1: Seen worse. All OEMs have their fun ways of creating confusing error messages.adv3rsary wrote:
lets seeeee... where to beginFreezer7Pro wrote:
Compaq-branded stuff is lol. Why HP ever bought them is beyond me.adv3rsary wrote:
normally i'd say custom build.. but for $400 that isn't bad. and Acer.. well it's not the best but there is much much much worse (like HP, Compaq, Medion....).. o and stay away from ACER laptops.. they are the blowies... (i was a computer tech for years and used to fix all these brands... keep that in mind and take my advice for what it's worth)
And what's so bad about HP? Except for being fucking horrid to disassemble, I've never had an issue with any of their computers.
1. they are the only computers messed up enough to a ever give you an error called "Code purple"
2. they are the only computers that ever need something so stupid called "tatooing" that you have to do to your motherboard about 50% of the time when you change a major piece of hardware just to make your "recovery discs" work
3. they are loaded with junk software no one ever needs that just makes the mfr money. they took 3-4gb of windows and somehow bloated it into 14GB of recovery discs.. just crap.
4. identical spec computers. 1 hp and 1 say acer.... the hp takes an extra 1-1.5 minutes to boot into windows
5. they have the highest DOA of any manufacturer's computers i have had the displeasure to work on
6. they are the only manufacturer i have seen ship computers with MISSING hard drives, MISSING ram.... (no quality control)
7. they over charge for parts from their part ordering center.. $400 for a 320gb hard drive? i dont think so.. i cant get it for about $70
8. the reps they sent to "assist" in stores are the most ill-prepared and stupid people i have ever seen
9. they only allow you to burn 1 set of recovery discs which is retarded considering their recovery disc creator program creates discs that are corrupt about 25-50% of the time and tells u they were created successfully.. and i dono in what world it should take 3 hours to burn 3 regular dvds of data.. except in the HP world.. (there is a trick around this btw.. look for and delete hpcd.sys from all hds in your computer and you can re-burn the discs as many times as you want. they are hidden files so make sure u can see hidden files before u search for it)
i can keep going but i think you get the point
2: Who the fuck uses recovery disks?
3: Who the fuck uses recovery disks?
4: Not over here.
5: Not compared to, say, ASUS. My god, those things are horrible!
6: Not over here.
7: Who the fuck uses an OEM ordering center? Srslynao.
8: Who the fuck, except for Mac users, use on-the-spot service?
9: Who the fuck uses recovery disks?
Yes, I'm a bit of an HP fanboi when it comes to laptops. I've owned four, all second- or third-hand, and I've never, ever had an issue relating something that I haven't caused (like shorting out the northbridge with a screwdriver).
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
