HP, about 15 years ago steered towards margins. And as all big companies taking that direction, they spend more time lobbying to protect, marketing to con, or off-shoring to reduce quality than they do innovation and improving quality. I don't even consider HP for anything anymore. Plenty of other options.
New HP Printers
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I’ve been happy with HP for laptops and printers. As I said before, I have a laser tank all in one and it’s been great. Looks like when I do need a toner refill it’s gonna be about $20.
For laptops, they typically have great Black Friday deals on their website. Never ever buy one from a box store. They are the crap models and are complete rip offs.
Ha! This is what I used to do when I actually had an office. Being remote, my only office is in New Hampshire.Just use the printer at your office.
Plus this printer was for my retired inlaws.
I do hardware support for a large company and HP laptops have been the best ones we've purchased over the years IMO. We've had some laptops go 5 years and they still are running great. I've bought mostly Dell for personal use and had good luck with them but the Dell's we buy at work seem to have the worst lifespan of anything we buy both laptops and desktops. The Dell's all seem to have something fail or glitch on them right around the 3 year mark and it seems like when it happens they all like to do it around the same time too.
Really its more about doing your research and not buying the cheap out of the box models you get at Walmart. I've always customized and ordered my personal devices directly from the manufacturer and not bought a pre-cofigured one through a 3rd party. Got a Dell XPS desktop that is 10 years old now that still runs great with the upgrades I have done to it but it is missing 2 requirements to upgrade to Windows 11 so I need to decide if I want to just replace it or use one of the "work arounds" to get past the Win11 requirements check. May end up doing both eventually anyways as I like to tinker with old stuff after I replace it to see what I can do with it. Bought an HP laptop in 2022 that I have been pretty pleased with but I don't use it regularly either.
I do that when I'm there. That's also when I pick up another package of printer paper to take home.Just use the printer at your office.
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I have an HP laptop. It's biggest flaw is the keys are dark gray and the numbers/letters are white. After about a year the most commonly pressed keys no longer have any indication of what they are. The paint, or whatever, is completely gone. I don't know if it's their normal set up or just the model I got.
I have a HP deskjet printer that I am getting fed up with. My wife is going back to school to get her teaching certificate and still likes to print some things off for highlighting and taking notes. She also has to print off forms to get filled out for things like classroom experience. Our printer won't stay connected and I have to un-plug and re-install the printer every time we want to print something. It takes me about 10 minutes of troubleshooting before getting anything to print.
I might have to look into a Brother Laser printer because I'm getting fed up with my HP printer. Any suggestions on affordable models?
I might have to look into a Brother Laser printer because I'm getting fed up with my HP printer. Any suggestions on affordable models?
Really depends on what kind of functionality you want out of it. Do you want something that is a true all-in-one that you can scan/copy with or do you just want a basic printer and do you want color or just black and white? You probably are going to spend $400-500 on a color MFC but if you just want a basic color laser probably be more in the $250-300+ range? I haven't really been in the market for a printer to
I have an HP Spectre from 2019 I think? I like the touch screen and use a bamboo pen for editing photos with photoshop. Other than the battery giving me issues, everything else seems to be good with it.
I haven't come across a laptop that doesn't have some kind of battery issues after 3 years especially if you use it on battery power frequently. It's just like any other rechargeable battery the more times you drain it the less life it is going to have over the years. You can usually search for a video on how to replace the battery on most models. IMO the HP laptops are some of the easiest ones to replace, usually just a few screws to take the back of the laptop off then a couple on the battery itself and maybe unplugging a wire from the board. Replacing other components is where some get really tricky and a lot of work to disassemble. Have worked on older laptops to replace keyboards and touchpads there were really easy and others have had to take out a ton of screws and disassemble other parts just to get to them. Usually RAM and hard drives are just like batteries to get to but have come across models that the RAM slots were underneath the motherboard for some reason which are a real pain to get to for a simple upgrade.
Used to work for HP years ago and there was a huge difference between the computer business and print.
Print/ink was basically their own entity because of the margins on Ink and they were the older established orig HP people. They "owned" that market and did what they wanted.
Computer side ended up blending HP/Compaq and since margins were much lower as the years went on actually had to keep up with more quality equipment.
Print/ink was basically their own entity because of the margins on Ink and they were the older established orig HP people. They "owned" that market and did what they wanted.
Computer side ended up blending HP/Compaq and since margins were much lower as the years went on actually had to keep up with more quality equipment.
I wiped and put patched firmware onto my old HP printer in order for it to do generic ink cartridges. I'm not sure I'd be able to do that with a recent model.
Yeah, the battery has been replaced once. I'm no tech guru, but the issue is that I think the battery runs in the background because my computer will be dead after awhile and I need to charge it again to start it up. Is that driver issues? I'm not sure if that's a setting that the people replaced it for me knew that. I also didn't realize that it was an easier battery to replace.
I've had several HP laptops. Maybe this has already been said, but HP will not accept a generic charger even it has identical specs to the HP. I ditched my last HP printer for a cheap Epson Eco Tank and have saved hundreds of dollars in ink costs. I'll never buy another HP product.
