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HP quits consumer market
bloody000:
--- Quote from: Xtras on August 20, 2011, 08:53:32 AM ---Michael Dell must be having a field day right now. His biggest competitor just folded.
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No.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on August 20, 2011, 06:47:44 AM ---HP laptops are?/were shit. Their OS is filled with bloat.
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Hmm, not too sure about that. My HP laptop came with Vista installed, which I promptly removed and upgraded to XP (came with an install disc). This was 2.5 years ago. Last year the HDD started having issues; a few bad sectors just wouldn't die. In February or March, I bought an SSD and stuck it in there and installed 7, and now it's the fastest computer I have.
So if Vista was loaded with HP shit, I wouldn't know. But their hardware is pretty decent.
Gamerzhell:
--- Quote from: Xtras on August 20, 2011, 08:53:32 AM ---Michael Dell must be having a field day right now. His biggest competitor just folded.
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they haven't folded, they are just selling the division, it'll be the same as when IBM sold their pc division to lenovo.
Xtras:
--- Quote from: Gamerzhell on August 20, 2011, 11:05:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: Xtras on August 20, 2011, 08:53:32 AM ---Michael Dell must be having a field day right now. His biggest competitor just folded.
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they haven't folded, they are just selling the division, it'll be the same as when IBM sold their pc division to lenovo.
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That's what I mean by folded, not that they went bankrupt, but rather they effectively gave up on it.
They'll lose that consumer trust and the brand loyalty because the product now starts to look shaky to the casual buyer. Yeah, it isn't like there is no competition for the future, but in the immediate aftermath you know Dell's sales are inevitably going to jump since people are going to put their trust in something that to them seems more stable. There is no guarantee that the future of the division is going to go the way of IBM and Lenovo. Each time in corporate history, turmoil is inevitably followed by share loss.
In any case Michael Dell has been taking a few stabs and having a laugh on Twitter/Google+ from what I can see.
bloody000:
Even then consumer PCs will not make much money for Dell. It's a highly saturated commodity market with razor-thin margins.
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