I had a Compaq laptop(still have it)....went through a whole lot with it. I had several problems...tried to communicate via phone with tech support....they walked me through processes that caused a ton more problems. I had to then send it in for them to fix the whole thing.....They then blamed ME for the problems it had! They were yelling at ME on the phone....even though I never did a thing to it. Basically, the computer(laptop) was awful to start...and they had really awful tech support/customer support. I have not dealt with them since the merger(HP/Compaq), so I hope that they've gotten better.
I have not had problems dealing with HP tech support for my current HP desktop....hope this helps.
Hi, I am on a budget here looking for a new laptop. I found the Compaq R3399CL for $999 at eCost.com. It looks great, here are the specs. Athlon 64 at 3400+ with PowerNow...thats like 3.2 ghz I think. 1gig of ram.. 80gig hard drive at 5400 rpm. 64mb nVIDIA GeForce Go 4 440 dedicated. DVD re-write, no - though. Wireless, big screen, 5-1 media reader. All for $999. Now this is my second laptop, and I'm not sure what to get. I've heard that quality on Compaq laptops is not great...I've also heard that HP fixed that problem. I think that $999 is a great price. But I want to get some good ideas from people. ALso, would I be able to just play a few games on it like hitman, maybe a little of CS, my friend has 64mb shared video ram and hes played CS and Half-Life 2. I will also run programs like photoshop or video editing. Just some help on quality, and whatever else.Just some opinions please. Thanks a lot for your help.
http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=758867

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