I've had three PC's first was a no name manufactued AMD K6 200Mhz 32MB memory. Second was a Compaq AMD K6 555Mhz 64MB memory[bought in a rush] And my latest is a self build AMD XP 2000+ 512MB memory, love it.
The concensus at this stage of the poll, would appear to be that the personal punter buy definately on price.
Look out for further polls, on operating systems, and on sourcing your PC. Well it's the age of information technology, and I cannot help collating data