





I. HP's Baffling Direction


HP's stock has sunk approximately 44 percent since July 2011.


The electronics giant's decision to pick Mr. Apotheker 




II. Company Looks to Quit What It's Best At




III. Downhill Slide Started With Mark Hurd's Exit



Meanwhile Mr. Hurd 





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RE: Dammit!
By TheDoc9 on 8/31/2011 10:28:03 AM , Rating: 2
lol, that's an advertisement for the square trade warranty service! Really that's not valid information and it's totally biased.

RE: Dammit!
By tastyratz on 8/31/2011 12:30:46 PM , Rating: 2
biased how? Square trade does not sell warranties with brand centric pricing. They are in the truth business here because more people will buy laptops that result in fewer claims as a result of their report. More people will also more likely buy warranties after seeing the figures, and square trade will see lower sales of higher risk warranties. Fudging the numbers here will not net them financial gain.

I can also say from a friend who runs a pc repair company and has processed about 2000 machines so far, he concur's with the results and his findings. This should be taken with a grain of salt mind you though because it has no direct metric and is only observed trending.

RE: Dammit!
By mindless1 on 9/1/2011 10:08:09 PM , Rating: 2
You need to look beyond the raw numbers and consider who buys what. The average Joe Sixpack hasn't even heard of Asus, sees Toshiba as some "japanese company", and isn't going to fork over the extra dough for a Sony or Apple product.

Lenovo is quite popular in the business sector but for end user purchases there's mainly HP, Dell, and Acer to a lesser extent.

The point is, less technically savvy people are more likely to break technology based products.

Personally, I wouldn't rate HP best or worst, their lowest end laptops are pretty poorly engineered for durability, and there was that nVidia overheating fiasco a couple (?) years back which was really due to not enough heatsinking of the chip, NOT solder bump formulation which would never have mattered if the chips weren't getting so hot, but otherwise you have to consider that HP sells more low-end laptops than most of the others and you just can't engineer in as much durability with a low budget to work with unless you just make it thick as a brick and very heavy, both of which prospective buyers dislike for the obvious reasons.


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