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Sunday, October 16, 2005
Of course...
Slashdot is reporting that HP is recalling 135,000 laptop batteries (including those of the Pavilion line) because they can overheat and melt. I would love to take this opportunity to remind everyone that HP makes crappy notebooks and that you shoulnd't buy one. My previous laptop was an HP Pavilion and it ran roughly at the temperature of a freshly baked pizza. I sent my system back three times over the four years I used it, twice for the cooling fan breaking. They couldn't get their design right four years ago and now their batteries are melting in the laps of their users. Either HP is getting Punk'd or they have a troop of primates designing their notebook housing. As you can tell, I'm still ill about my HP experience.
Posted by Will at October 16, 2005 10:07 PM in Personal Reflections
Comments
Actually, I think HP does have a troop of primates designing their notebook housing...
Posted by: Gidu at October 16, 2005 11:38 PM
HP's consumer notebooks have long been crap, but I got many years of happy use out of an Omnibook (their line of business notebooks). I don't know whether their "business" notebook line's any good post-Compaq merger though.
Posted by: Cog at October 22, 2005 06:14 PM