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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (154172)	1/7/2002 4:32:39 PM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

To be fair, none of those Presarios I've seen had AMD inside All of my systems are Intel: P2-350, Celeron 433 mobile, P3 600 mobile, and P3 1GHz desktop. Of course, none of the problems have had anything to do with the processor. Printer burned out... hard drive ate itself. "Overfeatured" motherboard. "Oversoftwared" system. Since I've installed the new HD, I've been going through and taking a scalpel to every program I don't need that's "automatically" installed (as opposed to just a few select pieces of bloatware). The system is starting to work better.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (154172)	1/7/2002 8:13:04 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"Can't be worse than almost all of the Compaq Presario desktops I've seen. Yes, it's so bad that I personally recommend anyone away from Compaq desktops. P.S. - To be fair, none of those Presarios I've seen had AMD inside." Humm, we have a 500 MHz Athlon Compaq and with the new HD (old one crashed, replaced under warranty) and a new CD burner the thing has been a real workhorse for 1.7 years. Tech support wasn't that hard to reach either not that I need it. Note that this machine was pretty full featured in its day, SB 128 card, Voodoo3-2000 card, conexant modem...nothing integrated. Thing has even withstood a large amount of drywall dust when I installed cabinets. Jim