By George Ou at ZDNet:

Merry Christmas everyone!  I'm off for the week but I thought I'd bring you something special for the holidays.  One of the more common questions I get from friends and readers is "what kind of PC should I get".  My personal preference has always been to build my own PC.  If building a PC is not your cup of tea, I still recommend a custom PC where you select the parts and pay someone a small fee to assemble it because you still get a much better PC for your money.  If you don't know what parts to select, that's where this article comes in handy where I tell you what parts to pick and why I picked them.  Note that I didn't include the monitor, keyboard, and mouse in the configurations because those are very personalized items but I will cover it at the end of the article.

Take a look at George Ou's component selections here.

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