I've got to that age where as long as it works, reliably and consistently I'm happy.

The Dell workstations we have were top of the line when we got them 6 years ago and are still good machines, if a little low on local storage, but we shouldn't be using this anyway, as everything we do should be stored on the network where it can be backed up.

I don't want multiple monitors, but a bigger one is always nice at work I have a 21" monitor and a 23" one at home.

I use to spec and build my own machines, but these days I have better things to do than read up on the latest and greatest, reliability and longevity are more important to me now, so I went into a high street retailer for my last machine and got their top of the range desktop. Unless the next version of Visual Studio or Open Office requires a ridiculously powerful machine, I should be fine until about 2020.