HP quits consumer market

[fohfoh]

Michael Dell must be having a field day right now. His biggest competitor just folded.

they haven't folded, they are just selling the division, it'll be the same as when IBM sold their pc division to lenovo.

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.

Hard to say. Depends who buys it out. Lenovo didn't hit the shitfan once IBM sold it off. But if someone established buy them out (ie: Acer) it could really be a world of hurt for Dell. If Dell buys them out, well, it'll likely mean less selection.

[tomoya-kun]

Trying to score an HP touchpad for 99$ which is what best buy is selling them for.

[halfelite]

Trying to score an HP touchpad for 99$ which is what best buy is selling them for.

I bought two already lol.

[tomoya-kun]

Trying to score an HP touchpad for 99$ which is what best buy is selling them for.

I bought two already lol.

They seem to be out of stock everywhere...

Where'd you get yours?

[halfelite]

Trying to score an HP touchpad for 99$ which is what best buy is selling them for.

I bought two already lol.

They seem to be out of stock everywhere...

Where'd you get yours?

barns and noble is in stock right now. keep check the slickdeal thread they post fast. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862 just scroll down to the second post that is titled wiki. I got one from office depo friday night/saturday morning, and the next from one of the amazon people.

[bloody000]

At this point I think it's pretty much certain that there is zero stock in Canada.

[NaRu]

Why would anyone want to get a touchpad when HP isn't going to do anymore updates for it. I rather have a tablet that will be supported

[HiddenJumper]

I work for Staples in their Tech department and this whole thing with selling their division sucks. Can't tell you how many people I had call yesterday or come into store looking for the damn touchpads. Not to mention, half of the laptops we sell are HP laptops and probably our most recommended ones, since in comparision, the HP laptops have better specs. We also sell more HP desktops than any other brand.

Not sure how this is going to affect what we carry in the future or what brand we'll replace it with. Sucks but it'll also be interesting what the higher ups in Staples think is more worth it (for christ sakes we have an entire isle dedicated to HP Printers 

[AceHigh]

Good riddance! If you can't build your rig from parts, you don't deserve to use it.

[TMRNetShark]

Good riddance! If you can't build your rig from parts, you don't deserve to use it.

How do you propose that people build laptops? I believe (and agree) that people should be able to build towers from the options a company gives. At that point though, it would be significantly cheaper just to go to newegg or similar website.

[AceHigh]

Always wondered myself why nobody started selling laptop parts yet and standardized the sizes. Sure, a bit more tricky to build because of the space limitations, but it's doable.

Also ever since US dollar plunged from valuable currency to toilet paper over the last decade, I have been ordering cheap parts from US from this site:

www.performance-pcs.com

They have so much awesome stuff there...

[halfelite]

Why would anyone want to get a touchpad when HP isn't going to do anymore updates for it. I rather have a tablet that will be supported

Because its cheap what would an update bring? It already browses the web and does everything any other tablet would do that someone would pay 500$ for. and the people at xda are hard at work trying to port android over to it and if that happens then you get your updates. at 99$ its just too good to pass up.

[AnimeJanai]

Always wondered myself why nobody started selling laptop parts yet and standardized the sizes. Sure, a bit more tricky to build because of the space limitations, but it's doable.

What the consumer wants and a corporation wants are usually two separate things.  There is no business profit advantage to corporations for standardizing form factors for external case compatibility.  Ignoring size and weight and to exaggerate the situation, would any company sell a product chassis that lasts forever and can be upgraded with parts or bezels from a competitor?  You can imagine how much more profit the companies would make if every desktop type PC had parts that could not be used with a different company brand.  There's no need for them to make the same "mistake" with laptops that happened with desktop units.  The other thing going against standardization is that laptop form factors are still evolving towards lighter weight and monolithic bodies that require the fan to be on all the time.  If there was standardization that would not threaten profitability, it would be to have a small metal plate on the bottom to which an external cooling pad (with heat pipes) could be fastened to.  The heat would thus be removed from the unit thus allowing the internal graphic card to run cooler without hitting 80 degree centigrade or more as they do now.[/quote]

Also ever since US dollar plunged from valuable currency to toilet paper over the last decade, I have been ordering cheap parts from US from this site:   www.performance-pcs.com
They have so much awesome stuff there...

Machiavellian tactics occurred in order to accomplish ideological goals:

During the Reagan era, a friend and former colleague, a professor of American history, was invited to the deliberations of a Washington think-tank that provided policy direction for the Republican Party. As they discussed growing the debt and increasing the deficit, he was flabbergasted: “Are you not the party of balanced budgets and debt elimination?” The reply was unequivocal, “Our goal is to grow the deficit as much as possible in order to create political space to eliminate government-funded programming. Until then, we want high deficits while lobbying for a balanced budget — and promoting social program cuts as the only solution.”

[tomoya-kun]

Always wondered myself why nobody started selling laptop parts yet and standardized the sizes. Sure, a bit more tricky to build because of the space limitations, but it's doable.

Also ever since US dollar plunged from valuable currency to toilet paper over the last decade, I have been ordering cheap parts from US from this site:

www.performance-pcs.com

They have so much awesome stuff there...

Getting MXM3 GFX is incredibly hard to do

[bloody000]

http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/24/hulu-blocks-hp-touchpad/

LOL hulu