I bought this custom built machine for £850 and in the 4yrs I've owned it,I've had to replace 2 failed hard drives as the shop I bought from told me a complicatedly long story about how low level formatting the dead drives would revive them.I instead just posted them back to Maxtor who gave me replacements.I also spent £500 on an all singing/dancing laptop that had a better spec than the previous desktop,at the same time as buying the custom build.The laptop croaked a few weeks after purchase so was replaced,only to progressively develop a fault over the next few years.I took it to be serviced and asked about the fault & was told it's a design flaw with the motherboard so I tried to get the shop I bought from to remedy this by replacing the whole machine.They refused so I contacted head office via email & received a nice reply asking for me to stump up £50 for it to return to their workshops to be fixed.As I've been told that fixing it would be a waste of money due to the design flaw,I won't pay £50 for its return I will only agree to have a totally different machine in its place.If they refuse to replace it,I could take the matter to small claims court but I won't bother,I'll just buy a new laptop which will probably work out cheaper than fighting them in court as prices have dropped considerably.

Average is 500 I suppose. I have a MacBook Pro which is a little over 1000 dollars. I had three laptops before that in which all had problems after the few months of using them.

Small form factor..built by myself inspired by the WWW,probably about a grand.Small is cute ...i think.

Like Bingalau, my Evesham machines (Laptop and Desktop) will probably see me out.

Unless of course, one of my children takes pity on their aged parent.

Maybe £900. My Dan with a 2.5 Gig HD cost £4000 in 1987 (plus Jazz cassettes at £60 per Gig), my 350 Gig Evesham about £1000 in 2008 so prices going down nicely.

I've clicked under £400 but not sure if a fair answer. My next PC will be 'bits of' rather than the whole lot.

Less than I spent on this one. Every time I by a computer I find I get more for less. (says he who has only had 3 PC's since Win 3.1)

About half as much as my last one.