Quote - Build your own dear.  It's easier in the long run.  As long as you have your own copy of XP Home or Pro your all set.  I've built my last 3 and what SEEMS like an impossibility was NOT.  Read the instructions on all the manuals, check our various sites like the one above.

RAMwolf is right. Build your own is the way to go when getting a new PC. Acadia, you ought to make a complaint to your state attny general or the BBB. Companies like Dell get away with doing crap like that to people because no one ever makes a complaint about them.

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