Which is better HP Touchsmart 600 or 9100?

Hi everybody This is my first post here at HP, i need a little help i'm going to buy an HP Touchsmart PC, is there a big difference between 600 & 9100 and which is better Touchsmart 600 or 9100? for me 13h a day hard work! 3D games! etc
any help would be appreciated
Best regards

Put it this way:
I have a 6 year old Epson scanner that has sucessfully scanned 16,000+ photos, plus umpteen documents.
If for some reason I was faced with having to buy another scanner, Epson would be first place I would look. Canon would be second (love their printers), HP would be last.
Please don't ask me why, this is a purely subjective gut-feeling opinion!

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