Frontpage Story #42

I've had a super sh**ty experience with compaq crap!!!
I ordered a new compaq presario 5600i about 2 months ago...
It came with this config:

PII 450
440 BX 100 MHz mother
Samsung 384 MB 100 Mhz SDRAM
IBM Deskstar 14.4 GB Ultra DMA 7,200 RPM
? 6X DVD-ROM (Toshiba or Pioneer probably)
? 56K ITU V.90 hardware modem (not a winmodem) (3COM co-branded probably)
Aureal 8820 PCI soundcard
Diamond Viper V550 16 MB TNT AGP2X video accelerator
Digital Creativity Center junk
Firewire
USB
Wincrash 98
Logitech First+ mouse /wheel
3 YR / 90 DY on-site / 3 YR carry-in

No Zip 100,250,2 gig, etc.
No Imation Superdisk 120
No CD burner
No HD controller
No printer
No ups
No monitor
No 10/100 10BASET ethernet
No extra software

Price $2,700

Well it sounds like a decent box, right?
SUCKO! SUCKO! SUCKO!

Back it went.

The Aureal burned out my speakers because the soundboard kept making crazy
popping noises after almost 100 pitiful, painful adjustments.

The Viper board couldn? push out more than 85 Hz refresh, pit i ful?..

compaq can crack my a** and e** m* ****.

They don? deserve to advertise. I don? know why anyone in their right
mind would by this junk?but I always had a bad feeling about Comcrap
anyways?and I was proven right, the very first time I bought Comcrap. And
there notebooks are super ugly and retarded looking?too many weird curves
for me. I like the more squarish yet sophisticated notebooks like Sony for
just one of many comparative examples.

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I just pre-ordered myself an awesome box and I know it?l rock?

Full tower case
550MHz Intel Pentium III processor (512K L2 cache)
384MB 100MHz SDRAM
18GB ATA-66 hard drive 7200 RPM
40X CD-ROM drive
Sony 24x var. speed Recordable/Rewriteable CD-ROM w/Software
104-key enhanced keyboard
Logitech mouse
2x Superdisk/LS-120 drive with 3-pak media
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
1st 2nd and 3rd year onsite
Promise Ultra 66 PCI IDE Controller
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Value
Sonigistix Monsoon satellites with subwoofer
32MB Diamond Viper 770 AGP SDRAM TNT2 Ultra
56K 3Com/US Robotics X2/V.90 Data/Fax modem
Media One Internet cable modem
Office 97 SBE with Office 2000 upgrd
Customer selects no monitor

Price $3,800

And I? also getting a Sony GDM-F500, an external 2GB Iomega Jaz drive and
a copy of MS SoftImage 3D Extreme.

I? going into my own freelance design business for Co?.

Ummmm Comcrap, please do us all a big favor and file for Chapter 7 or 11 or
anything...