[fabsroman]

Andy,

With computers nowadays, I think it is pretty much hit or miss. I have had a Dell laptop for 2 years and it has been fine. Meanwhile, my brother's Dell Desktop had the harddrive crash after 6 months. I spent an entire day trying to get ahold of Dell's technical support so I could get a tech out there to change the harddrive. Mind you, I spent a couple hours diagnosing what the problem was. At first, the number I dialed was busy. Then I spoke to some idiot that I do not think had a clue. After that, I tried calling the number again and it said it was disconnected. So, I sent them an e-mail to make sure they knew what was going on. About a week later, I received a call to schedule a time the following week for the installer to come out with the new harddrive. It took him all of 2 minutes to put the new harddrive in. They could have shipped it to me and I would have installed it. I then spent the rest of that day loading all of my brother's software back on the computer because Dell does not do that. Man was I pissed.

With this HP that I bought for my client, I think it has the same problem (i.e., the harddrive crashed). Problem is that it crashed right out of the box.

From what the Dell tech told me, harddrives nowadays are not as good as they used to be because the competition is steep regarding technological advances. So, the companies are more worried about R&D than quality control.

Don't know what to tell you about your monitor though.