HP makes damn good servers.
I buy around a hundred HP desktop computers a year for the credit union I work for. I am generally very pleased with them, aside from a persistent glitch in their displayport output. Most last our four year rotation with no physical issues at all. We then resell them to our employees after rotation, and they continue to perform for years.
I am very satisfied with HP’s quality, and I’d wager that my sample size is far higher than all of you put together. I can understand being frustrated when your primary computer is a lemon, but that’s bound to happen to every manufacturer from time to time.
I think I would have gone with “God, HP stuff is junk” myself.
Although I have had HP laptops and had nothing but good experiences with them since my first thinkpad back in 95. Actually it is still chugging along over at a friends house. I gave it to him, he uses it as an itunes server for his house.
I did have a pre HP compaq desktop, it is still chugging along when I bother to power it up. We currently have a couple HP Firebird 802s that are happily running the current crop of MMORPGs, and a pair of dv7s as well. I am currently surfing the net and playing eve online in bed on my dv7 right now. Well and watching destination truth hoping someone breaks something or they find the monster. Either one would work.
Bah too late to edit, I meant to say after my thinkpad died in 95 … I need more coffee:smack:
Standalone, possibly, but their p-class server enclosures sure were junk. The server blades would short out when you removed them from the enclosure, the power supplies cooked off, it wasn’t pretty.
And don’t get me started on the nightmare that’s the Flex-10 network module in the c-class enclosure.
When I saw the title, I though God stuffed HP up his Junk (or something like that). Anyway, I am a former HP employee that was split off with Agilent, but I still feel a little bit of the corporate pride even though the HP way is long dead. I bought two HP laptops and two HP desktops as an employee and had no problems. I did always buy refurbished units though. Refurbished units were more likely to be in good shape as they get a bit of loving from people with a slightly higher technical skill level and are quite a bit cheaper.
These days I go with Toshiba or Apple for my laptops and can’t think of any reason to buy a desktop machine…
After HP’s tech support told my M-I-L to reinstall her OS from 14 floppies for the second time, she had me take it way and accepted my offer of an ancient iMac. She’s been happily problem-free ever since.
Since we are talking mainly about their Laptops…try buying a hundred laptops and see what happens… most likely, you wont reach the same level of satisfaction…
Right…well…since someone from HP is actually reading this thread…
No, I didn’t have a lot of money, but I had enough to buy a decent HP laptop a couple of years ago. I actually paid more for it than I strictly should have, but I got a good deal on a good sale and the reviews were okay. Mixed, I would say. However, the reviews were all made within the first six months of ownership.
About nine months after I bought it the motherboard died. Spent a LOT of time with customer service (“My motherboard is dead.” “Have you taken the battery out and restarted?” “Yes, like I said to a hundred people already.”)
I sent it to get fixed, the laptop came back A MONTH LATER AND IT STILL DIDN’T WORK. Sent it back, came back two weeks later, and it worked!
Four months later (outside the year warranty) the motherboard died AGAIN. HP refused to fix it again, wouldn’t refund my money. They said it was the supplier who should refund. I talked to the supplier, they said they weren’t aware of the original defect (since I dealt with HP directly) and they wouldn’t refund my money either.
So I put the dead laptop away and I won’t ever buy another HP anything. Like I say, I don’t have a lot of money at the moment (although the situation will change), and I can’t afford to waste it on lemon products. It’s been a couple of years, but I am still furious about the way it was treated. HP should have given me a laptop without defects at the first sign of trouble and never should have left me without a laptop for a month.