friends looking at this ebay laptop, i got bad feelings on it...
08-17-2004, 06:41 AM
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Re:friends looking at this ebay laptop, i got bad feelings on it...
not a registered user cause he already got caught.. auction is over and someone I'm sure is out cash.
RULE NUMBER 1:
Never buy an HP/Compaq product!!!
I used to work for hewlett packard a while back and I can affirm that they are the devil. I've had an HP omnibook in the past and that thing was a total POS.. nothing but problems and customer support/service ------- sucked ***. I sent the thing back to the factory for repair a total of 5 times and they never fixed my problem. Eventually they just refunded me and said sorry they couldn't help; bastards.
RULE NUMBER 2:
Never buy a "home edition" laptop"
What I mean by this is there are two kinds of laptop grades. Business grade and home grade. HP Pavilion is the home grade, HP omnibook is the business grade. Business grade machines are tougher and are designed to run all the time versus the home grade machines that burn up if you leave them on 24/7. When it comes to used laptops you definately need to consider the machine that is better built. Other brands would be dell latitude (business) versus dell inspiron (home). Compaq armada (business) versus presario (home).
There are more tips to buying laptops, someone should start up a laptop buying guide thread and I will contribute. I've owned lots of different laptops and currently have a dell latitude cpx p3-500 that I'm happy with.
-ryan
RULE NUMBER 1:
Never buy an HP/Compaq product!!!
I used to work for hewlett packard a while back and I can affirm that they are the devil. I've had an HP omnibook in the past and that thing was a total POS.. nothing but problems and customer support/service ------- sucked ***. I sent the thing back to the factory for repair a total of 5 times and they never fixed my problem. Eventually they just refunded me and said sorry they couldn't help; bastards.
RULE NUMBER 2:
Never buy a "home edition" laptop"
What I mean by this is there are two kinds of laptop grades. Business grade and home grade. HP Pavilion is the home grade, HP omnibook is the business grade. Business grade machines are tougher and are designed to run all the time versus the home grade machines that burn up if you leave them on 24/7. When it comes to used laptops you definately need to consider the machine that is better built. Other brands would be dell latitude (business) versus dell inspiron (home). Compaq armada (business) versus presario (home).
There are more tips to buying laptops, someone should start up a laptop buying guide thread and I will contribute. I've owned lots of different laptops and currently have a dell latitude cpx p3-500 that I'm happy with.
-ryan
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