One thing you can do, when choosing to buy anything, is to engage in a little research. Not always easy, but with a computer you are going to spend a lot of money and making a choice that could be key to your next 3 years of computing experiences...or computer frustration!
PC Magazine runs an Annual Reader Service Survey which is one of the biggest, if not the biggest test of what is good and what is bad across computers, printers and other peripherals. You could buy the magazine, but they publish it free of charge - so why not make use of it.
PC Magazine survey thousands of PC Magazine readers who told us about their thousands of notebooks, desktops, and printers, and the companies that made and supported them. What they revealed about these products and companies will surprise you. Don't buy another printer or PC before reading the results of this survey.
url, by the way -
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,1626131,00.asp
......or click here
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