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pparks1, I really wanted to pick that post apart too, but you pretty much covered everything. Just to add to it, I know my ten year old desktop Dell is still in use. It has a ~600MHz CPU and 256MB ram (not sure what kind exactly). I think its a piece off crap, but for the old guy that has it now its his first computer since Windows 95 came out so he loves it.
I'm not saying building your own is not a good idea if you need it for a specific purpose. But if Dell or another company lets you costimize your order and you don't know a lot about what your doing (like 90% of consumers) I don't see anything wrong with it.