Re: Whats a Good Computer brand?

Compaq does not "put spyware on all their machines".
They may install some trial software, but it can be easily
uninstalled.

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Carey Frisch
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"nick" wrote:

| (sigh)
| ok im looking to a amd athlon 64 computer i currently run a p3 1 gigahertz
| with 512 ram and play online games wow guildwars and eq2 with no issues with
| 128 meg agp ati card im getting a new computer for dungeons and dragons
| online which requires p4 or amd equal min 512 ram min 64 meg video card and
| sle and found compact
|
|
| Compaq Presario Desktop with AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3400+
| AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3400+* with 64-bit platform; 1600MHz system bus
| with Enhanced Virus Protection for Windows XP SP2, and HyperTransport™
| Technology 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 4GB
| NVIDIA GeForce 6150LE Graphics with up to 256MB shared video memory;
| high-definition audio with 8-speaker support
|
| but was told compaq sucks that they put spyware on all there machines and
| that they come with no recovery disks with my current system if i lost my
| main hard drive i would drop in win xp cd and reinstall everything i heard
| with compaq u dont have a cd that the cd is a seperate partition on the hd
| but if hd fails or is removed u dont have that option...im stuck HELP

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