i like compaq's my laptop, albeit, old, is a compaq and it runs great. its only a Evo N600c 1GHz P3 but with 512MB ram its pretty quick. quick enough to run crome and search the internet, thats pretty much all i use it for. my roommate has a compaq too its a Presario V2000 with a AMD Turion 2.4 GHz. i like compaqs, never ever had a problem with mine, and i dont expect to.