My dad used to work at a corp in the 80s that got most of their equipment from HP. As a budding nerd I once got hold of one of their catalogues - an inch thick and page after page of high-tech development kit: scopes, analysers, workstations, picosecond pulse generators, ... you name it. It used to be synonymous with quality. I cringed when I read the first jokes about printers with webOS around the web some time ago. Still have that catalogue.
I am still feeling burned by how quickly my zv6000 disintegrated. (And anecdotally, how poorly they treated some of the people I know who had malfunctioning laptops from bad nvidia gpus).
I'm not interested in buying HP products anymore, I'm sure that there are people who feel similar. HP is not a brand that stands for quality in my eyes.