HP Pavillion--Crapped Out!
BF Veteran
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 4,772
From: Halifax, NS, Canada
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.
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.
Starting Member
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 160
From: Maryland
Toshiba/Asus laptops have the lowest failure rate. HP is at the top 
http://gizmodo.com/5406415/laptop-re...ome-out-on-top
http://gizmodo.com/5406415/laptop-re...ome-out-on-top
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Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 276
From: Merrill, Wisconsin
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
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
Last edited by The_Beast; Jan 11, 2010 at 04:32 PM.
Super Member
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,345
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.
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Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Titusville, FL
New Member
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 56
From: Rocky Mountains
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.
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 1,466
From: Auckland New Zealand
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 5,143
From: GTA, Ontario, CANADA
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
talk about a rock & a hard place.
oh, well............that's what extended warrenty is for, right? hahahahahaha
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,639
From: South End Barrie, Ontario, Canada
My HP's HDD crapped out after 6 months. Replaced with a Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM and never had a prob since!