HP Spends $40,000,000 to Show You It's Amazing

[Guest]

hp is horrible hope they read this cause its true!

 

[bin1127]

why do you need to advertise yourself as amazing? Just spend the money making amazing products instead. I'm sure some engineer can whip up something nice for 40 mln.

 

[LaughALot]

maybe they should focus on making a product that is reliable and service that doesn't suck. I use to be a HP fan, I stop buying HP about three years ago.

 

[azone]

its funny but not worth the money

 

[cookoy]

"Have Printers" for me is "High Prices" for inks. Their laptops run hot and that's "Huge Problem" to me. Wish they spend more money on R&D and product improvement.

 

[Ciuy]

lets all buy HP laptops and stuff now that Dr. DREEEEEEEEEE appeared in one of their ads .......

 

[DjEaZy]

... sad really... and where is innovation here? iThink, that laid off workers of hp are not happy to see that...

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]maigo[/nom]I've never owned an HP product I enjoyedNever seen one I wantedNever liked one I've fixed[/citation]
I still think they make great printers.

 

[kelemvor4]

I bought my kids a couple HP dv8t "quad edition" i7/gt230 laptops for Christmas, they haven't had the first problem (granted they're still very new). Even with the 3 year extended warranty they were cheaper than any other (comparable) laptop I was able to find (I priced apple, dell, alienware, asus, msi and others). Even though the gpu is g92 based, the systems play everything I've thrown at them just fine(mass effect 2, battlefield2, wizard101) all at high settings (no fsaa on some of the tougher games, though). By the time (or probably before) these things are out of warranty, the cpu and gpu will be seriously out of date and need replacement anyway.

My only complaints are that battery life is low (although what do you expect with a gaming gpu and an i7 quad chip and 18" screen) and they wouldn't let me order them without paying for a windows license (I originally was considering linux for the kids).

I also own an HP EliteBook 6930p and an nc6400 for business use. I've had the nc6400 for three or 4 years now and have had no problems. The 6930p is almost a year old and also has had no problems. At the office I've got an ancient P4 HP kayak xm, and a few other HP's. The kayak is probably close to 10 years old. No problems with any of those systems, either.

I wouldn't consider a prebuilt desktop system from ANY company because they're just overpriced for what you get. For mobile computing, prebuilt seems to be the only option.

I guess my point is that in my opinion the reliability problems with hp are a bit blown out of proportion. I'll definitely keep buying HP (as long as their prices stay as good as they are).

 

[rbarone69]

WOW... I would guess if they GAVE away 80,000 $500 laptops I bet that would make a better marketing impact... Not to mention think of the job market.

 

[kelemvor4]

WOW... I would guess if they GAVE away 80,000 $500 laptops I bet that would make a better marketing impact... Not to mention think of the job market.

But that would also leave them with 80,000 fewer potential sales in addition to costing the same money.

 

[Guest]

I bought a couple of laptops from HP. As soon as warranty expired, laptops broke with faulty Nvidia graphics. HP wanted 400$ for each to fix. I will never buy an HP product. I used to recommend their products to many friends. Won't do that anymore.

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]santeana[/nom]HP never designed excellent products. They've always been HP and they've always sucked.[/citation]

You must be fairly young. HP was right up there with IBM when it came to quality business products for many years.

I can only assume you've never compared their Proliant chassis to Dell's rack servers. The build quality is great, the components have minimal errata in most Operating Systems, and the list of supported hardware is very clear.

Their retail Compaq/Pavilion line is cheap and not well backed, but I don't see anyone making quality products for their '1-yr warranty' lines.

 

[brimstone67]

I will never own another HP device, ever. They screwed literally millions of people and filing landfills with millions of devices they won't update drivers for thereby making them worthless in the Vista/7 world. They won't even release the driver source so that the community can make them work. They just want you to buy their crap again for no reason. HP can suck it!

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]nonxcarbonx[/nom]But if I watch the commercials on youtube, then HP doesn't have to pay for the advertising. I want the company to pay to inform me.[/citation]
Yea cause making the commercials in the first place cost nothing 😛

 

[Guest]

This just in: HP vows to spend more on commercials than the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic

 

[Impulse Fire911]

dont they have like the crappiest quality pc's and laptops avalible? soo 40 mil to advertise just cost your laptop 2 weeks of life

 

[Burodsx]

I'll never buy another HP after the last piece of crap I had.

 

[daggs]

sorry, nothing you can say will cause me to get an hp comp, just ask my hp laptop which is siting on the bed after 7 mb changes and guess what, it needs another mb change but no warranty... and no, I didn't abused him, the entire line uses a faulty mb.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]kravmaga[/nom]Hp used to design excellent products and I had a lot of respect for them but this ad campaign is just awkward and ineffective, imo.It reminded me of the bill gates/seinfeld ads and that's saying a lot.[/citation]
HP used to make crap products and they have come along way since their crappy Pavilions in 1999.

 

[korsen]

My sister used to have a 400MHz desktop from them. That thing BSoD'd more times than i've had to use the bathroom over the last 10 years, and more frequently!

My computer was a TX1410 tablet. It's power wire internals made contact with each other and just fell off like a dick with gangrene. I had to have it RMA'd 4 times - two of those times I got it back, it broke right after taking it out of the box and turning it on. Literally.

Back then, with their articles, they were all like "oh yes we have put aside millions of dollars for this" after Nvidia took responsibility for the problem but maybe they were talking about the millions of dollars they needed to put aside for the lack of business they were about to receive from replacing faulty laptops with identically faulty hardware they still had.

(Each RMA took an entire month, some of them an entire two months) And the support was non-existent, or horrible at best.

 

[korsen]

Oh, and don't forget about HP deleting people's posts in their site forums about the issue too lol now that was a shocker when we actually realized they were doing it.

They tried avoiding the issue like the plague. And now I avoid HP like the plague myself. I'm still using that tablet though, with a spliced power block no less, raised up off any surface it's laying on, with fans pointing at it - it still shuts down randomly on it's own. To hell with "Huge Problem"

 

[jojesa]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]Hmm... how about using that $40 million to make better products?[/citation]

At least the consumer products, since their business products are really good. I have never encountered an issued with their switches, servers and storage lines.
Consumer desktops and laptops not as good.

 

[lauxenburg]

With my one experience with HP computers, it has not been a good one. The motherboard on my Pavilion laptop fried within six months and HP would not help me out at all. Their quality is crap. Maybe if they took that $40 million and put it into higher quality board and better power supplies etc., I'd be more inclined to give them another shot.

 

[lotri]

lol.. interesting commercials but not likely to make me buy HP