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GTS Mark · 12-02-2002, 08:56 PM

Goddamn Compaq laptop less than 5 months old and I have to send it all the fricking way from Vancouver to Quebec to get it warrantied!!!

Arrrrggh when I asked how long it would take they said 7-10 business days which basically means 3-4 weeks. I asked them if they would supply me with a replacement during the meantime and the prick basically insulted me. He said "well sir you should have thought of purchasing a backup device for these kinds of situations..." Well fuck junior if I knew your laptops were such pieces of shit I would have bought something else!

Anyways as soon as I got off the phone with them I walked my ass down the street to Staples and bought another computer. NON-COMPAQ!!!

The whole reason I had the laptop instead of the desktop was so I could travel and work on the road. Oh well screw it, just keep in mind for those of you shopping for laptops to avoid Compaq as their products and support are shit!

DH

FlyingIguana · 12-02-2002, 08:57 PM

doesn't radio shack do warranty work on compaq?

Juicy D. Links · 12-02-2002, 08:58 PM

dell is better, they sent me the wrong laptop color and i had to send it back but they sent me the right one first before i had to send it back

Makingcoin · 12-02-2002, 08:59 PM

I had to get my compaq desktop repaired.. It took ages.

Compaq

KrazieSweets · 12-02-2002, 09:03 PM

yeah compaq period sucks...slow and they break so easy...i would never get one of those...i had a gateway another piece of crap.....but now i am happy with my Dell excellent CS and a great warrenty too 4 year on-site whichs means they come to my house to fix the problem

gateway & compaq

Sambuka · 12-02-2002, 10:46 PM

Yeah NOBODY ever buy a compaq they are such shit, any brand name laptop is bullshit, I paid $4000 for a 1 ghz laptop early last year and the damn thing runs like a P700 cause of all the bullshit software it installs in the taskbar.

MY compaq P500 I had years ago booted up with 72% computer resources left. I mean 500mhz times 72% = 360mhz SO I bought a fucking 360 mhz machine cause they installed all that useless bullshit software you can't install unless you do a fresh install with a cutdown version of windows which isn't easy to do with Winme or win98se.

Sammy

FlyingIguana · 12-02-2002, 10:57 PM

i don't care for any brand name pc. dell i'm really not impressed with. especially after paying an extra couple hundred bux for a 3 year warranty on my laptop that a year later they said i didn't buy.

dell

twistyneck · 12-02-2002, 10:58 PM

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

Sambuka · 12-02-2002, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by twistyneck
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

Sorry I'd rather run windows 95 than go through the nightmare of using a MAC, everytime you find a software you like (doh wrong operating system), that really must get fucking annoying.

Sammy

letshunt · 12-02-2002, 11:15 PM

Well-

I work for a VAR and sell computers to institutions and large companies all the time. There really isn't much difference in the inside of most boxes, laptop or desktop...they are essentially made with similiar components.

I usually tell most people that if you buy a laptop, they are great, but because of the compactness of the components, you will have problems. With the bigger processors, comes much more heat and dispersal of that heat is nearly inpossible in a laptop.

I sell Dell, Compaq, and HP laptops to clients and have about the same breakdown rate. None really have great service, there is no money in the service end for the VARS they depend on, so it is a very low priority for us. Plus Dell wants each VAR to pay $2500 to have the honor of making twenty bucks on each repair...fuck that.

Now servers is a different story, compaq makes the best servers in the business. They also control 75% of the LAN servers out there. That is why HP wanted them so bad. They also developed the enginerring for most of the RAID tech, not the technology itself, but the implementation...also their hot plug drives are awesome. The poweredge has a long way to go....piece of junk. Desktop with a few extra drives and a array controller.

Good luck on your laptop, I have given up on them...everytime you drop one or overheat one...you got problems. I got plenty of problems already.

railz · 12-02-2002, 11:20 PM

Compaq has probably the WORST name in the UK. Seriously, even the servers are regarded as proprietry junk that will fail when you really need them.

For lappies, go Dell, VPR Matrix or Toshiba.

letshunt · 12-02-2002, 11:20 PM

Sammy-

We don't you go to a computer parts shop and just by an OEM version of win98? It won't have anything but the OS on it and will run alot better....better yet find someone with an OEM version of win98 and use laplink to move a copy of his OS to yours.

