Help me choose a new PC

[GonzoStyle]

I spoke to the guy who my boss reccomended to build my PC.

When I told him I had 64mb of Ram, he laughed at me for a solid 30 seconds.

But anyway, he's basically charging me pretty much the same as far as money wise. But with a few upgrades and some extras. Plus the fact that I can call him anytime if I have issues since he lives 2 mins from me.

The only thing is he said he didnt reccomend an AMD, he said I should go with an Intel processor. He said AMD is good if I wanted a gaming system, which I don't cause I don't play games ever on the comp. I just have heard conflicting shit on AMD and on Intel, some say AMD is the best and others say it sucks unless you play games.

So is he correct?

Also he said to go with Windows XP Professional Edition.

But anyway all in all he said it'd be about 800 bucks, thats with a 260GB HD, 2GB of RAM and all the other good shit like the dvd, norton corporate edition so I dont have to worry about paying for upgrades, plus all the trimmings and tech support.

sound like a decent deal? I figure it is since i'd end up paying close to that if you factor in tax, then factor in if I buy a 2 year tech support/warantee plan thats an extra 150-200 bucks so i'd be spending closer to a grand on the other machine. Plus he is so fuckin weird and frightening, that he has to build a good PC cause he obviously never leaves the house.

I mean he said he could build me a decent office comp like the ones we have for like 300, with 512 memory, smaller HD.

But i'd rather just lay out the extra cash now and have a decent PC.