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HP Regains Throne as Top PC Maker
Nick writes "HP is once again the leading PC manufacturer." From the article: "HP has snatched the PC crown from Dell's barely coherent clutches. It has taken HP close to three years to once again lead the market in worldwide PC sales. Under CEO Carly Fiorina and post Compaq, the company largely gave up on the tit-for-tat struggle with Dell for the PC top spot that had been so important to it over the years. Now it has reclaimed the #1 slot during the third quarter on the back of Dell's self-destruction. Overall, worldwide PC shipments hit 59.1m units in the third quarter - a 7 per cent rise from the same period last year, according to new data from Gartner. The US PC market, however, dipped 2 per cent, marking its first fall since mid-2002. Dell is particularly exposed to the US PC market, and it showed." Update: 10/20 16:37 GMT by Z : Switched link to a more current story.
Now that everyone knows that HP-hired goons will go through your garbage, sit outside your house, and take pictures of you & your family...it seems everybody thinks HP is great!
I look forward to Sony, Microsoft, and SCO trying this next...
Am using a Dell 233Mz w/ 64Mb RAM, 4 Gb SCSI disk running NT 4.0, service pack 6a. Has HP got anything that can beat that? I hate to get stuck on the upgrade treadmill, as you might notice...
Firefox, Notepad, & Popcorn are all I mostly use, anyhow.
Or is history actually repeating itself...
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Wow...Zonk, which drugs are you taking, and where did you get them?
Time to move on to something else.
I'll put ten bucks on ROTK winning best picture
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So... now that Dean has the nomination pretty much wrapped up, what do you guys think his chances are against Bush?
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With success like this, I think she can look forward to a long and exciting career!
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You guys laugh now, but I'll bet you'll be interested when they start posting articles from the future.
Dark Reflection
"Rather than waste another 4 hours on un-intelligible tech support, I bought my son another computer from a different manufacturer. It's worked flawlessly for the past 3 years""
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck.
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order.
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
Where were you when the voynix came?
You must be new here.
Although, to be fair, the rest of us don't read the articles either, so it doesn't usually matter.
Oh come on! Everyone who has ever bought a Dell product knows the difference lies in their customer service...
"Hello these ees 'Dan'...may I be of knowing and becoming on the eashew?"
I think Michael Dell should close the doors and return the money to the investors.
I think it's more likely that customers are deserting Dell (because their hardware is no unreliable that it causes small children to have nightmares and sysadmins to have psychotic, nightmare-inducing rampages) and HP just happened to be the next one down the list, so any reduction in Dell's sales will cause HP to become #1.