no. Compaq sucks, its owned by HP. and HP really sucks. my Compaq was great at first, but the day after the warranty ended it had a hardware failure because of excessive heat. HP wouldn't spare a few bucks to build better thermal design into my laptop. my brother's laptop (also HP) suffered a graphics card melt down about 1/2 a year after he bought it. by the time the 2 year warranty was up the heatsinks & hardware has been services 5 times.
so poor thermal design, cheap parts, overall poor quality is not unknown to HP/Compaq.
the laptops also comes with crapware, which is useless junk you'd never need, it loads on start up every time and loads down the computer, uses up the resources and slows hte whole system down. worse, it can be hard to remove becasue
A: some of it doesn't come out in one go, its like a virus- very hard to remove
B: you can't tell whether its a important system/hardware program or its some crappy junk
C: you can't uninstall it unless you're in safe mode / you're not the admin even tho you're the admin.

Macs are different.
1 the operating system is way better than PC. its more efficient with resources and doesn't load down the computer.
2 all modern macs have been properly designed and made to a strict set of engineering controls set in place by apple
3 cosmetic (looks) are not before function & design. (most PCs look good- its to cover up shoddy construction and cutting corners on things like quality control & good thermal design)
4 the hardware is designed to work with a specific type of software, and vise versa for software, it will work with only a few kinds of hardware. this eliminates common compatibility issues found in PC systems.

how to fix your laptop and you don't have money to buy a new PC:
downgrade to windows XP. transfer files you want to save to a cd/dvd/flash drive, obtain a legal copy of windows XP, install windows XP on the computer after a full format of the hard drive.
^^ prior to install, its a good idea to get the various drivers you will need- such as the audio driver, wifi/network driver, webcam/mic driver, video driver. you may not have access to the internet immediately following the reinstall of windows. having the drivers available on a flash drive would make it so much easier.
&& also review, study up on how to reformat & install windows on a computer, its not really a complex process but sometimes things do go wrong, if you know some background info about it you're less likely to run into a problem you can't solve.

i had a POS Compaq laptop. its a piece of sh!t.
my brother had a HP laptop, and that was a piece of sh!t too.
i have been fixing & working with computers for many years. I have reformatted & installed windows on computers many many times. its not a complex process, not with XP anyway.
I have also de-crapifed 5 netbooks/laptops recently. that is to remove the crap ware & programs that all netbooks & laptops come with. stuff that makes your computer suck from day 1.
my brother owns a mac. i have a pc (desktop & netbook). my desktop & the mac has the same hardware, but the mac works probably 4X better. why Microsoft windows sucks.

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