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Technology Stocks : Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David W. Taylor who wrote (135)	5/7/2002 7:04:31 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4345

Not sure of the current situation, but for a long time, the HWP laptops were also outsourced to Compal. I once put an HP laptop (4150???) right next to a comparable Dell model and they were all but identical. Had they not chosen to use slightly different connectors for their batteries and hot-swappable drive bays, you could have swapped parts... No problem with the current Dell notebook (Lattitude C610) which is on roughly 24 hours a day. Then again, there was never trouble with the HP model either. Have three Dell desktops running as well. Also running fine. The oldest of them suffered a disk failure a year or so ago, but by that point it had been turned on for more than two years, so hardly unexpected. (They did replace it under warranty, though I personally chose to upgrade all the storage on the machine at that time.) mg