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

[rcarlton]

that's funny - UPS sends out Dell Optiplex PCs to their commercial customers for UPS shipping stations.

they come as part of your contract, and they won't support anything else.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]maigo[/nom]I've never owned an HP product I enjoyedNever seen one I wantedNever liked one I've fixed[/citation]

I've seen many! We've got an A3 laser printer here which is awesome - wouldn't mind one at home for holliday photos and the like

Also I've seen many good hp notebooks (although 2009 was a year of poor quality @ hp) that I might consider if I ever bought another one.

HP mashines aren't appealing to enthusiasts in general though. They are using asus boards with standard asus layouts (which means nothing fits) and special ics clock chips so you can't overclock no matter what.
But I've got to say they're reliable. At the addresses I work, save for harddrives (thanks maxtor), they keep working forever. In the last 6 years I've only had to trash one for being faulty - and someone accidently put 230 volts thru the usb ports, so it wasn't really a quality issue with the system.

ps. we've got about 400 hp systems on the addresses I'm responsible for.

 

[goodguy713]

[citation][nom]thegreathuntingdolphin[/nom]Too much...[/citation]

lol they have that you can save 15% or more on car insurance right .. lol i would bet if they didnt advertise it would be more like 40 % or more on car insurance.. lol

 

[rbarone69]

[citation][nom]kelemvor4[/nom]But that would also leave them with 80,000 fewer potential sales in addition to costing the same money.[/citation]

You miss my point, think of the press coverage alone. Not to mention the best marketing of all, word of mouth. So my comment (which was thwarted with negativity) was if they gave it away, it would be a much different marketing tactic with potentially a better end result in what I see in the above article.

Marketing ROI is one the most difficult to track, but I would take to news about HP giving away that many laptops to maybe, schools, as big news and a huge positive impact on the future purchases of HP products (not just laptops). That was my point in the whole "give it away" as a way to generate product awareness more effectively than the cost of the above.