blockquote>

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