Why do HP laptops suck?

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

PEBKAC Error - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

UBD Failure - User Brain Dead

I used them both, to co-workers, multiple times when I was a service manager.

I've used eye-dee-ten-tee (spelled differently ahem) several times.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Toshiba all the way. This bad boy has survived 3-4 years of little virus protection, HD video editing, illegal music downloads, and constant pr0n sites. Never had it crash (even after jinxing myself before).

My GF's HP did fair better than her macbook.

I'm glad to hear that. My current laptop, my bro's, and my mom's are all Toshiba's. I just bought a new one on Friday and ordered a Toshiba docking station (read port replicator).

I hate calling them docking stations cause I have a true docking station at work for my HP Elitebook. It locks in the laptop with levers... it works great. I would have bought a similar setup but those Elitebooks are CRAZY expensive!

[Rangerscott]

I bought an emachines lappy two years ago and its still working. LOL

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

I'm glad to hear that. My current laptop, my bro's, and my mom's are all Toshiba's. I just bought a new one on Friday and ordered a Toshiba docking station (read port replicator).

I hate calling them docking stations cause I have a true docking station at work for my HP Elitebook. It locks in the laptop with levers... it works great. I would have bought a similar setup but those Elitebooks are CRAZY expensive!

My work PC is an Elitebook. Solid machine. It's the shitty software that effs it up.

[Gas Man]

Oh for sure. Or like my company. They deleted 7 and installed XP. But then again at least XP is stable.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Oh for sure. Or like my company. They deleted 7 and installed XP. But then again at least XP is stable.

Win7 is pretty damned stable and compatible, if you go for the 32 bit version. Vista, however, was a steaming pile of shit. So much so, in fact, that they had to rename it "Windows 7" instead of "Windows Vista Service Pack 3", or the like, because no one would buy it.

[Gas Man]

Yeah I just got my first taste of 7 with my new personal laptop I got last week. It is very vista like. The new one came with 64bit. Why I don't know. My old laptop is vista and while everybody hates it. I've had little to no problems with it.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Yeah I just got my first taste of 7 with my new personal laptop I got last week. It is very vista like. The new one came with 64bit. Why I don't know. My old laptop is vista and while everybody hates it. I've had little to no problems with it.

I had a ton of problems with Vista; most compatibility related.

Al of the manufacturers seem to be shipping with 64 bit now. Not as much of a problem as it was in the past, because at least the peripheral manufacturers are making drivers for their stuff on 64 bit OS now. You also need 64 bit OS to use more than roughly 3.5GB of system RAM.

[Gas Man]

Ok. Well new lappy came with 6GB RAM

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Yeah I just got my first taste of 7 with my new personal laptop I got last week. It is very vista like. The new one came with 64bit. Why I don't know. My old laptop is vista and while everybody hates it. I've had little to no problems with it.

I tried Vista for 6 hours before reverting back to XP. So far, even though 7 seems similar, I've had zero issues other than MS moving all the controls and me having to get used to it again.