[geeks] HP announces EOL for AlphaServer systems

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Maybe in high end stuff.  My son's school required him(us) to
>>>by one of their laptops (through the school).  $2200 and 
>>>it's a piece of s**t.  My HP zv6131 runs rings around it 
>>>for half the price.  Even my 3GX doesn't suck as much. :)
>>
>>That's interesting, because when I helped manage a fleet of laptops, the
>>IBMs were among the most reliable.
> 
> 
> I agree with you.
> All computers fail, especially laptops, but IBM's tend to be "less 
> unreliable" than others == better design.
> 
> I'm NOT counting their crappy harddrives, which they sold to Hitachi, 
> which continues to produce the same crap.
> (The Travelstars are dying one after the other here)

In my experience:

Travelstar == Deskstar == Crap;
Ultrastar != Crap;

Peace...  Sridhar