Hp has improved Compaq quite a bit from what it once was. I love alot of HP's higher end products (mainly test equipment), but would say go with the E. I am currently running a E-Machine 333 as a firewall with a Smoothwall distro on it. I have recommended them to several freinds and the only problems I have encoutered with them is years ago one had a power supply die, but they replaced the entire machine for the pserson and even upgraded it (although they had a choise of them sending them a new PS and letting them install it). And had a hard drive go out on one about 2 months ago but not bad for a 3-4 year old pc.
I have see and repaired so many more compaq's, and when i used to work at Circuit City there were more returns/complaints about them.
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