What company to go with for a good reliable laptop?

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Jul 7, 2004 | 01:39 PM

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TrueWildMan

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Originally Posted by Baileyjack

I'm pretty sure HP bought out Compaq. I have a Dell 2650 laptop that'* a couple of years old now and had no problems with it.
Deb

Yes, they did, and they did improve somewhat on the design, but still have a few years to go to work out their bugs. I included Compaq in that list because he said he'* looking for a used laptop.

Jul 7, 2004 | 06:46 PM

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Paulnold

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Thanks for the replies ladies and gents,I now need to get one with a dvd drive according to the wife

,The alien ware stuffs looks pretty darn cool, im gonna surf ebay tonight and see what i can find,dvd and atleast 450 mhz ,20gig(music and a couple movies)are what im looking for I will listen to the compaq warnings and stay away

Jul 7, 2004 | 08:41 PM

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ut ohh, this post is being typed on a Compaq laptop...

Oh wait, it IS a total pile LOL

I bought it from my employer when it went off lease so it still has thier version of Win95 on it, I will upgrade the OS someday, if I get around to it, maybe

Jul 7, 2004 | 08:49 PM

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Dell Latitude D-Series laptops are amazing. I use Dell laptops at work, and the business class computers are top notch. They hardly break, and they look amazing too.

Look on Dell'* site under the Dell outlet to save money.

Jul 7, 2004 | 09:05 PM

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Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology – (3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2.5MB L3 Cache)
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology - (2.8GHz - 3.4GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB Cache)
Memory
1GB PC-3200 DDR SDRAM at 400MHz.
upgradeable up to 2 GB of PC3200 with 2 SO-DIMM slots.

This thing comes loaded graphics wise but is upgradable because it has an AGP slot which is really awesome. If your not into gaming or video editing and stuff their normal laptops/notebooks are really nice fast and cheap. But this is the one I would get.. Its a PC replacer.