Comment by drbig | Hacker News Reader

Comment by drbig | Hacker News Reader

> HP Envy 6455e

...I give myself the benefit of doubt as not technically a native speaker... but "Envy"? Really?

I still have my HP LaserJet P<numbers> I got when I was a student, many lives ago, and I got it to the point where the power button - the only button - is mostly dead. I had pondered "opening it up" and just running bare wires out - hacker style! - but... This whole consumer-printer-industry-situation is still so sad I'm happy I need a printer only slightly more than once a month.

And I've seen videos of teletypes from a freaking half a century ago working fine today.

Apologies. I have also an inkjet-scanner box from an _even earlier life_ that I keep around because a) it has a space to be in, b) it still scans (!!).

> I give myself the benefit of doubt as not technically a native speaker... but "Envy"? Really?

It is a very odd name. Maybe it's because people who own those envy people who don't.

It seems like HP have been using 'Envy' as a way to denote their mid-high end products. Never knew they used it with printers though, that does seem kinda odd. Who brags about having a high end printer?

It used to be a boutique maker of gamer desktops and laptops that HP bought, sort of like Alienware back in the day before the Dell acquisition

Shiiiit, you gotta see what I got. It's a plotter. How big a piece of paper can you print on? Aw, 8.5" by 11"? This thing's measured in feet, baby.

At least I had that back in the day at college. Now I got a Brother color laserjet L8850CDW! It's got wireless and it duplexes and it's got scanning as well. Supposedly it does faxing but I don't have a hard line to try it out on. It's got this touchscreen display, and each cartridge has about 4,000 page!

...people will brag about anything. If you're in the industry, whichever industry it is, if you've got the best (along whichever metric is appropriate), and you want people to know, you'll brag about it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com