Yup. Compaq falls under the HP umbrella. They're made the same crappy way lol. Both owned by HP.
Funny thing is commercial grade HP computers are awesome. They are up there in quality and life. I don't know why their retail side sucks so much.

 

Toshiba/Asus laptops have the lowest failure rate. HP is at the top

http://gizmodo.com/5406415/laptop-re...ome-out-on-top

 

Compaq is Hp discount brand

Dell makes two good things: monitors and laptops

Hp makes great workstations, I haven't had any experience with there laptops

Toshiba, my friend loves his notebook

Asus makes great motherboards and video cards, I'm not too sure on everything else

Gateway is pretty good, my aunt likes them

emachine are junk

Sony over expensive for what you get

Mac, only suckers buy them

Alienware, same as Mac overpriced

 

My HP was purchased in Aug 05 and is still kickin. I did have the motherboard go bad and I was able to get the exact replacement of off ebay and had a local computer shop change it out. It has been over a year since the mother board was replaced and I traveled quite a bit with my lap top and so far it has held up nicely. It is lacking by todays standard in performance but i just do email and web surfing. I have also been infected with a virus and ended up having to reformat the hard drive but that was not the laptops fault. Now in the event of catastrophic failure I have backed up my important data to an external hard drive just in case.

 

I've known that for years. That's why I said I know about how terrible HP is because I had a Compaq.
Since then, I've been using my old Toshiba Satellite.

 

I got a new Pavilion dv7. Quad Core, widescreen LED screen, 6GB of ram...great machine. We've had several HPs for years and haven't had any real problems. My Dell desktop I got a few years back worked for two days and then the motherboard went. Dell Customer Service was nice enough to come and replace it though.

 

HaHa, after posting this the hard drive crapped out [getting new hard drive tomorrow] at the moment on the sister in laws new MacBook Pro Ooooooo.
Having withdrawal symptoms

 

funny thing about the HP's & compac's..............they're the oly ones running 32-bit, which unfortunately, is needed for my wife's work security system.

talk about a rock & a hard place.

oh, well............that's what extended warrenty is for, right? hahahahahaha

 

get a mac..... lol..... *Insert justin long pic

 

My HP's HDD crapped out after 6 months. Replaced with a Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM and never had a prob since!