HP & Compaq

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed Sep 5 22:33:38 2001

> From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>

> I wonder if HP will absorb Compaq and totally do away with them or still
run
> them as an independantly named subsidiary.

PC-wise, I hope they just sort of do away with each other. IMHO, the
current HP and Compaq lines represent the lowest point in mass-produced
boxes. As bad as E-Machines and Packard Bells. Additionally, obtaining
the drivers (when the customer has lost the restore disk) can be
impossible, and when it *is* possible I'm often looking at a 15 MB download
for the video and 11 MB more for sound.

This is grotesque -- crappy, proprietary hardware running bloated software.
 It's a wonder people put up with it. Perhaps they won't anymore.

Glen
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Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 22:33:38 BST