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HP Keeping Their PC Business
First time accepted submitter yourlord writes "Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to keep its PC division. So says its newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman, the former eBay chieftain, categorically rejected a plan offered up by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker, to either sell or spin-off this division. HP announced the decision after the close of financial markets today."
Does this mean that they will be reviving the TouchPad?
During the auction, no one met the reserve price.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
The AC would have said more in his post, but the PSU/AC Adapter in his hp went out...
again...
Are you sure it wasn't the defective nVidia chipset blowing out again after being sent in twice already for repair?
I popped an Ubuntu CD in one and after about 20 minutes was rewarded with a fine running laptop loaded with goodness. Problems like that are so easily solved.
Who cares about such crap? I formatted my HP laptop without even booting the preinstalled copy of Vista.
In terms of what really matters - the hardware and price - it's a nice machine for what I paid.
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As I said in an earlier post, HP needs their PC's to get leverage to sell their two strongest product lines, laser printers and inkjet cartridges. I have no use for inkjet cartridges, but every HP laser printer I've owned, from high end to low end, has been an absolutely solid piece of machinery.
The business plan that caused the previous CEO to be fired has been rejected by the incoming CEO. I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
HP certainly shot themselves in the foot with this. Who in their right mind would consider a HP computer if even they aren't confident about them?
"Careful! We don't want to learn from this!" -Calvin & Hobbes
Explaining the joke. HP was founded on one product. A bench DC power supply. They (H and P) came up with a clever use of a light bulb in their regulator circuit. The details escape me.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
They make crap laden with bloatware and unnecessary background applications running incessantly, phoning home and creating all manner of 'functionality' that nobody can turn off,
I have a Probook 4530s that I am extremely satisfied with. As regards the crapware, I simply camped out in Programs and Features for about 1.5 hours as I read a book, and now have a clean setup. Some of those programs are actually pretty nice too, like the ability to see battery level at the EFI boot screen, and the baked in miniature Linux-based fast-boot OS (though I havent used it really at all).
And given how cheap it is for a really nice laptop (mine was under $500), it seems kind of odd to complain about the bloatware. Why do you suppose the prices are so low? Are you willing to pay $50 more for a crapware-free pc (if so, please give me a call, I will happily clean your PC for you remotely for $50--it really doesnt take that much effort). Also keep in mind that you are probably buying consumer laptops, which pretty much universally (Lenovo, Acer, Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell) come loaded with crap. If you want a crap-free pc, you can cough up for the higher-end business models, and get a much nicer build to boot (Dell Latitudes, etc).
I won't support any HP product as long as leading TeaBagger Meg Whitman is in the leadership of HP.
Explaining the joke. HP was founded on one product. A bench DC power supply. They (H and P) came up with a clever use of a light bulb in their regulator circuit. The details escape me.
No. The first HP product was an audio oscillator (the 200A). Used to make the movie Fantasia. The light bulb was used for negative feedback, its resistance changing as the current changed.
It was an audio signal generator based on a Wein Bridge oscillator that used a light bulb for amplitude stabilisation.