Leo Laporte said it a couple of weeks ago, and I say it now. HP stuff is junk.
Laptop: Hard drive fails just weeks out of warranty. Replaced at my expense. Fan is now failing, making grinding noises. Now the optical drive is doa. Battery was never any good, but despite a massive recall, my particular battery seems not to be covered. Holds about five minutes worth of charge now. Fucking junk. Abject crap.
It is fucking sad. They used to make the best stuff on earth. There are still Laserjet 1’s in service. I still have my 32s RPN calculator.
Seriously, Stan, when you’re wanting to use the word God as a profanity to begin a rhetorical sentence that contains a “be” verb as the second word, do please try to remember punctuation, mkay?
I also had the damnedest time parsing your subject line. Then I realized after reading your OP that what you actually meant was “God, is HP stuff JUNK!” or something thereabouts.
I’m the opposite. I’ve never had a problem. Over the years, I’ve switched most of the stuff around me over to HP. I currently sitting in an office with 3 HP computers and an HP laser printer. None of which have had any problems. The forth computer will be replaced with an HP as soon as it kicks the bucket (or I kick it’s bucket, I’m getting sick of it). I’ve tried a few other brands over the years, but I always seem to come back to HP.
I have an HP laptop at home that I like.
I have my parents on an HP computer at their house with an HP laser printer.
No hardware problems in quite a few years of running HP (consumer grade) equipment.
I have a couple of HP laptops and my PC at work is an HP. I haven’t had any problems with the computers themselves. My only beef with them so far is horrible customer service, even for non-technical issues. They sold me an extended warranty and then turned around and said my laptop wasn’t eligible. Trying to get my money back was such a hassle I finally gave up.
As for the actual OP, I haven’t had any issues with HP gear. I build my own desktops, so I can’t speak for those, but I’ve had two laptops from them and both are still kickin’. One is 5 years old and the other is 3 years old. The older one’s HDD died after 5 years but costed ~$50 to replace it.
We currently have two HP printers set up, because the old workhorse that we thought might need to be replaced just hasn’t decided to die yet. It’s only going on thirteen years now. It is a little noisy lately, but the problem that made us think it was on its way out seems to have resolved itself.
We did set up the new one because we needed the scanner. So it’s getting the bulk of the work now. I plan to keep running the old one until it does totally die, though, because I hate the thought of losing the fairly new cartridges in it.
And a bit off topic, but the OP hit one of my recent hot buttons. Your HP laptop might be a piece of junk. It might be the Mondayest or Fridayest of laptops ever produced. But IT’S JUST ONE LAPTOP! IT’S NOT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE! JUST BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO YOU DOESN’T MEAN IT HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY, EVERY TIME!!
I won’t buy an HP anything. Printer, Computer, Laptop, tennis racket … Whatever they are selling, I’m not buying it.
This simple rule was enacted soon after I bought the last piece of low quality PC shit that I will ever own after declaring I would never own one because of the previous piece of shit HP product that I owned.
It was a laser printer and for some strange reason it defied typical HP protocol and actually worked well and had toner cartridges which were reasonably priced. Unfortunately I replaced the computer it was attached to with a new Windows 7 computer. That was two years ago and even though the printer was less than 2 months old HP somehow never got around to issuing a driver for it to work on a Windows 7 computer.
So the one lousy functioning piece of HP equipment that I own is not compatible with anything. All of the other lousy POS HP products that I own ARE compatible but quit working because they are TYPICAL POS HP products.
Do yourself a favor - Avoid HP products like the plague
I actually didn’t figure it out until I read the explanation. I was thinking along the lines of “God is dead,” “God is HP stuff junk,” “HP stuff junk is dead.” Not sure why my brain didn’t try to insert the comma. :smack:
As somebody who’s had the misfortune of buying a HP laptop, sending it in three times for repairs, getting a replacement, and sending that in for repairs three times, and constructs rambling sentences such as this, I managed to parse the title correctly on the first try.
Not sure why my brain didn’t try to insert the comma. :smack: