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Compaq and quality..
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My mother has from her employer been given a rather generous offer on buying a new Compaq computer. The two options she have is Presario S4300SE and Presario 8720SE. She has no real interests in computers and so even a basic model will do. What concerns me about buying a name-brand computer [especially Compaq] is the quality and their "special improvements" to standards and so on. Or maybe is this just _old_ prejustice from my side. So, please, can you recommend her to this decision? The price for a Presario S4300SE with 19" CRT and a Canon i350 Inkjet printer would be ~$790 including three years warranty. |
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"Håkan Rohdin" wrote in message om... : Hi! : : My mother has from her employer been given a rather generous offer on : buying a new Compaq computer. The two options she have is Presario : S4300SE and Presario 8720SE. She has no real interests in computers : and so even a basic model will do. What concerns me about buying a : name-brand computer [especially Compaq] is the quality and their : "special improvements" to standards and so on. Or maybe is this just : _old_ prejustice from my side. : : So, please, can you recommend her to this decision? The price for a : Presario S4300SE with 19" CRT and a Canon i350 Inkjet printer would be : ~$790 including three years warranty. If that includes monitor, DVD, CD-RW, keyboard, mouse and speakers, the go for it. If it does not include these items, well, shop elsewhere. BTW, if you do decide to buy it...(as a friend just recently did from BEST BUY for about the same price with all the items I mentioned included..preinstalled software..Windows XP..).. MAKE sure that the FIRST thing you do after hooking it up is to go buy 10-12 CD's and back up that entire system because they do not give you any software... also, you might want to check out the info, views on Win XP. Some like it, some don't. It does have compatibility problems with certain programs/software. But the price you stated is the current rate for that system. I cannot vouch for it but it seems reasonable. Helen |
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"Helen" wrote in message ...
"Håkan Rohdin" wrote in message om... : Hi! : : My mother has from her employer been given a rather generous offer on : buying a new Compaq computer. The two options she have is Presario : S4300SE and Presario 8720SE. She has no real interests in computers : and so even a basic model will do. What concerns me about buying a : name-brand computer [especially Compaq] is the quality and their : "special improvements" to standards and so on. Or maybe is this just : _old_ prejustice from my side. : : So, please, can you recommend her to this decision? The price for a : Presario S4300SE with 19" CRT and a Canon i350 Inkjet printer would be : ~$790 including three years warranty. If that includes monitor, DVD, CD-RW, keyboard, mouse and speakers, the go for it. If it does not include these items, well, shop elsewhere. BTW, if you do decide to buy it...(as a friend just recently did from BEST BUY for about the same price with all the items I mentioned included..preinstalled software..Windows XP..).. MAKE sure that the FIRST thing you do after hooking it up is to go buy 10-12 CD's and back up that entire system because they do not give you any software... also, you might want to check out the info, views on Win XP. Some like it, some don't. It does have compatibility problems with certain programs/software. But the price you stated is the current rate for that system. I cannot vouch for it but it seems reasonable. Helen She has decided to accept it. At the end of the day, even if I was going to build it myself, the price would have been higher. And the system is complete, including Windows XP, MS Word, MS Works and a few other things.. Thanks for your advice! /Håkan |
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