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Comment Re:HP really needs to get it right now... (Score 1) 36

Consumers don't want to pay what it costs to produce decent hardware, so it's a race to the bottom. HP is no exception to market forces.

Thanks for the accurate fix. Maybe i'm bad at judging good hardware but i own 2 samsung laptops (the newer has less that a month, the older 3 years) with no issues... even after i usually run heavy simulations on them. That stability along the years has made me trust samsung more than HP and i don't think they are racing to the bottom.

Comment HP really needs to get it right now... (Score 1) 36

I've been always an HP fan, so i'm sad to say this.

Long history short, HP really need to focus on a market they can serve well. Let it be big data software or hardware, but they need to hurry since they already have lost a lot of revenue over the years and some big projects didn't go well (such as HP tablets). Sadly if this adquisition is so known to be a "fraud" there will be less demand for those Big Data tools or they will have to set lower prices.

The sad thing is that HP is really sloppy at hardware right now. I bought a HP laptop (a DV6 envy) very powerful and pretty (i was delighted by the design), BUT with windows 8. I thought "just buy it and then unistall that piece of malware" so i did buy it. BTW i tried to use W8, but i just failed to turn it off properly, (how in the world the shutdown options are in the charm bar at the desktop under "Settings"!!), to get rid of those pesky apps, to make the Metro less bloated and a lot of etc.

After one hour of looking for a way to disable UEFI (some shady forums helped me actually) and boot from a windows 7 dvd (changing the order of the boot devices doesn't work) i tried for what it seems an hour to install windows 7. At the very last step i had an error of incompatible hardware. I just went mad, i don't get it how an OS that isn't old (last year was the most advanced windows OS) was incompatible with a brand new laptop. I asked for a refund so i got a samsung instead (not that pretty but the inside is what it counts).

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