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The Machine OS: HP Will Release a “Revolutionary” New Operating System in 2015

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I have an HP Envy laptop; it was, I believe, the highest end model at the time when I bought it (i7, 1080p, dedicated GPU, etc.). It is the worst single device I have ever owned. And, in this context, it's worth mentioning the HP shovelware it came equipped with...the "recovery" partition didn't work after a Windows crash, so I had to purchase restore media from HP and wait for it to arrive before Windows worked again on my system (I work under Linux, so that wasn't a huge deal, but still, no games for over a week).

The last HP printer I owned was also garbage. Literally. I threw it away after about a year of frustrated use. The software for that was kinda crap, too.

So, why would I consider trusting HP with building an operating system?

I think memristor tech is exciting. And, I hope that HP can become a research juggernaut again. But, I don't have very high hopes of them making anything I would want to use, given my recent past experience with HP products. It can be easy for a company to get segmented into "consumer" products that are crap and "pro" products that are supposed to be high quality...but, I lose faith when QC in the consumer end is so poor.

I have worked with a company that bought HP's to their entire staff and very few of those have had issues. Much fewer HP's have been faulting than the previous Dell ones, i should not that Dell replaced the faulty machines while HP requested them to be sent to service without a meanwhile replacement.

The worst experience i've had is by far Asus Netbooks that - at the time - was used on the field.

And I'm sure other will have other experiences. Seems to me that quality on laptops is quite a gamble.

I liked what HP did with WebOS, so i hope they will do a similar work with "The Machine": http://www.openwebosproject.org/

For some reason the quality gap between HPs consumer and professional laptops is massive. HPs EliteBooks are pretty solid, but their consumer laptops like the Envy or Pavilion are really quite bad.

A decade ago worked I worked at a company run on a PA-RISC HP 9000 running HP/UX. I had no complaints. The system was incredibly stable, even if the legacy code base running on it was crap.

Their "pro" gear used to be really solid, with good support people if you needed them. Not sure about now.

> So, why would I consider trusting HP with building an operating system?

They made their own Unix seven years before Linux came along and HP VUE was the starting point for the CDE project.

HP will release a "revolutionary" new press release every couple of months.

Best of luck to them. I wish they would have thrown more weight behind webOS when they acquired Palm, but oh well!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878949

lemme guess.. it will run 'javascript'..

In the cloud.

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