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Re:Why HP Fell by madengr on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:23AM (#17799330)
Ditto. I’ll never buy another HP product. They are now the purveyors of garbage computers and printers. The mid 90’s printers, scanners, and Apollo workstations were the pinnacle of quality. The 85xx line of test equipment was even beyond that. I don’t think something like those would even be attempted now.

The true HP is Keysight, though they have quality issues now.

The tile floors were to find small parts when dropped, and minimize dust and static electricity. The computer jockeys were in the wrong.

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Re:Why HP Fell by specialist on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:32AM (#17799718)
In the 90s, HP engineers used to visit our offices, just to see how we used their gear. Printers, large format plotters, workstations, networking, etc. They'd cold call me, arrange visits, hang out for a while.

I'd see how they take our feedback and improve their products.

I don't think I've loved another brand as much as I loved HP, back in the day.

Alas, things change.

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Re:Why HP Fell by joezydeco on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:13PM (#17801147)
Except the computer jockeys probably wanted carpeting to cut down on the noise.

It's insanely hard to concentrate in an open-office bullpen with every surface being a hard noise-reflective one.

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Re:Why HP Fell by eropple on Monday August 20, 2018 @11:08AM (#17800574)
The HP Spectre 13 is emphatically not garbage. Beautiful machine, great screen, good keyboard. If the keyboard was a little better, and if their support was a little more sane, I would still be using the one I traded in for a ThinkPad T480.
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