I helped a friend order a new Dell that we set up and got running a couple of weeks ago. The process started with moving out a lot of long-dead equipment (two - count them! two old towers AND an old monster CRT monitor tucked back into the kneehole of his desk and hutch!). Paper towels and windex and get the area cleared before setting up new. He thought he could use his old monitor (I think it was DVI) but it was really really old and wouldn't have connected to the new CPU, and it takes about 10 seconds to look at the new beautiful 27" monitor after the 21" square one and he was hooked. I'd been over a couple of times to fix things on the old computer (a Frankenstein setup that a friend and he shopped at the old and much lamented Fry's Electronics and built ages ago) and after restoring the LAN after the ethernet port died and working on the sound after the sound card died, had suggested that there weren't many more things I'd be able to fix with USB adapters.

HDMI was my plan for setting up the monitor, but it also came with a Display Port. Monitor connectors. Neither of us does the kind of computer work that demands the super high bandwidth.

I moved some computer stuff yesterday here and did a little cable management while I was at it. (And I see from here that my flatbed scanner still needs to be replugged.) My reorganization involved a vacuum cleaner at one point. ;-)