HP bought out Compaq some time ago. They are now one and the same. Though I would never buy a retail desktop for myself, I went with Dell for my daughter's laptop simply for ease of service and a good payment plan, so I would probably recommend to non-builders to go with Dell for a desktop (but get a model with a dedicated graphics card). My gaming laptop is a custom job from GenTech ( I wouldn't care to try building one).
Desktop: Intel i7 960 CPU @ 4.0GHz, EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI mobo, 12GB Corsair Dominator-GT 2000 DDR3 RAM, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Solid State Drive, Two WD 2TB SATA drives, 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked graphics cards in SLI, Coolermaster HAF X full tower case, OCZ ZX 1250w PSU, Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Laptop: MSI GT60-004US, 2x Seagate Momentus XT 750GB SSD Hybrid drives in RAID 0, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GeForce 670M 3GB graphics card, Networks 'Killer' N-1103 WLAN card
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