New Laptop

[sapiens74 0]

Well I finally took the plunge. After months of Soul searching I finally went with the COmpaq 2715US over the Dell Inspiron 8100. COmpaq had more features and the case looked a lot cooler. PLus I support the 8100's at work and they seem to have glitches, with thier mini pci cards.

 

ANyway what you guys think of Compaq, did I make the right choice, or no?

 

Let me know So I can keep it or send it back

[Brian Frank 0]

I've only really had a long term experience with Compaq, and my dad's laptop is very good. If I bought a laptop, I'd go for compaq most likely.

[JP- 0]

I would go for dell because the c600s at work have never given me any trouble and are very ***y lookin

[JP- 0]

Why the h.e.l.l is the word s.e.x filtered out!

[nposce 0]

I had a compaq laptop, what a piece of junk. So i heard about this company who makes Sony's laptops (or so i heard) called Sager. Sager - the best notebook ever. I swear it's as close to owning a desktop as anything. Not one problem to report yet (over a year of use). Compaq, Dell, and whoever else, throw it in the trash. www.sagernotebooks.com Go there to buy your next laptop. Best damn prices i've ever seen too.

[JP- 0]

But dells look nice, authough we have had a few HDD fails, not nearly as many as on our old IBM stinkpads though

[NotSoSmart 0]

Well at work I have around 30 Armada E-500s ranging from the P3-500 to 933 and after 1.5 years I just had 1 of the older ones lose the pcmia slots and another one had a hard drive fail.

 

The MB replacement part is almost $1500!! I don't think so. I have a few agents that never hook to the network so I can issue it out the builtin modem still works fine. Replacment hard drive $200 for a 12 gig.

 

I started getting a few Dells have not had them long but so far so good they are Inspiron 7000 I know I know celly CPUs but like I said there running just fine. Besides how fast can Office 2000 run

[JP- 0]

I cant express my love of dells in words they look great and have lovely screens. my only complain would be the touchpads, i always hit them when typing, maybe its a prob on compaqs as well ?

[Dragon-Lord 0]

New Toshiba Satellite 5005-v507 is what I have been using for the past two weeks, and it is dyn-o-mite. GF4MX graphics, 1.1ghz p3, 15" UXGA 1600x1200 display, and the best damn sound system and speaker setup you have ever heard from a laptop (Harmon Kardon, with a subwoofer). Dumped my Dell Inspiron 8100 for this one and won't be looking back.

 

And it was only about $2,300 or so...

 

:}

[JP- 0]

only

[sapiens74 0]

I love Dells too, almost worked for them too.

 

Anyway, I had to choose between the 8100 and 2715 and it came down to features, and also that I have anonther Compaq laptop so I can exchange stuff between the too.

 

We've had to send 3 brande new Dells back in the last month, also had issues with the Docking stations and WIndows 2000

[clutch 1]

Dells rock, but I don't care for Compaq's laptops or workstations (but I love their servers and handhelds).

[ConQueso 0]

Well, if you're looking to do any 3D gaming on it, look for a GeForce2 GO or GeForce4 GO with 32MB.

[sapiens74 0]

I got the radeon 32 mb, and I went ATI cause of the clarity of the picture

[sapiens74 0]

I took it back, The hard drive went out the second day I got it. Gonna order the damn Dell hehe