[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Twayne aka Pop]

Eönwë wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:10:03 -0500, "indigo"
> <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> anyone have any trouble with HP Pavilion desktops?
>
> My experience with HP has been good; I have a 
> MediaCenter
> rather than a Pavilion, but HP has been helpful and
> cooperative when I've needed it.
>
> I believe that the Pavilion is one of the HP lines 
> from
> HP-pre-Compaq takeover, so you should be OK - but I 
> would
> NOT get anything that has the Compaq brand name on 
> it;
> the two support organizations are still separate, and 
> the
> Compaq organization would be charitably described as
> "suboptimal" and "inadequate".
>
> It should be noted that HP appears to have a bad 
> habit of
> preloading the box with lots of
> should-be-considered-unnecessary stuff, much of it 
> demo
> versions that you have to subscribe to services for 
> or
> purchase a license to in order to use them fully. 
> Compaq
> does, too, but less so, to my perception.
>
> It's becoming increasingly common to provide the
> "restore" materials as a partition on the disk, with 
> a
> programmed option to build CDs or DVDs to use if the 
> HD
> craps out; HP does this. It's a practice I don't 
> like,
> but...

Yeah, it still stinks to high heavens; although at 
least it lets experienced users create the discs, it 
still leaves the newbies & neophytes saying "HUH?". 
It's pathetic they can't be bothered to provide the OS 
and drivers on separate media with a simple set of 
instructs to use them.  Last I knew Gateway provided 
the  media but that was a few years ago I made my last 
purchase.

Pop`