Thursday, January 11, 2007

Tell HP Your Opinion

Over the last two years or so, I have switched from using Dell computers to HP, mainly because I was interested in 64-bit computing, and for a while Dell did not sell any computers with AMD64 chips. They seem to have shifted away from the Intel-only policy but as far as I am concerned, it is too late.

Besides, I like the sturdiness of HP machines better (I own an Pavilion desktop and a DV6000z laptop). Great hardware.

They also work great with Linux, which brings me to the point of this post. We do not use Windows at home, yet anytime I buy a new machine, I have to pay for Winblows. There's no way to find a bare-bones HP machine. I sent them an email to express my frustration, and I invite you to do the same.

They are already being sued in Europe (http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1214/061215frenchhp/) and I hope it sends them the right signal.

2 comments:

Max Lybbert said...

We don't use Windows at home either, although we do have two Apples. I also am looking into various ways to get a Windows-only wifi card to work on a non-Windows computer (either through NDiswrapper or freedos) to expand our home network.

Cristache said...

I use ndiswrapper on my laptop.