cheap dual-boot desktop recommendations?

["Seth Gordon" <user=116@nabble.blu.org>]

 I'm looking for a new desktop machine for my wife and I to use.  While 
we use Windows as little as possible, we do have a few things that won't 
run anywhere else, so we need something that we can dual-boot into 
Windows[*].  The most CPU-intensive stuff we're likely to be doing is 
running OpenOffice and editing YouTube-length videos of our kids.  The 
less we have to spend, the better. 

My employer has a corporate-discount deal with Dell, but for the 
machines cheap enough for me to consider buying, the member discount is 
only about 3%. 

What models should I be looking at?  What should I avoid? 

[*]I would rather have Windows running inside a Xen or QEMU virtual 
machine within Linux, but I think that would cost too much. 

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