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Well....they make other products too. I'm sure Laptop/Desktop/Server department transferred some money to Printer department
I used to work in a large oil company for a decade. Around 2018, everyone got new HP laptops with touch screen. We're talking 20.000 permanent employees, and more than 40.000 externals (externals did not get a laptop). After a couple of weeks, people started complaining about the fan making a lot of noise.
After HP checked the laptops, it turned out that the fan was not powerful enough. Their solution? Limit the CPU speed. And my company just agreed. Fuck that noise!!!
I already started boicotting them in 2009, when i purchased a computer, which had an S-video. But it didn't work. Went to the store that sold it, they told me to contact HP. I did, and they just told me that it was a error on the entire laptop series, and that I should've known about it before I purchased the laptop.
Go fuck yourself, HP!
I decided to stay away from HP around that time. I was regularly troubleshooting a friend's laptop and thought he got tons of virus and spywares from sketchy porn sites must be why he has weird issues with intermittent Internet... Turns out it was his wifi adapter being killed by the cpu heat. A real bad design that HP refused to acknowledge to not have to pay for its mistakes. Then years later they acknowledge there was an issue once nobody is having those machines anymore. Friend could never get even a partial refund.
Sounds exactly like HP.
I gather that you're not in Europe. Here they would have bee sent packing with their shitty hardware (in both cases).
This was in Norway! I was fucking flabbergasted when it happened!
The story about my personal laptop was in Australia.
HP and HPE are two separate entities too.