[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Michael S. Schiller]

Well, as far as Compaq vs HP in the field of PC quality (I'm not talking about
servers here, but rather the machines consumers would buy at Office Depot, etc) I
would have to say that the HP machines are MUCH higher quality than the similiar
Compaq ones. My mother had bought a Compaq for use in the office a few years ago,
and Compaq had to replace it under warrantee because of a HD failure! It seems
that the motherboard in it only worked with a few very specific models, and those
models weren't being made anymore (I think it was the Quantum Bigfoot, but I
won't swear to it), and they couldn't find a different drive to work with the
machine. I suppose it's a good thing my mom bought the extended warantee with the
machine, something I never do. While we were having all this trouble I had a
chance to talk to the tech, and he said that while they sell by far more HP
machines than Compaq, 90% of the service work was on Compaq machines! Now what
does that tell you?

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-Mike
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