Cracked Compaq Laptops?

gwn asks: "I have just over 100 Compaq Armada 100s laptop purchased early in 2001. Over 60 have developed cracks in the lid just above the left hinge and at the front corners. I had one of these on a VP''s desk, no abuse, and it cracked. Compaq has denied any other reports of this with any other customer, just my problem they say. They have stopped giving me a hard time when I send these in for repair and they are repairing for free. This is still a royal pain in the rear and does cost me money. Lately, they started coming back with Compaq Notebook 100 labeled screens and it got me thinking they are running out of parts. It can't just be mine that are cracking. Does anyone else have a Compaq Armada 100s or Notebook 100 with cracking case problems?"

Comments

Interesting....

[BitGeek]

This is another case where "Macs are more expensive".

Other than a bit of chipped paint on some TiBooks (mine didn't have it) Apple's powerbooks have consistently gotten great reliability ratings, survived being run over by cars, and dropped from tall buildings.

And they cost less than comperable PCs (which, actually there aren't any because Intel Processors run at 1/3 to 1/6 speed on battery power and are slower to begin with)... yet have higher reliability.

The ironic thing is you could get a $2,500 apple powerbook, run MS Office under Virtual PC-- ie EMULATION-- and get better performance than a $4,000 Compaq running the same software off of battery.... ... and it will last longer to boot. Yet people say Macs are too expensive.

Like saying "Why buy a Toyota when you can get a Yugo???"

Not to be obnoxious, but there really is a difference. If you're gona buy a PC laptop, get one from a quality manufacturer... of which I only know of one: IBM. Toshiba and sony may be high quality when it comes to laptops too.. but Dell, Gateway, Compaq, no-name-- how can you be suprised when your Yugo breaks down???

Flamebait.

[BitGeek]

The parent post is not flamebait. THIS is flamebait-- you fucking asshole stupid idiot moderating fucks who couldn't think your way out of a paper bag don't deserve to live, let alone reproduce, let alone moderate comments on slashdot.

This site increasingly looses its utility because there are too few actual thinking humnans aboard and far too many goosestepping idiot pc nazis.

Yeah, any time you point out that the macintosh doesn't suck, you're engaging in "flamebait". Sheesh. Not to long ago I had a post that was both +5 and "flamebait".

Metamoderation needs more teeth to clean out the gene pool, you fuckwads.

Your information, your life, it has NO value. Go kill yourself.