[Ian Robinson]

I made the BIG MISTAKE of accepting a HP desktop as the settlement when my older generic desktop got fried in a storm.

Came with XP Home SP2 (wanted HP Pro SP2 but wasn't prepared to pay the extra to get it , I've XP Pro SP2 on my trusty Dell Inspirion ), came with NO OS disks , so first thing I did was to back it up on to DVDs.

I've had nothing trouble with the HP , the modem died (5 times in as many weeks) , the mother board died within 3 months , the video card stopped working the same time as the mother board dying.

I've never used the TV tuner card that came with the package , didn't want or need it .

HP has very poor quality control , and are not a patch on Dell .

I will never ever buy another HP anything , more bother than they are worth.

I point blank refuse to buy and downgrade to VISTA , XP works , and I will think long and hard about Windows 7 when it is released in a year or two.