I am getting frustrated, trying to buy a pre-built from Dell for work. I was willing to pay more for it, since time is scarce, and because there are no trialware programs loaded. It can take me longer to remove that junk than to build from scratch. At least, with XP that was the case. Plus, I figured buying a pre-built now would get me a free upgrade to 7 later.
Now the Dell process will not allow me to order a PC without a monitor. I am swimming in small monitors. I'll be buying a widescreen for this PC, but not one of the ones Dell offers. Getting very frustrated, and am tempted to go back to building my own. And there appears to be no way to build one with RAID built in. I've never built one from scratch with RAID; my current work PC was ordered that way from a local guy I trusted, who had low prices. Too low, as it turns out. Getting hard to find a small shop these days, even harder one you would trust and count on being around for a year or more.