Compaq Blows Dead Bears
My wife has a Compaq Presario laptop that I purchased for her about 3 years ago. I can only plead insanity at the time of the purchase, because even then I hated Compaq's.
Now I loathe them, despise them, and wouldn't use one to get online if it was the last computer on earth (yes, I know that's redundant).
Not only is it a royal pain in the ass to get anything up and running on a Compaq, not only is their hardware so stupid that even the damn screws are proprietary, not only will it NOT go above a 640x480 16bit res off a fresh install, noooo, you add all this to a crappy ass website that makes it harder than hell to find anything and you have one serious Piece of ShitTM.
Anyone who buys a Compaq and admits it to me, better be prepared for me to come over there and see if yours will fly as well as mine does. Especially out a second story window.