> Anyway, the HP (being an american company) Is not IBM American too?
> has screwed up quality and > the sub-terranian levels to which they have dropped, I will actually be > willing to pay a premium for a Chinese brand if the alternate is to buy > HP. so it is not whether you are american or chinese, it is quality v/s > price. 5 years of having Florina as the CEO has moved Compaq / HP's > laptops from being the most desired to the most shunned. My Compaq Presario 2203AL will be turning 2 years this October, and till date I have had absolutely no issues whatsoever. It has survived 3 not-so-gentle falls and some pretty rigorous usage (downloads running for hours on end, fairly regular linux compilation, and so on). On the otherhand I have seen my room-mates' Acer Travelmate give some minor issues. One of his speakers went kaput, and until very recently he had trouble configuring ACPI in GNU/Linux. Regards, Debarshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
