thanks timsdd for your reply aszo i agree with seolinker but i would like to add one more thing budget is secondary, the first thing is- what's the purpose? thats the thing which will decide the config you should go for.. i mean if you gona play games on your lapi or going to do some editing work and something like that you need high end machines and visevarsa the other thing i would like to tell you is what i personally believe i dont think its viable to spend too much money on lapi the best thing is to get the latest desktop and an average config lapi this will be the best way to satisfy your cost & benifit analysis thats what i think gaurav