I've had good luck and bad luck with all brands of computers... except macs, I've never been brave enough to dive in to the macs.

I just bought another Dell *ducks*. But it has a 4 year warranty, so I figure it'll be obsolete before the warranty runs out.

My daughter has an IBM, she's pretty happy with that. Boys all have emachines, both laptops and desktops (they're Gateways, but I didn't know that at the time) and we really haven't had a problem with them.

My absolute favorite thing about Dells is that you can wipe them clean to factory settings in minutes. I don't know why I like that but I do. You get all of that crap on your computer over time, and I put all my valuable information on a jump drive and wipe it clean and start all over again. Love it love it love it. But their customer service isn't the greatest.