Wanted to thank everyone for the help. I've got my new machine ordered, the monitor just arrived and all I have left to do is order a huey.

I ended up going with an hp & the HP LP2475w Widescreen LCD.

• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-950 processor [3.00GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]
• 12GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [6 DIMMs]
• 2TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s - two 1TB hard drives
• 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]
• Blu-ray writer & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner
• Blu-ray ROM (player)
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

Thanks again. I love this forum and all of the great people here who are so forth coming with advice and help.