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Originally posted by MTI
HP/Compaq quality has suffered over recent years, due to price competition and manufacturing quality control. The brunt of their bad reputation comes from the higher number of consumers that are buying up the $500 systems at the big box retailers and pondering why their power supplies and switches don't last a year. As for laptops, I've found their products to be "so-so" neither terribly bad or excitingly good. Sony Vaios tend to be feature laden, slim and sexy, but overpriced and ergonomic disasters. Although they're not very exciting, I've had the best experiences with IBM Thinkpads.
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MTI: thanks for that info. i wonder how there high-end products are.
also as an interesting fact, someone has told me that every laptops are made by 3 basic taiwanese companies. like "compal" is one of them. and so this company manufactures toshiba, HP and some other one. and is the better one of the 3. therefore if this is true then i don't understand why people think toshiba are in a different league than HP's. its kinda like how some people say toshibas screen is better than Hp's, when both 17"s are the same (manufactured by the same company that does laptop's screens) maybe its the brand name that makes them bias?
i was looking into IBM's (and apple for that matter) since these are like well known to be good laptops. however they don't have 17" models or 128mb video (for gaming). or i'd be set to go
thanks for your input.