Post #829798

2026-03-21 12:01 UTC

HP is one of those companies whose products you can easily avoid. I don’t understand their dominance in the printer market, or why people continue to buy their products when many of them are objectively poor. I also don’t recall a time when HP had a particularly strong reputation to begin with. At this point, most competitors offer better alternatives than HP.

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@kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2026-03-21 12:39

It's a known brand, that's the reason why people choose it.

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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-21 14:52

No, their laptops were pretty good about 10-12 years ago. Mac guy, but Macs weren't great in the Intel era. I was advised to get an HP laptop. The one I was looking at was very highly rated. Can't remember the name. Bought one from Asus with better specs. I would have been fine with the HP. We used to have Elite Desks at work and they are dogshit. I kinda want one though. 8th Gen i5 with 8GB RAM. I wanna toss the hard drive and put an SSD in it. Then put Steam OS on it. I bet it would be decent for 2000s PC gaming. Like up to Skyrim.

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@bhamlin@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 17:16

There are better printers than HP, but they have a solid niche where they're the least expensive enterprise printers that aren't entirely garbage.

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