Comments on: 10 Reasons to not buy Hewlett Packard (hp)

By: marcpodi

marcpodi — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:07:10 +0000

do compaq presario included? im fearing this thing..

By: al

al — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:32:08 +0000

True! HP quality sucks.

I picked a dv2000 series laptop a year back.

My bad.

First, the piece that came to me came missing some standard equiment. There was a good selection of software provided, but still, i’d rather also have the hardware. Its Bluetooth stopped working the first time I tried it out, and now the wireless doesn’t turn off. And as of 5 hours ago, the screen has started to flicker, suggesting to me that I will now simply have to throw away.

There never was any warranty available on it since its used outside the country of purchase, and I sincerely believe that they will ask me to go in for the most expensive repairs, if they feel like putting in the time.

I have owned HP products earlier as well, and can surely tell you that things have only become worse.

Compaq should have gone to anyone but these losers.

By: Andrew Gatenby

Andrew Gatenby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:58 +0000

Agree with everything listed here!

I’ve got a HP dv6174ea laptop which can literally only run for 10 minutes before overheating and everything on screen just stopping dead. In the first 12 months of owning the laptop it went back 3 times to fix this fault (along with other faults!) and they consistently failed to do so.

Now the warranty has ran out, they’re not willing to consider taking the machine back to actually fix the problems they have failed to do!

Absolute joke!

By: Asif

Asif — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:58:08 +0000

Well, my friend, HP has disappointed and cheated many of us. It’s a combination of defective bios upgrades, faulty hardware, and of course, HPs determined unwillingness to help its customers and get us to deal with slimy, uneducated, pathetic low class customer service from India. I’m sorry, I have nothing against Indians, but I do when they make my life more difficult with the way they perform. And it’s not their fault, it’s HP that is to blame.

By: Robertass2000

Robertass2000 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:23:35 +0000

I support all opinions. I have dah experience with my laptop hp dv6018ea. After I bouht hp laptop it vga card blowe up. I was lucky one as because my varianty was not finished so HP fixed. Exactly the recover partition it is very successful think reason by easier and quicker way to repair OS. But I still have got the problem with WLAN after I had upgraded to win vista. By the way the web cam doesn”t work. Every time when I wish to unse it and try to connect, the computer announce me that this device already working by another application. I think so the bigest mistake I made upgrade bios. Before upgare the computer used to work completely well with original win xp home edition. I have a plan to change my hp to better computer but I have issue with computer is most suitable for me.

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:59:26 +0000

So true, So true. Every thing, every fucking thing you wrote is completely true. My new (1,20 year old) HP dv5174eu laptop is dying. Two weeks ago, the harddisk burned, tried to recover the files, without any luck. I sent the HD for recovery and paid 1700 euros for that. What if I paid little bit more to buy something else than HP? And guess what? warranty is only 1 year, so you can’t do anything.
Graphic card is malfunctioning, I can’t read the screen if a BSD happens (screen flickers), and moreover, the CD rom jumps out without me doing anything or without a CD being inside! I think the problem with CDrom, there are many who experienced problems with it. I have also a desktop HP from year 2000, it had EXACTLY the same problem with CDrom, and at the end, CDrom just died.
I wonder how HP survives.

By: Asif

Asif — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:41:03 +0000

I’ll look around to see if I can find something for the N5472.

HP has lost the ability to function professionally in an attempt to function cheaply.

By: James

James — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:59:59 +0000

Well put!
I have an old HP N5472 laptop that I got from a guy on E-bay..no drivers or recovery discs. Went to the HP site and found 1 kit. Ordered it. One month later, the monies were deducted from my bank acct..only to be refunded the next week. No kit, no explanation.
Went back to the site..now kit is NOT available.
Does anybody have one I can burn a copy from? Because HP is absolutely clueless about the parts they have for older laptops.