I admit to having an H-P. I bought it in 2003. We are shopping, and talking and thinking. Probably won’t do anything until this unit dies one las time.

Me too: in the pre-Intel Mac days I kept a gaming computer around (a PC), originally a Sony, then a Dell, finally an HP (H-P, sorry). They all worked pretty much as you’d suspect, other than the fact that the H-P had space for a “Personal Drive” (basically an external hard drive that fitted into a slot in the CPU) which made it a real pain to deal with internally.