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I suppose somebody has to make printers. And it's not like HP are good at anything else, so...

I've used by EliteBook 8570w for about 4 years. It's a powerful, rugged laptop with a decent keyboard and good screen. I've upgraded the memory and hard drive over time and don't plan on replacing it any time soon.

My mom just bought a Windows 10 laptop from HP for under $200 including tax; that's an amazing price point... sure there will be bloatware and it's a cheaply made laptop... but for under $200 that's pretty impressive.

My counter example is we bought 120 of their cellular equipped netbooks from Verizon and had 100 hard drive failures. They got tired of us shipping them back and just sent us hard drives to replace. Our techs did not like the headache.

Apple used to make some fine printers (of course I think they were mostly Canon print engines). First thing I thought of... http://www.theonion.com/article/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-th...

Except at the time you got more bang for your buck from the QMS equivalents,

You act like HP is even good at that.

Every day I use an HP LTO-4 tape drive for backup, they are or at least were good at that.

And echoing jhbadger, I still make occasional use of my 2nd HP calculator, a 28S. Nothing beats RPN.

HPE networking isn't terrible. it's certainly far and above what Dell is putting out.

+1 for HP Procurve series

..except for the older ones that would occasionally freak out if they saw multicast packets.

Calculators? I used to love my HP48.

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