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HP Jornada Refund
theguy writes: "HP is offering a refund for dissatisfied Jornada owners. Hooray, I'm a big HP fan and its good to see some of the big ones listen." Check out the original news bit we wrote about this, if you're just tuning in.
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Are they then subsequently offering refunds on refurb units that were returned by original refund-seekers?
It's good to see a big company taking responsibility for its actions. It seems like nobody, people, government, or corporate, feels like having an ounce of honor these days and making things right when they have done wrong. Way to go HP!
Eh...
Most laptops claim a full 16 bit color range but in all honesty most flat screen technologies are not capably of that fine color control, for HP to stand up and admit that their marketing exaggerated the capabilities of their hardware is really quite refreshing. After all what is being discussed is just 1 bit of color accuracy per color component.
4000 colors? Who could possibly need that much! 16 colors and 32k of ram should be enough for any man.
Hp's stock had a nice little jump yesterday -- it'd been on the decline for a bit, perhaps this had something to do with it?
-- build a man a fire and he'll be warm all day. set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Four thousand colors
That PDA is not new
Its an Amiga
Beowulf/Jornada Haiku
H-P jornadas
make slow beowulf clusters
and have funny screens.
But do not, under any circumstances, allow the Prince of Darkness onto your PC.
I really liked the slow sales bit on the Palm 3c. What I really love about the palm is it's simplicity and the paradigm that it doesn't do a helluva lot of things, but what it does it does right. As an independant consultant I track my hours on that Palm and I'd just hate to see $ 10k flushed down the drain for the ability to watch Mpeg videos, listen to Metallica songs or, for that mather, have some thousand colors on my PDA.
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
Perhaps I'm misreading the Netscape Article. I hope so. What do they mean by "a glitch prevented the use of all 65000 colors", when later on they talk about a 12-bit controller? Sounds to me like they got caught lying, never expecting consumers to notice. That's why I hope I'm wrong.
Accidentally designing all of your hardware around a 12-bit controller is not a glitch. Claiming a 12-bit controller can produce 65000 colors cannot entirely be an accident.
-Paul Komarek
tcd004
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What microsoft has on these people to make them only support Windows CE. Hewlett Packard made one of the best palmtop PCs - the 200LX - and never upgraded or went anywhere with this little monster. I had one for many years until it passed away :). My palm is nice, but the LX wasn't much better, and with native DOS support, it even ran Turbo C++!!
What I ask is why, oh why, can't HP apply their excellent engineering and the AWESOME tactile feel keys to a machine that runs linux, or at the very least, a new version of the 200LX? I'm sure there's a pent up demand for a machine like that from the geeks out there. My palm pro is a nice organizer. What I'd like is something that's light and has more power - and runs linux. (In one of those hpc form factors - and the Sony Picturebook is several thousand dollars, way outta whack).
Wake up and smell the coffee. Business users aren't going to make these things a success. Geeks are. Make a kick-butt PIM package like came on the 200LX (yet to be surpassed IMHO) and support a standard OS like DOS or Linux, and the world of engineers who lustly covet their 48G's will beat a path to your door.
Now that HP is going to have all of these returned machines, wouldn't it be a great opportunity to sell 'em all, maybe at a tidy profit?
Kudos
..don't panic
They are the only company that I know that will offer a trade in on old equipment. For a while on their large format printers/plotters, they would even accept competitor products, such as Calcomp and Epson, as trade ins!
They always have been willing to make the customer happy. Good to see they aren't trying to cover up, and admit when they are wrong.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
A lot more stores used to be more lenient about this kind of thing, until people started abusing it. Want a good laptop to write your term paper on? No problem, just go buy one, then return it after finals week, saying you weren't happy with it. After being victimized by things like this one too many times (kinda like when Slashdot was encouraging people to sign up for MSN and immediately drop it, pocketing whatever was bought with the $400 voucher), stores these days are a lot less enthusiastic about giving their customers the benefit of the doubt. Thanks to people like the above, most stores have big restocking fees if you decide to return something. Go see how much fun it is to return something to ChumpUSA these days.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Because it was free (we got 5 of them in their switch promotion - and the HP4000 switch rocks). I'm hacking around with one, and I gave the other ones to my staff. It's not a bad little unit. The screen may not be 16-bit, but it's more than good enough for AvantGo browsing and e-book reading (which, along with Inbox sync, is all I do with it). I use the HP a decent amount during the work day.
My Palm Vx, though, is still much handier because:
It's half the size of the HP. Even though the HP does fit in a pocket (barely), it's a lot heavier than the Palm.
It's faster for most tasks (except offline browsing).
The battery life is much better (though the HP isn't as bad as I expected - I can easily get through a couple of workdays before it needs a recharge).
I can sync the Palm with my iBook and my Linux box - not just with Windows.
And finally:
Palm isn't Microsoft!
- -Josh Turiel
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."