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Dinker225 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1049 posts, RR: 20
Posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 551 times:

Has anyone here experienced the use of a Compaq Laptop Computer? How's the battery life compared to say an HP or DELL? Are they relliable or do they crash alot, hang up? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Dinker

Two rules in aviation, don't hit anything and don't run out of gas, cause if you run out of gas yer gonna hit something.

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174thfwff From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 548 times:

http://www.winbook.com

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

http://www.apple.com/ibook/

Those are what I would look at first before I went to Dell, Compaq, Sony, Toshabia.

-174thfwff

Mbmbos From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2561 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 536 times:

Compaq laptops do not fare well in PC Magazine's annual buyer's survey, which includes categories such as DOA (dead on arrival), reliability, and customer support from the company.

Dell, IBM and Macintosh consistently do well in the laptop category. Gateway, Toshiba and Hewlett Packard complete the second tier of performers. Compaq and Winbooks are low on the chart of performers.

VirginLover From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 958 posts, RR: 16
Reply 3, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 534 times:

Mine crashed... a LOT. There was one point where they forgot to install something at the factory, it wiped out everything I had on the computer. Then I got a Dell, and everything's been working out well.

Brianhames From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 795 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 529 times:

Every Compaq laptop I have delt with is junk. My friend has had to send his into the factory two times in the year that he's had it. And I had to totally reformat my grandparents Compaq. Compaqs are junk, get a Gateway.

Flyf15 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 528 times:

I have a Compaq Presario 1500 Laptop (typing on it right now). Contrary to everything thats been said before, its great. Never any problems, people always helpful with questions, runs great, good battery life. Maybe the takeover by HP has changed things?

Definately do NOT get a laptop with shared video memory. Every person I know who has that and tries to multitask or do graphics intensive things experiences a nightmare. My dad works with a guy who designed some of the shared video memory systems at Intel and he said he would not even buy it.

174thfwff From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 527 times:

wow, my dads winbook is AMAZING!

Don't believe everything you hear.

-174thfwff

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