In the UK, social status is determined by which supermarket you use. Tesco might not be the fanciest of the megamarts, but it's cheap, ubiquitous and sells everything, now including desktop PCs. For £550 ($1100) you can add the Medion 6486 to your weekly shop. It sports a not too shoddy 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gigs of RAM, a 500GB hard drive and Nvidia GeForce 8500GT graphics.
The ugly case has a total eight USB ports (2 on the front), an 8-way card reader, and gigabit ethernet. A wireless mouse, keyboard and remote are also bundled. Alternatively, you could head over to bargain basement Aldi to pick up "extremely persuasive" Medion MD 8822or go upmarket to the middle classes' favorite grocer, Sainsbury's, for some AMD notebook action.
If you're looking for Apple products, though, you're out of luck. Unless you head over to the fruit section.
Product page [Medion via the Reg]
