Repeating a reply to a comment here, but I think it needs to be said.
People need to be careful they don't overgeneralize too much about HP. Especially if basing opinions on home/small office product lines, which is not all HP does. I'll fully agree that the bad rep due to home/small office products is probably well deserved.
Then there are the industrial printing products (https://www.hp.com/us-en/industrial-digital-presses.html) which are rather mind bogglingly fast and capable. Imagine a printer printing to a paper roll 40" wide at hundreds of feet per second, and the printing is paper statements to be cut and sorted for mailing.
Planned obsolescence, Lack of innovation, High cost of consumables, Inadequate software support, Inconsistent product quality, Poor customer service.. not sure why you feel the need to defend them. They're prolly the one of the worst companies alive..
Eh, it's not just home/small office. Their proliant servers took a pretty big nosedive around Gen 9 or so.
I'm sure they still have some nice specialized industrial equipment, but their general purpose computers, even on the high end, just aren't what they used to be
People need to be careful they don't overgeneralize too much about HP. Especially if basing opinions on home/small office product lines, which is not all HP does. I'll fully agree that the bad rep due to home/small office products is probably well deserved.
But HP has some pretty interesting and successful products such as the Life Sciences dispensers for cells and fluids (see https://www.hp.com/us-en/specialty-printing-solutions/life-s...).
Then there are the industrial printing products (https://www.hp.com/us-en/industrial-digital-presses.html) which are rather mind bogglingly fast and capable. Imagine a printer printing to a paper roll 40" wide at hundreds of feet per second, and the printing is paper statements to be cut and sorted for mailing.