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As an aside, does anyone remember the last time they were happy with ANY HP product? Everytime I see that logo I get chills knowing what a pain in the ass it'

As an aside, does anyone remember the last time they were happy with ANY HP product? Everytime I see that logo I get chills knowing what a pain in the ass it's going to be. Edit: I am specifically thinking about HPSM, and HPNA here.

tiatia 10y ago
HP48?
ptaipale 10y ago
I'm using 820, 840 and 725 laptops which in my opinion offer a good balance of price and performance. At least they did when I last bought them and I compared to what I could find on the market. There's something funny with some Linux kernel versions, which shows up as kacpid hogging up a lot of CPU time, but you can disable it by echoing disable to the /proc filesystem. You may find such issues with very many laptops. But the physical and ergonomic things are very OK, considering the price, with these laptops.
gaius 10y ago
HP 3000's and 9000's were decent. Still use my HP 12C too!
sveiss 10y ago
The hardware labs at uni had a couple of ancient (to us -- probably 80s hardware being used in the mid-2000s?) HP logic analyzers with Z80 bus probes. They turned out to be much more reliable and easier to use than the modern USB pod things also provided which plugged into a Windows box to display the analysis traces.
CydeWeys 10y ago
I have an HP Chromebook 13" that's been pretty good so far. That's an official collaboration with Google being the driving force behind the specs and HP being responsible for the manufacturing, though, so it isn't really comparable to their printer line.
proactivesvcs 10y ago
My HP Compaq 8510w mobile workstation died two weeks ago. Had it since about 2009 and it has enjoyed at least 10,000 miles in a bicycle pannier. I had to replace a screen hinge a few years back and that's all. As for their consumer-grade laptops over that same period - having had to repair so many, replace year-old batteries and AC adapters I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole.
copperx 10y ago
HP calculators are awesome and more rugged than TI's.
- mark-r 10y ago
  Is there a good use case for physical calculators in this day and age? An app on your phone can replace one entirely.
  - copperx 10y ago
    I have a calculator on my desk even though I have a smartphone with me and M-x calc is just a few keystrokes away. It saves a window switch when doing calculations, and the tactile feel of buttons reduces mistakes.
giardini 10y ago
dec0dedab0de: "As an aside, does anyone remember the last time they were happy with ANY HP product? " For the record, a company with which I consulted was very happy with the HP 1000/2100 series computers, and especially the exquisite keyboards that now-terminated HP employees once made, with tender loving care, for those computers. I suspect that one of these computers is stored safely in an underground cave somewhere awaiting it's rediscovery, alongside a somewhat-notorious VW beetle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA
- fuzzfactor 10y ago
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/HP_1000_E-Series_minicomputer.jpg/736px-HP_1000_E-Series_minicomputer.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/HP...
dreamcompiler 10y ago
I have several BC (Before Carly) HP products that are rock solid marvels of engineering. Everything AC is a rotten piece of junk. The company now called "HP" is an impostor; it's a sad ghoulish potemkin shadow of a once-great company.
lukaslalinsky 10y ago
I bought a HP laser printer (P1005) in 2008 or so and I'm still printing papers on it using the original toner cartridge. I was wondering for years when will it die, but it keeps printing. Couldn't be happier.

tiatia 10y ago

HP48?

ptaipale 10y ago

I'm using 820, 840 and 725 laptops which in my opinion offer a good balance of price and performance. At least they did when I last bought them and I compared to what I could find on the market. There's something funny with some Linux kernel versions, which shows up as kacpid hogging up a lot of CPU time, but you can disable it by echoing disable to the /proc filesystem. You may find such issues with very many laptops. But the physical and ergonomic things are very OK, considering the price, with these laptops.

gaius 10y ago

HP 3000's and 9000's were decent. Still use my HP 12C too!

sveiss 10y ago

The hardware labs at uni had a couple of ancient (to us -- probably 80s hardware being used in the mid-2000s?) HP logic analyzers with Z80 bus probes. They turned out to be much more reliable and easier to use than the modern USB pod things also provided which plugged into a Windows box to display the analysis traces.

CydeWeys 10y ago

I have an HP Chromebook 13" that's been pretty good so far. That's an official collaboration with Google being the driving force behind the specs and HP being responsible for the manufacturing, though, so it isn't really comparable to their printer line.

proactivesvcs 10y ago

My HP Compaq 8510w mobile workstation died two weeks ago. Had it since about 2009 and it has enjoyed at least 10,000 miles in a bicycle pannier. I had to replace a screen hinge a few years back and that's all. As for their consumer-grade laptops over that same period - having had to repair so many, replace year-old batteries and AC adapters I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole.

copperx 10y ago

HP calculators are awesome and more rugged than TI's.

mark-r 10y ago
Is there a good use case for physical calculators in this day and age? An app on your phone can replace one entirely.
- copperx 10y ago
  I have a calculator on my desk even though I have a smartphone with me and M-x calc is just a few keystrokes away. It saves a window switch when doing calculations, and the tactile feel of buttons reduces mistakes.

giardini 10y ago

dec0dedab0de: "As an aside, does anyone remember the last time they were happy with ANY HP product? " For the record, a company with which I consulted was very happy with the HP 1000/2100 series computers, and especially the exquisite keyboards that now-terminated HP employees once made, with tender loving care, for those computers. I suspect that one of these computers is stored safely in an underground cave somewhere awaiting it's rediscovery, alongside a somewhat-notorious VW beetle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA

fuzzfactor 10y ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/HP_1000_E-Series_minicomputer.jpg/736px-HP_1000_E-Series_minicomputer.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/HP...

dreamcompiler 10y ago

I have several BC (Before Carly) HP products that are rock solid marvels of engineering. Everything AC is a rotten piece of junk. The company now called "HP" is an impostor; it's a sad ghoulish potemkin shadow of a once-great company.

lukaslalinsky 10y ago

I bought a HP laser printer (P1005) in 2008 or so and I'm still printing papers on it using the original toner cartridge. I was wondering for years when will it die, but it keeps printing. Couldn't be happier.