Accessories
The key to making your great new computer usable is all in the accessories. Most new computers sold today have low quality LCD monitors, speakers, wired keyboards, and wired mice. The big computer sellers don't even mention the fact that one of the most important components you should get with your new PC is a Uninterruptable Power Supply. The fact that the electrical grid in Minnesota, causes a lot of brown-outs and power surges, wreaks havoc on your hard drives and motherboards doesn't seem to bother most computer sellers. Having a UPS Backup system is a necessity for any new PC. We have found many great suppliers of accessories but the following ones have the best warranties and service that we've seen.
LCD Monitors have become large enough with low enough prices to make CRT monitors obsolete. Through the years we have used many LCD manufacturers and I have found two that have survived the dot com bust and price wars. Acer and Viewsonic offer large, attractive, inexpensive monitors with great 3 year warrantee's.
When it comes to speakers, wireless desktops, wireless keyboards, wireless mice, remote controls, notebook accessories, gaming, and web cams Logitech's 3 to 5 year warranties and American tech support are the best we've seen.
The UPS power supplies that we mentioned earlier are important enough that only one manufacturer has earned our business. American Power Conversion is the big boy in the back up power business, don't think of using anything else.