Newsflash: they already have.Posted on 01/05/2020 4:32:12 AM PST by NOBO2012
In case you have forgotten - or didn’t need to take note at the time - I would like to remind you again to never, ever buy a HP computer. I’m having another (major) computer problem. Less than 2 years old and I’ve already had it repaired once (to no avail) and then replaced under warranty. The new one worked for 8 months until this recent snafu. All of my issues have a common thread: drivers that will not load or load incorrectly. I’m as far from a techy as you could imagine and if I can diagnose the commonality in what is obviously an ongoing problem with their very expensive computer why can’t they fix it?
I can’t send it in for repair until we arrive in Park City sometime in the near future so until then I will have use my old computer which was having its own problems or I wouldn’t have replaced it in the first place. All of which is a long way of saying posts will be short for the foreseeable future as both my computers have gone berserk. If I didn’t know better I’d think they were Democrats.
Newsflash: they already have.
It would be nice if an under 2 year old computer could work half as well as an over 50 year old camera. I know, I know: they’re much more complicated.
On an objective basis, and despite all my griping, most things have actually gotten better over the past half century or so. But it is important to identify the exceptions.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I use Apple everywhere else but prefer the Win 10 now. Granted set up is a little cumbersome with the Win products but memory, video cards and drive options are state of the art and flexible.
If price is no object, then get Apple.
I usually keep an eye on remanufactured computers... models that have a good reputation... on Ebay. I periodically buy one, rip out Windows and install some version of Linux/Ubuntu. If you really think you may need to preserve Windows functionality you can dual-boot.
It doesn’t solve basic driver problems like the ones that you’re having. Those could be from cheap components that HP has chosen, BTW.
I’ve been a Dell user for years, but my next computer will not be a Dell.
As in most things in life, you get what you pay for.
If quality is no object, then buy a Mac. If reliability is no object, then buy a Mac. If lack of problems is no object, the buy a Mac. If ease of operation is no object, then buy a Mac. If smooth integration and compatibility of software, operating system and hardware are no object, then buy a Mac. Or if having chronic Windows freezing and crashing are not issues, then buy a Mac.
If the value-added of all of these items is not a problem, then the price is not the issue.
If price is the issue, then you can buy cheaper. Macs are not that much more expensive but they give you less problems over the life of the computer which is worth something in it's value.
If you like to belong to cults, buy a Mac.
It was the leaded gas that ate the plugs
Typical.
I mean who buys a computer without enough memory to do what they want to do with it? Only someone who doesn't know computers.
Trust me, I have dealt with similar complaints about Macs from people who don't like them and saying they are slow in doing a Google search is blatantly ridiculous. I think Apple can make a computer that can do a Google search without being slow doing it. You're making this stuff up.
If you don't like Apple or you don't like Macs, that's fine. But at least be honest that the reasons for your complaints lie somewhere else other than the product performance. Nobody believes you when you say that.
I found a refurbished business class hp Elitebook at NewEgg for $207 tax included. I5, 8GB RAM, 260 Gig SSD. Even has a fingerprint reader and DVDRW. This refurb unit was like new, no visible sign of wear. The only quibble is that it is a little heavier than the latest offerings from MacBook or Dell. At 207 dollars delivered I can live with that.
When you can’t figure out how to tie your shoes, buy a Mac.
In a practical sense that means no changing RAM, no changing hard drives. Unless you are very skilled, problems in either means your computer is scrap.
Only those techies who tinker with computers or make their own from parts really care about parting out computers with new parts.
I don't have an interest anymore in remaking my computer when it goes out. I used to add RAM or DIMM cards or even a fan or a drive when I had a G-5 tower. Lots of room to work in. But the new thin screen ones with computing parts in the monitor body, I'm not so interested.
Now when it comes to my 15 year old Toyota Tacoma pick up I use on the farm, I don't care what it looks like as long as it runs and provides me functional transportation. But I don't look at cars like I do computers.
I'm getting to the age where the purchase of green bananas is a critical decision. 😂
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