Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
I ordered a Dell XPS 8500 last night, with an Intel i7 processor, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD. I'll probably add an additional 8GB of memory at some point, since there are two open slots.
that'll last you a while. the i7's for the most part are overpowered for today's capabilities(unless you're doing 3d modeling, tons of video coding, etc)