I'm strangely not surprised with HP and their actions (in this case, a lack there of). It reminds me of the Bose issue a year or so back with their products.

And the impact in which HP is going to experience - is nothing. Most people still to this day really don't care/understand on why this is a problem. They just want to get a computer for school, General internet surfing or watch cat videos. (Cat and Dog videos are quite interesting.)