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Do store bought PCs suck, or just Compaq, other?

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GenuineAdvantage:
It's not mine so I can't go grab it and trade it. Besides, I also don't like HP. Not to the point of boycotting them but they have made some cheesy desktops in the past. I'm just going to buy some $100 after rebate PC that is not compaq sometime and replace it. Then I might put some dynamite inside that other one, take it out in the desert and put it to some use for a change. Or maybe just some really strong firecrackers. Dynamite is hard to come by for a regular person. My preference would be C-4 but that's impossible.

Orethrius:
Ah, I missed the part where you said it was a desktop and assumed you meant a laptop.  Those used to be pretty crappy, but HP's quality is up somewhat from where it used to be, since the merger.  Just steer well clear of Integrated Piece-of-Shit Inc. (whoops, sorry, I mean eMachines if Gateway even lets them market under that name anymore).  BTW, nothing is impossible, just really unlikely.  :D

H_TeXMeX_H:
Well recently I've been looking for computers (laptops actually) and there are a lot of lesser known companies that make really good laptops much cheaper and better than the major manufacturers ... you might wanna look around a bit (try google). And I even found ones with NO OS PREINSTALLED !!! Hell yeah ... that makes me wanna buy it no matter the price ... but it was actually pretty cheap for it's specs.

Well I hope this doesn't count as advertising, but I just have to cite this example (no os installed)

http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=catagory&include_type=notebook

now, they run in the thousands ($800 minimum), but for their specs they are worth it. With those kind of specs I just wonder how they keep them from overheating.

For example this one:

http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=configurator®ular_model_id=1077&model_id=1080&include_type=14_inch&category=


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piratePenguin:

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Why bother..

GenuineAdvantage:
I wouldn't pay that much for a pc anyways. I'd get an overpriced display before I ever went boring and tried to keep up with the latest stuff. A futile act. From how clueless OS folk seem, Mac people and even linux, I am sure now that Microsoft will stay around for a long time. The real public goes out and buys cheap store PCs with the preinstalled OS and uses it until it goes to hell. I went looking at the stores, PCs are really cheap now, and not really slow stuff either, just regular usable stuff with large hard disks. No matter how windows sucks it will be in there on cheap PCs. How many are are going to spend a bigger buck to get less CPU for the buck just because some dork somewhere cries that Mac is cool? Really few! I understand why computer companies bow to them. Resistance is futile. You are our lord and master MS, take us on the righteous path. Oh well, there's always linux shooting that tank with an air gun. Better than nothing.

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