HP laid a huge egg with their attempt at a tablet using their own OS instead of Android 4. That was as bad a debacle as the RIMM tablet. Let me add from personal experience HP Laptops are crap. One died because the motherboard “melted”, a common problem with the model I had, and the other one I owe works but you can hear the cooling fan reeving up all the time.
They may have laid an even bigger egg by flushing their tablet inventory at sub-$200 prices, and playing stop and go with their PC business. I still can't figure out what the last chairman (Apotheker) was thinking.
Desktops no better . Trouble from Day 1 . Sent back to Tokyo for 3 major repairs ( within the first year ) and they would not replace the computer . Working okay now but I’ve had to disenable the touchscreen , wireless mouse , and a few other things in order to have stability . Never again .
I don't think it's so much that they used their own OS, as they used an OS that did not include many of the basic functions that Android and Apple users take for granted. Putting out hardware based on a feature-starved OS that was essentially crippleware was not a smart move.
That was as bad a debacle as the RIMM tablet. Let me add from personal experience HP Laptops are crap. One died because the motherboard “melted”, a common problem with the model I had, and the other one I owe works but you can hear the cooling fan reeving up all the time.
I've had terrible experiences with HP desktops and laptops alike. One laptop used an Nvidia chip that needed to be compressed with several heat-resistant faucet washers sandwiched between the keyboard cover and the motherboard in order for the chip to make contact with the motherboard - a post-warranty repair dreamed up by some enterprising end user. This was supposedly a business class laptop.
Ditto!
I have that won’t even make a good boat anchor.
I’ve had similar experiences with HP laptops. Their printers used to be good, too, but I’ll never buy one again. I just replaced a not-old (only four years old, maybe?) OfficeJet Pro that couldn’t print for crap with an Epson that cost about half of what I paid for the HP and it works perfectly.
I participate in am OEM relationship with HP. We resell ~$50M a year in HP servers. The only thing HP has left (IMO)that's worth a tinkers damn is Compaq heritage product and process and some DEC lineage. "HP" as we know it from the old days brought nothing to today's HP; it was all sold w/ Allegiant (sp). The consumer grade HP laptops are just OK; my Pavillion dm4 is nice, quiet and cool. The Compaq lineage commercial laptops much better, but lagging in leading edge features. The DL3XX series servers are still high quality; best price to value in commercial grade servers. Imaging products are all made by Flextronics and as good as most.
I recently got an HP with an AMD quad core laptop. I love the thing. It has quad speaker, fingerprint scanner, an IOS system and more. I paid less that $400 for it. It’s about two months old and works like a champ.
Do you have a laptop cooler? They’re cheap and very useful. The one I have is old and loud, but a lot of the time I don’t even turn the fan on - it seems to be enough to have it sitting over the vents to let the heat out.
“Let me add from personal experience HP Laptops are crap.”
Indeed HP laptops are crap, and always have been. Absolute, unmitigated, and total crap. I think even the compaqs are better laptops than the HPs, at least before HP nabbed them.
I’m a PC specialist, and I see more dead and dying HP laptops than practically all other brands put together. Melted motherboards, individual dying chips, fragile mobo power connectors, you name it.
I always STRONGLY advise my customers to stay the hell away from HP laptops. The HP desktops are much better than their laptops, but believe it or not, Dell actually gives better service than HP.
And I’m no fan of HP printers either. Until recently, HP printers installed the most amazing amount of unstable, useless, and crappy software imaginable. Software that frequently caused system instability. And since the HP printers die all the time, people just buy another one, and install its garbage software on top of the old stuff, not knowing they need to remove the old crap. After about 3 HP printers, your PC isn’t going to work anymore.
On my rim playbook now, love it. My second one, kids cracked the first one.
Funny you mention that. I've never owned an HP laptop until my division was purchased by a much larger (household name) company. I was issued a new, top of the line HP laptop by this outfit (EliteBook 8540w); essentially a mobile workstation.
I always set laptops to hibernate when the lid is closed. However, I'd close this one, stick in my computer bag, take off somewhere for biz.......and when I'd get it out of the bag it'd be as hot as a griddle. I mean you could fry eggs on the thing.
I now go to Start, Shut Down, Hibernate to force it into hibernation. That seems to work.
I've never seen this problem before on ANY laptop.
Pandigital and HP share the same phone number to a room in India or Thailand or somewhere for customer service.
I got a cheapie Pandigital Tablet and what a piece of junk. They replaced it and it took 3 months to get a new one (said 3 weeks in the booklet, but that was a”mistake-should say 4-8 BUSINESS WEEKS!” she told me)
4-8 business WEEKS? That’s a long freakin time. But you can press 3 for HP this, 4 for HP that...
And another collapse coming soon-Capital One just bought all of SEARS credit card accts issued by HSBC.
Hmmmmm....