Matsushida (Panasonic) media drives (The A106 all media DVD burner rocks)

Intel has seemed to have a smidgen of the upper hand as of late in gaming...

WD Special Edition Hard drives rock, and get them in SATA

Shoot for a 2.5Ghz or faster proc, IMO

ATI seems to have shaped up their video card offerings, and their all in wonder systems are rather functional...

And I haven't been staying up to date on PC cases, so I can't really comment...