My vote on Dell. They last forever, my brother still has a Dell desktop from like a million years ago. All of us have Dell laptops and they're great, I can even run photoshop on the laptop. What's great about Dell is that you customize it while on the site, so if you want more of such and such you just add it on. If you're getting a Dell I'd definitely get an NVIDIA graphics card, I know the default for laptops isn't NVIDIA and it's really worth it.
Can't talk authoritatively about their laptops, but don't take Acer desktops off your radar -- the Visa may suck, but I picked up an Aspire back in January. Dunno what model it was exactly, but it came with 4 gigs of RAM and an Athlon x4 processor. Slapped in a Geforce 8600 I had "lying around" (by which I mean I bought it on sale a year and a half ago without realizing my old box didn't have PCI-E slots) and it runs like a beaut. On top of that, it was a package deal, so they threw in an LCD widescreen! Awesome.Dell makes a decent machine as well, but the ones I saw looked like they'd need more customizing to do what I wanted -- aside from my graphics card, I would've been looking at a new sound card to take advantage of my booster speaker. Alienware is more for the psycho-hardcore-ubergamer set; you're paying extra for the ability to run CounterStrike without suffering framerate drop when someone sets off a flashbang. If that sentence made no sense to you then don't get Alienware. ;D
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