Desktops: Best Buy's HP m7470n a good deal or not?

My my, we certainly get snitty when people have a different

opinion.

If I were reading this thread, I wouldn't take anything you said seriously after that little outburst.

And, by the way, I use my computers professionally, and have been so doing since probably before you were born. I have had HP, Dell, my own build, IBM, Packard Bell (ugh),Compaq and NEC. I have replaced motherboards, power supplies, hard drives, memories, sound cards, video cards, processors....you get the drift. I would never build my own computer again because it a serious pain in the rear to get everything to cooperate with each other and there is no tech support to call if it DOESN'T. Since I get paid between $50 and $100 an hour when I bill my services out, the cost of building a computer would run me FAR more than the nice $1200 that this set up costs assembled, too.

You might want to think before you blast someone next time. Your age and inexperience are showing.