On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:34:48PM -0700, Elric Scott wrote:
> I am currently looking at the HP Pavilion zd7000 and the Compaq Evo N800W.
> Which laptop will have the least problems, and the most efficiancy?
You probably won't want to hear this, but I would *never* buy an
HP/Compaq computer of any sort unless I had an enterprise support
agreement. My experience with HP/Compaq hardware is that they use
crappy components which break all the time, and then they try to get you
to pay them for legitimate warranty repairs or to weasle out of the
warranty.
I have had problems with HP/Compaq trying to do this with me, even
though we have a state-negotiated *contract* with them, and have
purchased the equipment through this program. I'm talking stuff like
trying to charge us to replace dead tape drives under warranty-- "Oh, we
have to take the drive and test it. If you want to be able to back up
your servers, you'll have to give us $125 for a loaner drive. Nevermind
that your contract stipulates the part will be replaced within 24 hours
of the time the call being placed."
Recently, I've also had a lot of problems with Dell laptops which seem
to be related to inadequate cooling and/or use of crappy hard drives in
assembly. Do yourself a favor-- get a Toshiba or IBM laptop. The one
drawback is that if they break, you have to ship them back (at their
expense) for repair, and it generally takes 3-4 days.
Cheers,
Dennis
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