Re: Whats a Good Computer brand?

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 AthlonT 64 Processor 3400+
AMD AthlonT 64 processor 3400+* with 64-bit platform; 1600MHz system
bus with Enhanced Virus Protection for Windows XP SP2, and
HyperTransportT 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

I have not heard of Compaq putting spyware on their computers. As Carey
says they may put limited trial software on there but that is all. The XP
you get preinstalled will be the same as XP from other companies except each
company will add their own stuff to it.
As for the recovery discs, its likely they do what many other major
companies do and thats put the restore set on a hidden partition. You can
create your own restore disc out of this partition.


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