Excellent Printers---Average Computers---Over Priced Monitors.
Jul 05 '00 (Updated Sep 01 '06)
The Bottom Line HP's Best Product is by far the Printers they produce
Hewlett Packard not to be confused with Packed Bell; is know for paramount printer speeds, quality, support, software, and high quality papers, which might I add will always be on my list of purchase. I do not recommend the monitors they produce nor some of the computers/laptops that come of the assembly line.
Same thing for less? 2 star for HP monitors!
Everyone has to make a killing on something? Well when HP bundles a Computer Package you must buy their monitor or you don’t get the mail-in rebate! What a slap in the face! On the one hand you get $150 bucks back from HP, on the other you pick out a higher quality monitor for less! I find it extremely nerve racking. You see working on the sales floor forced me to make people choose between, comfort/want and economics/what is given in the package! However this isn’t the doing of retail. Oh, no! This is by far the bamboozling of the manufactures. We are preset to advertisements that are to come out each Sunday, with the computers that are selected by our corporate office and that of the manufactures. I am but a peon or a worthless peasant in the pecking order. Anyway, HP’s current selection for monitors at Best Buy are the same as the lowest off-brand we sell. Who wants to pay 299.99 for a 17” monitor, when you can get the same “specs” for $150.00 less??? (Same Resolution, Dot Pitch, Viewable image, refresh rate, resolution, and warranty as the HP…)
Basically your forced to get the over-priced hunk-o-junk, or you don’t get your stinking rebate!
Awesome Printers, Scanners, and Accessories Three cheers or 5 stars for this part!
I personally sold nothing but HP printers and papers. Not to mention I practice what I preach, just recently purchased the 832C, which is by far the best printer I’ve had in my life. I wrote an excellent review explaining the unit quite in-depth awhile back. Hp doesn’t rate by DPI, (Dots per inch) they use a different technology all together called Photo Ret Technology. Cartridges that have built-in photo quality so you don’t have to buy different ink tanks. The software lets you control the quality and/or the paper your putting into the unit. When selecting the print button you have the option to tell it what kind of paper your using and what quality you’d like it to print out. I’ve compared the quality of the HP photo paper & printouts to that of Kodak film processing & brand of paper.
HP BRIGHT WHITE PAPER: This paper is unlike your regular paper you feed threw your printer. It is a cotton base, which contains up to 70% cotton in each sheet of paper. The paper is thicker, dries faster, is recyclable, brighter, and increases your color quality/sharpness in black. I use the HP Bright White paper frequently when turning in reports with color graphics or plain black & white text.
HP PHOTO PAPER: Self-explanatory, or simply put, high quality for scanned images, photos, downloaded pictures, or high quality color.
Hewlett Packard doesn’t flout worthless “eye-candy” terms like DPI or resolution with the scanners they manufacture. If you’re in the market for an excellent USB/Parallel scanner then check out the newest line of HP imaging. With DPI & resolution manufactures have the option of basically putting any resolution or bit quality. For those classically conditioned to expect higher prices & bigger numbers mean better, manufactures take full advantage of this notion. You would expect a 42bit scanner to out perform a 36bit scanner, when reading the fine print we realize the information given is false. 12.8 million colors the eye can distinguish, which means that a 42bit scanner with about is 16.2 million colors does not benefit a HUMAN! Resolution is another joke along with DPI; these flouted unconditioned terms openly foist the idea that higher numbers is beneficial to the user! ”Oh, 9600X9600 that’s good right?” Then I must explain this is acquired by software, not hardware, which means spending more money and that you must also realize it might take up 1.0GB hard drive space by scanning a wallet size picture at that resolution! Not to mention the time you’ll be spending waiting for it to finish…
HP computers 3 stars
HP computers come backed with decent customers service, reliable parts, and good ideas. I don’t condone any HP product but the worthless monitors. (IN THE WORDS OF HOMER SIMPSON “I HATE THEM SOOOOOO MUCH!”) Within the computer packages you usually get: a computer, which contains mouse, keyboard, and speakers, a printer, and a monitor. Another thing that bugs people is the speakers’ only fit on the HP monitor. Sure you can saw off the tips and glue them to an off brand, but who wants that headache. Most HP computers have a shared memory architect, basically the RAM is shared with the video memory (up to 11MB dedicated to video.) So if I have 64MB subtract the 11MB you receive 53MB RAM showing in windows. I was told that this has some pros/cons, but all I see is con’s. The problems include: Trying to upgrade your video memory meaning you must use a PCI slot, no AGP slot for upgrading to a better card, trying to disable the video on board to make it use the new card, and just plain cheap parts. The modem that HP makes has the soundcard & game port built on it as well! This means if your modem goes you have to disable the card or remove it, forcing you to purchase a new soundcard, modem, and game card. (That comes to about $200)… Talk about a pain in the rear! The major save for HP computers is the simply fact that I would rather buy an HP, than some no-name computer I see on E-bay or a lower end brand that doesn’t have customer service, except for a guy in a garage talking to a phone that isn’t plugged in.
I didn’t go into great depths of DPI and Resolution, because I know you’re bored to death, and I tried to add some factual jokes & big words to keep things lively. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and may this information I toiled with help you find the computer product your searching for…
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