I'll second that. There was a time when I thought HP was a great
company making great products. Although they still make some excellent
high-end computers, their home and office desktops and laptops are
horrible. I have never dealt with a single HP computer that worked
right. Their outstanding lead in the printer business is a thing of the
past. There are now many companies making printers just as good, for a
hell of a lot less money. Occasionally I see Circuit City or another
retailer running a contest in which the prize is a HP computer. My remark
is always "Second prize is _two_ HP computers."
OTOH, all of the Compaq computers that I have dealt with have been
trouble free. I think their maintenance HDD partition and peripheral
BIOS/peripheral management is great. About the only thing that I don't
like is their extremely proprietary design. That's fine on enterprise
servers. It's inexcusable on a business desktop that someone actually has
to support in a small business environment.
Arthur Clark
At 11:45 AM 9/4/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>After swallowing DEC, I'm glad to see COMPAQ get swallowed.
>
>But my opinion of Hewlett-Backward isn't what it used to be,
>and I don't think we'll be buying anymore DeskJam printers
>or DesignJam plotters, as they are no longer honoring the
>terms of the service contracts they sold us.
>
>Any escalating replies should be mailed to me privately...
>
>Regards,
>-dq
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige_at_earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 6:35 AM
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: HP & Compaq
> >
> >
> > So what's everyone think about the newest merger, between HP
> > and Compaq?
> >
> > Jeff
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Received on Tue Sep 04 2001 - 17:48:58 BST