We've only own 2 desktops (bought the first one in 1999) and they have both been Compaqs (I think they are made by HP) and we have never ever had a lick of problems with either of them!!! In fact the very first one we bought still works (it has like a 40GB HD

), my dad uses it!!!
Now the one we have now we bought in 2005 and we just had our first problem with it about 3 weeks ago....we were having storms and the electricity went out and it did something to the power source thing that you plug the cord into. Hubby got a part off a used computer and fixed it in 5 minutes....it's just like it was before!!!
I always always recommond Compaqs!!!
Happy computer shopping!!!!!