originally i had a guy build it. It has changed a lot since then and due to $$$$$ I have had to learn how to build it up or down or sideways.
This guy was recommended to me but he knows nothing of the deepest darkest secrets of MIDI or 3D. I said I wanted a good sound card and so he stuck a low level sound blaster in it. stuff like that. The graphics card was a joke and on and on.., recently I added RAM and ROM and had learn to do it because I ran out of money buying the parts, ect. I took it to him and when he installed the ATI card he didn't let the computer find the AVG adaptors first and so i was going backward and forward to his house until i ran out of money. That's when I had to read up about it and did it my self. Since then I do it myself. No doubt one of the reasons i get so many blue screens. I dont even care about them anymore, if a driver is incompatible, well, I just live with it and so does this computer.
I have a laptop that is crystal clear, I had Maya on it but took it off. i use it with photo shop and a wacom tablet. I use it to write scripts and do uni stuff and office stuff on it. It was just released about a month ago so should be good for a couple of years. It has a lot of bells and whistles, finger print ID, wireless e-mail, ect.
take it easy and life will be easy