OT: Any Canadians head south of the border lately?

[Captain Kwok]

In my experience, I've found Compaqs to be quite decent, although for HPs I cannot say the same.

[Yimboli]

i don't know about judging component quality via the pc brand per se.... in fact I almost exclusively judge the quality of a component by the brand of the component, and the quality of the pc brand by the brands of components it uses. western digital hard drives have _never_ failed me. I keep my entire godly mp3 collection on a 250 gig western digital external I've had for 4 years now.