Although they are very substandard, dells make excellent second PCs or servers. I spent $150 on my sever, plus donated parts, and it is very weak (800mhz duron, 128mb shared, 5gb and 4gb), when around $300 I could have purchased a dell and gotten soemthing at least twice as fast, nearly silent, with more thna 4 times the Hd space, a monitor, speakers, and a license for winXP. Would I want one as my main machine? Hell (lol no pun intended) no, but they do have a purpose.