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My first computer was a custom built computer running Windows 95. Other than the fact that the only game I played on it was called "Catz", I don't remember much about it. I think one day it started giving "Illegal Operation" errors and my Dad built me a new one that lasted for a few years. It ran Windows 98, then later, 2000. It was sooner replaced with a more modern computer running XP, and then another XP machine (with Windows Media Center) after that. The WMC machine now sits broken on my desktop, with a Power Mac G4 sitting on top of it. Boo-yah!
I've also had a string of laptops, starting with a Compaq Presario, which ran Windows 98, then shortly after it died, Dad got an HP Pavilion with Windows XP, and that one has been wiped so many times. It's also had its entire board replaced since sautering the power port to the board only worked about 25% of the time. HP sent a new one in for around $600, and we upgraded the RAM on it to 4 gigs. Still good for about 6 years old, though it's a heavyweight. Shortly after, he obtained a Toshiba Satellite display model, with Vista and only 1 gig of RAM (though it came with an AMD Athlon X2 running about 1.8gHz). He left town and forgot it, so he bought a Dell Studio 15 with Vista. No problems with it as of yet, but in between the time he left town w/o the Toshiba and when he first got the Toshiba, he bought me another Compaq, this one was a Presario with the bare minimums for Windows Vista. I hated it. It overheated on more than one occasion and the sound quality was crap. As was the trackpad (or lack there of) and the battery life. When came back home with a Dell, I got the Toshiba, my grandmother got the Compaq. She doesn't use it. Ever. Ha! (I asked for a MacBook as soon as he got the Toshiba, and I ended up getting a cruddy Compaq. YUCK). About 6 months after I got the Tosh, Mom purchased a blue Acer Aspire One netbook. I wanted one, so she purchased a white one. She liked the white one better. She's crashed it twice, and we've had to carefully wipe it and reinstall Windows XP. Then my Dad wanted one, so he got a Lenovo IdeaPad that doesn't keep time.
I've also had a string of laptops, starting with a Compaq Presario, which ran Windows 98, then shortly after it died, Dad got an HP Pavilion with Windows XP, and that one has been wiped so many times. It's also had its entire board replaced since sautering the power port to the board only worked about 25% of the time. HP sent a new one in for around $600, and we upgraded the RAM on it to 4 gigs. Still good for about 6 years old, though it's a heavyweight. Shortly after, he obtained a Toshiba Satellite display model, with Vista and only 1 gig of RAM (though it came with an AMD Athlon X2 running about 1.8gHz). He left town and forgot it, so he bought a Dell Studio 15 with Vista. No problems with it as of yet, but in between the time he left town w/o the Toshiba and when he first got the Toshiba, he bought me another Compaq, this one was a Presario with the bare minimums for Windows Vista. I hated it. It overheated on more than one occasion and the sound quality was crap. As was the trackpad (or lack there of) and the battery life. When came back home with a Dell, I got the Toshiba, my grandmother got the Compaq. She doesn't use it. Ever. Ha! (I asked for a MacBook as soon as he got the Toshiba, and I ended up getting a cruddy Compaq. YUCK). About 6 months after I got the Tosh, Mom purchased a blue Acer Aspire One netbook. I wanted one, so she purchased a white one. She liked the white one better. She's crashed it twice, and we've had to carefully wipe it and reinstall Windows XP. Then my Dad wanted one, so he got a Lenovo IdeaPad that doesn't keep time.
