I want to give you an advice about buying a guitar. Go and try before you buy, cause it can actually be some significant difference even between guitars that are supposed to be the same. Don't focus too much on the brand, and the look, focus on how you feel when you play it. I've played alot of cheap guitars that have been excellent (and then soundwise you can always modify it, have a new pickup mounted etc..) if it feels good to play on, and if it tunes well, and have a reasonable sustain you are home free no matter what the brand is.

Personally I would recomend to go for some of the cheaper guitars, cause you might now know yet what you really want, and it is way to easy to spend way too much money on a guitar that you thought was all that, and then it turns out you accuire a taste for something completely different (has happened to me a few times during the years)

It takes some time for a guitar to grow into a good instrument in my oppinion, it has to get used to your playstyle, hands and grip and environment .. thats why many of the guitarheroes play their old half worn out guitar in spite of the fact that they own sometimes hundreds of guitars .. but they keep going back to the " good ol favorite"

Most of them are pretty adjustable as well so if you tinker around with it, you will get it to where you like it .... and if you don't know how to fiddle around with the hardware setup there are alots of resources on the net and usually on your local musicstore as well.

okie dokie ..
(don't know if this helped at all ,,, hehehe)
but you have a good one
//Ken1 :)