[QUOTE=TheXeon;16984020]all their laptops overheat.[/QUOTE]
Only because you put the laptop on a soft surface.
no, their fans melt their boards more easier etc.
Funny, I just got an HP Deskjet F435 and it works fine.
I only buy Samsung monitors, great quality; when they do break (not very often) they are covered by a 3-year manufacturer's warranty. Also every time you send a product in for service they extend the warranty by 3 months.
Service under the warranty is free BTW.
I agree here, my family have had multiple incidents with HP over the past 5 or so years. Their technicians are often inaudible or stupid, their drivers as mentioned earlier are terrible, and they do tend to try restricting you.
We've had around 4 or so HP computers/laptops which have gone wrong/needed repair in the warranty, and we've generally had issues with HP in getting a repair.
And this is why I now build all our computers myself. - (I avoid laptops if possible)
[QUOTE=Odellus;16965957]I would buy an Alienware over HP (at least they are high quality.)[/QUOTE]
Alienware aren't particularly good either, I know two people at college who hate their Alienware computers and have had crazy problems with them in the past.
Whilst they do get repairs when in need, these often take multiple months, and generally break again soon after. My friend was pretty annoyed too when he ordered his Alienware laptop to find that the case wasn't the "Ribbed" one he chose (Not that it's a big deal), and his hard drive failed a couple times during college last year.
At the end of the day, you're just handing over all that money for a popular brand-name to be printed on it.
[QUOTE=TheXeon;16984020]all their laptops overheat.[/QUOTE]
Sure, if you store in outside during the summer and block each and every air duct.
But I've had no problems installing 17 laptops at the same time right next to eachother in a typical room, so I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that.
My sound in my laptop was fried after I received a static shock through my earphones into my ears! Ever since the built in speakers don't work and if you use external speakers/headphones only the left side plays.
Called them up and found out it would cost $446 to replace, fuck that I'll just get a new laptop when the time comes or this one dies completly
Pavilion Dv9230 got it in 2007
Yeah HP/Compaq seems to be concentrating more on quantity instead of quality. Makes sense, because shitloads of really big corporations use their computers, printers, scanners, etc.
I've had a hp 7500 17" CRT for like 5 years and it's still perfectly working. Also I had an identical monitor with a Compaq logo on it for even longer and it was good also. Except for the fact that they don't support resolutions bigger than 1152x768 with a refresh rate of 70 or more, instead it drops to 60 after that. And the Vista CRT drivers are crippled shit, so now I have to settle for 1024x768, because they don't seem to support over 60Hz on bigger resolutions. Fortunately it's only my secondary monitor.
But, my father bought some cheap HP laptop like 2-3 years ago and the WLAN drivers that came with it were crap. Every once in a while when I had the WLAN-switch turned on the laptop would just suddenly halt and the screen was filled of these brown/yellow vertical stripes. After I got updated drivers from the WLAN-card manufacturers site, it never happened again.
Anyway I made the decision to not buy computers from corporations like HP/Compaq or Fujitsu Siemens ages ago, when I got sick of my Compaq desktop computer when I was like 12 or something. Besides, anyone who buys a computer for playing games from those corps is an idiot.
I will not buy a package deal that includes some companys custom made motherboards or ANY other pieces of hardware except maybe cases. AlienWare is fine though overpriced, but so are probably any package deals with good hardware.
The good things about package deals are:
[list]
[*]The packages have been tested (if not, CRAP COMPANY), that all the hardware is compatible with eachother.
[*]No need to build it yourself.
[*]You can just send the whole thing to the company if it breaks (although the duration of the warranty probably goes by the piece of hardware in it that has the shortest warranty or something like that).
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[QUOTE=The Pro;16967137]They also put torx screws on their new printers to make it harder for you to actually own the hardware.
(this includes things such as replacing parts, modding it or cleaning the underside of the scanner glass, all of which they make it hard for you to do)[/QUOTE]
What? You're saying that they are deliberately making it harder for you to self-service the printer by using a [b]standard[/b] type of screws? At least say that it's Security TORX. They are only discouraging home-repair, because it could be dangerous. It's only meant to be repaired by the educated service personnel.
i used to have an hp laptop that isn't even 2 years old. on november 5th, 2008, this occurred:
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supposedly, the graphics chipset was defective and had a high chance of overheating or failing or some shit like that. basically it was fubar. after a couple weeks of trying to get hp support to cooperate with me and apathy, i was able to send my laptop to hp. i got my laptop back a month after it failed. everything was fine and dandy...
until around june when it broke again with the exact same problem. i guess they didn't even bother to replace the old gpu with a non-defective one.
My mom had an HP and it would blue screen every five minutes. Eventually she just reformatted EVERYTHING and I had to re-install Vista for her.
Damn good she paid me for it too
:george::george:
[QUOTE=bobste;16955693]i have a 22" hp lcd monitor and i've never had problems with it[/QUOTE]
exactly what i was going to post. 22" n' everything.
I've had it for a good 1year now, nothing has happened to it and it is working perfectly.
My sister has got a HP monitor. NEver had problems.
But I prefer ASUS or SAMSUNG.... THey provide me with a better feeling
My HP wireless printer freezes up constantly and will at times refuse to print even after repeated restarts of both it and the computer.
Usually I'll turn it on a few days later and 50 pages of what I was previously trying to print will shoot out.
I own a [url=http://www.hardwarecentral.com/graphics/screenshots/1116964960466hpav440.jpg]HP zv6000[/url]. It is incredibly outdated by today's standards (in my opinion), and is a bitch when trying to enjoy fairly new ( if new) game. Now, I haven't had any problems with customer support or anything, but I can see from what I've read here that it's a bitch dealing with them.
Gonna build my next computer.
Hp was better a few years ago
My mother has this once $2000 HP laptop with a 1.66Ghz dual-core processor (not for gaming) and it still runs fine to this day
This was bought back when Half-life 2 was the "New rad game with awesome physics"
My ASUS gaming laptop has ten times more problems
[QUOTE=Initial D;17130744]Hp was better a few years ago
My mother has this once $2000 HP laptop with a 1.66Ghz dual-core processor (not for gaming) and it still runs fine to this day
This was bought back when Half-life 2 was the "New rad game with awesome physics"
My ASUS gaming laptop has ten times more problems[/QUOTE]
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop#Major_brands_and_manufacturers"]There are only a few companies that actually make laptops, just about every company just re-brands and re-sells them.[/url]
[QUOTE=maxolina;17128176]My sister has got a HP monitor. NEver had problems.
But I prefer ASUS or SAMSUNG.... THey provide me with a better feeling[/QUOTE]
There are only a few companies that actually make LCD panels, you pay for the enclosure, the warranty and the customer service.
[QUOTE=Spoco;17104875]
What? You're saying that they are deliberately making it harder for you to self-service the printer by using a [b]standard[/b] type of screws? At least say that it's Security TORX. They are only discouraging home-repair, because it could be dangerous. It's only meant to be repaired by the educated service personnel.[/QUOTE]
Did you wake up this morning and think "I wish someone would figure out a way to make me able to do less with my electronics"?
Torx is not a "standard" type of screw.
It was created to make it harder for people to repair things, so that they would have a higher chance of buying a new one and getting rid of the old one, making more money for the corporation.
It is much harder to make your own driver compaired to screws such as philips and flathead.
[QUOTE=Spoco;17104875]It's only meant to be repaired by the educated service personnel.[/QUOTE]
Do you take your car to the dealership to get an oil change?
Are you one of those "educated service personnel"?
There is no such thing as educated service personnel
They are idiots with a handbook and a screwdriver
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