Originally Posted by lowbrow

Never had any problems with HP's my pavillion DV4000 laptop is still going strong, as well as a P3 desktop I bought like 7-8 years ago (gave it to my parents). First thing I did to both was format and install my own copy of winXP, get my own drivers and they work great. It's all the shitty pre-loaded software that comes on them now. HP's are fine :shrug: