I think Xotic is a great choice, my sager laptop i bought from them is doing great, it just turned 3. i did have an issue with my 6990 crapping out a few months ago but it was still covered under their 3 yr extended warranty and both sager and xotic support handled it quickly and even issued an...
I've had a scansnap s1500 for a few years now, bought for around $369 on sale and absolutely love it.
i've scanned everything receipts, documents, pictures and even old card collections. scanned over 50,000 items, the scanner had an issue once and Fujitsu rma was great, took around 11 days from...
I'd say the seasonic platinum line is probably the best psu line out there, any seasonic psu is a great choice for any pc though, these units being given away look solid
roku has a lot of streaming options
playon + playlater - costs $60 one time payment lifetime subscription streams lots of channels, handful of live news, local chanels similar to hulu etc (requires pc to transcode) also playlater allows recording of all sites legally, netflix, amazon etc...