12-02-2002, 08:56 PM	#1
GTS Mark Vrume Mark Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 20,912	Fucking Compaq's!!! Goddamn Compaq laptop less than 5 months old and I have to send it all the fricking way from Vancouver to Quebec to get it warrantied!!! Arrrrggh when I asked how long it would take they said 7-10 business days which basically means 3-4 weeks. I asked them if they would supply me with a replacement during the meantime and the prick basically insulted me. He said "well sir you should have thought of purchasing a backup device for these kinds of situations..." Well fuck junior if I knew your laptops were such pieces of shit I would have bought something else! Anyways as soon as I got off the phone with them I walked my ass down the street to Staples and bought another computer. NON-COMPAQ!!! The whole reason I had the laptop instead of the desktop was so I could travel and work on the road. Oh well screw it, just keep in mind for those of you shopping for laptops to avoid Compaq as their products and support are shit! DH

12-02-2002, 11:15 PM	#10
letshunt Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 196	Well- I work for a VAR and sell computers to institutions and large companies all the time. There really isn't much difference in the inside of most boxes, laptop or desktop...they are essentially made with similiar components. I usually tell most people that if you buy a laptop, they are great, but because of the compactness of the components, you will have problems. With the bigger processors, comes much more heat and dispersal of that heat is nearly inpossible in a laptop. I sell Dell, Compaq, and HP laptops to clients and have about the same breakdown rate. None really have great service, there is no money in the service end for the VARS they depend on, so it is a very low priority for us. Plus Dell wants each VAR to pay $2500 to have the honor of making twenty bucks on each repair...fuck that. Now servers is a different story, compaq makes the best servers in the business. They also control 75% of the LAN servers out there. That is why HP wanted them so bad. They also developed the enginerring for most of the RAID tech, not the technology itself, but the implementation...also their hot plug drives are awesome. The poweredge has a long way to go....piece of junk. Desktop with a few extra drives and a array controller. Good luck on your laptop, I have given up on them...everytime you drop one or overheat one...you got problems. I got plenty of problems already. __________________ The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -George Patton

12-02-2002, 11:20 PM	#11
railz Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 2,531	Compaq has probably the WORST name in the UK. Seriously, even the servers are regarded as proprietry junk that will fail when you really need them. For lappies, go Dell, VPR Matrix or Toshiba. __________________ This Space for Rent

12-02-2002, 11:20 PM	#12
letshunt Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 196	Sammy- We don't you go to a computer parts shop and just by an OEM version of win98? It won't have anything but the OS on it and will run alot better....better yet find someone with an OEM version of win98 and use laplink to move a copy of his OS to yours. __________________ The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -George Patton

12-02-2002, 08:57 PM	#2
FlyingIguana aspiring banker Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: toronto Posts: 10,870	doesn't radio shack do warranty work on compaq?

12-02-2002, 08:58 PM	#3
Juicy D. Links So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: N.Y. -Long Island -- Posts: 122,992	dell is better, they sent me the wrong laptop color and i had to send it back but they sent me the right one first before i had to send it back

12-02-2002, 08:59 PM	#4
Makingcoin Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Ditch Posts: 8,919	I had to get my compaq desktop repaired.. It took ages. Compaq

12-02-2002, 09:03 PM	#5
KrazieSweets So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,060	yeah compaq period sucks...slow and they break so easy...i would never get one of those...i had a gateway another piece of crap.....but now i am happy with my Dell excellent CS and a great warrenty too 4 year on-site whichs means they come to my house to fix the problem gateway & compaq

12-02-2002, 10:46 PM	#6
Sambuka Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: - Posts: 500	Yeah NOBODY ever buy a compaq they are such shit, any brand name laptop is bullshit, I paid $4000 for a 1 ghz laptop early last year and the damn thing runs like a P700 cause of all the bullshit software it installs in the taskbar. MY compaq P500 I had years ago booted up with 72% computer resources left. I mean 500mhz times 72% = 360mhz SO I bought a fucking 360 mhz machine cause they installed all that useless bullshit software you can't install unless you do a fresh install with a cutdown version of windows which isn't easy to do with Winme or win98se. Sammy

12-02-2002, 10:57 PM	#7
FlyingIguana aspiring banker Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: toronto Posts: 10,870	i don't care for any brand name pc. dell i'm really not impressed with. especially after paying an extra couple hundred bux for a 3 year warranty on my laptop that a year later they said i didn't buy. dell

12-02-2002, 10:58 PM	#8
twistyneck So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hanging by the neck until dead. Posts: 4,660	http://www.apple.com/powerbook/