It's got 2gb RAM - works great compared to the laptop with 512mb! Ours has Windows Media Center also, but we've never used that feature. Why watch tv on the 19" monitor when we can watch it on a big screen tv?! Ours wasn't a custom built one, we got it a few months back at Best Buy for about $1400 or so, I can't remember exactly how much it was since we bought other things as well at the same time. But I know we had a bunch of nice rebates!

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