Opinion: 3 Things HP Needs To Do Right Away

[razor512]

Make a HP touchpad 2

use a 16:9 9.7 inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1280x720

Use a VGA front facing camera, and a 3-5MP rear facing camera

Use a dual core snapdragon CPU, enable voltage scaling to slightly overvolt the CPU for a turbo mode where the clock speed is increased from 1.5GHz to 2.1GHz (it can overclock to 1.9 GHz on stock voltages)

1-2GB RAM

9000mAh 3.7V battery (user replaceable)

Add 2 USB ports, 1 mini HDMI, 1 Headphone jack, 1 Microphone jack

For connectivity, allow Wifi, bluetooth, and IRDA (for those who want TV remote functionality as well as home automation, consider teaming up with nevo for this)

For location services, use built in GPS (
If people inchina can make a knockoff smartphone with GPS, wifi, bluetooth, 3g, dual sim card and many other features for $50, I am sure HP can add a single GPS chip (retail, the chip needed to add GPS support cost less than $1 imagine buying it in bulk for volume discount)

Stereo speakers (bevel the speaker port to prevent cracking around the speakers)

Have it dual boot android and webOS

Avoid locking down the device so users can use a wide range of devices and linux drivers (allowing them to add 4g modems, external drives, USB microphones and speakers and many other USB devices.

Do all this and market it at $175 for a 16GB version and $199 for a 32GB version, and $225 for a 64GB version

 

[Shin-san]

100 megabyte printer drivers? Also, I know a lot of people with HP laptops that have a very loud CPU fan, reported by them to start happening after 6 months of ownership.

Also, their printers will resort to using your more expensive color ink if you run out of black ink.

That kind of garbage made me hesitate on getting anything else by HP.

 

[Guest]

It amazes me that everyone - including the author has completely forgotten about the *other* side of HP's enterprise offering - the hardware, HP is number one worldwide for servers - rack, blade, and pretty sure tower as well, they are number two worldwide for storage, 2nd only to EMC, and are rapidly gaining market share in the networking space as well. They also have a pretty solid offering in the business notebook and desktop space, yet everyone here seems to be concentrating on the consumer notebook/desktop space - which is a fairly small part of HP as a whole as is definitely not what they live/die by.

 

[Guest]

4) Offer the AIO-PCs without TV-Tuner in Switzerland, as many people don't want to pay TV fees.

 

[asdfghjkl]

500 KILOBYTES printer drivers without additional software, not 500 MEGABYTES.

 

[Guest]

What is this hp printer thing everyone keeps talking about?

As a linux user, I just plugged my hp printer in, and the desktop gave me a little notification 2 seconds later saying "HP Printer ready for use" and I was good to go.

Is it really that horrible on Windows?