If you are planning to upgrade your best bet is to hold on until it comes installed with Win7 which is one more month. Reinstalling OS is not the hard part but reinstalling all the other programs will take a while. And than it all adds up.

Good thing you don't need to reinstall WoW as it just recreate the registry in Windows when you boot up the .exe while most programs will be unable to work.

Actually I did go through LYP's pricelist and do a direct comparison with Dell's XPS 9000 Customization. I found out that Dell's PC is ~RM400 more expensive. The catch here though is to go steady on the RAM, video card, HDD etc because this is where Dell's leeching you

But as far as Dell Inspiron desktop is concern, their deal is unbeatable vs self built if you are willing to settle for a previous best processor.

No, what I was saying is the more generous you are in the configurations the more non value for money the "upmark" is. Lets take the additional HDD as an example. 1TB sells for RM 1,285 from Dell where else LYP sells for RM 285 only. If the RM 1k warranty includes transferring of unreadable data to the replacement HDD than it will be nice but most of the time it is just on the spot replacements.

Ok, I can see your point. It took me quite a while to install my 2nd HDD earlier. I would have save a lot of time had I went to the Bios immediately instead of continuously checking the cabling which I was already damn sure it could not be anymore secured as that. It never occurred to me until late

It is always hard taking the first step but until then paying more is still the better option. The only good news is that the upgrade path like optical disk drive, HDD, RAM and video card is mostly reliable. My video card overheats and artifacts mainly because of dust choking the air vents but I can view it as a blessing though cause I can't find enough reasons to upgrade when it is still working.