HP: A falling brand

[AT99Scorpion]

Has anyone else had issues with HP computers from 2009 and newer?

Any HP laptop or desktop I come in contact with today either has over heating issues or breaks down easily.

[BlackHawk7]

YES I HAVE. My notebook from 2009 has suffered these issues. Never going with HP again...

[2.0™]

2007 edition of TX2500 finally died on me. Heat issues as is usual for this model. Replaced with HP Elitebook 2760P.

[excalibur1814]

All oem companies have issues... ALL OF THEM! ...Not just HP.

For example: Samsung recently released the Series 7 slate and every single one has a screen separation defect so what did Samsung do? Nothing. Nada. Ziltch. Return the tablet and if you're lucky the replacement will have the new bonding which still doesn't fix the issue 100% of the time.

Dell, Acer, Samsung, Sony... all have issues. The last few machines I've owned

Samsung 7 Slate: Screen problem
Toshiba Z830: Non-stop fan
HP 8460p: Stupidly crazy fan
HP 2560p: No problem at all
HP 5330m: No problem at all
HP Envy 13: No problem at all
Dell Latitude ST: No problem at all
Dell Duo: One experienced a failed hard drive (Hardly Dells fault) and the other sometimes fails to turn on.
Acer 8920g: Screen failed twice!
HP 2740p: No problem at all

The list goes on and on.

P.s. The warranty only lasts for a year and I pretty much expect nothing more from any of them these days. You want quality then get an Elitebook and ADP warranty.
P.P.s. Most of the latest HP models have quite an aggressive fan profile so most models won't suffer from overheating unless it's a quad qm mobile cpu

[BlackHawk7]

Makes me reconsider notebooks in general anymore. They're fine but problems occurred for me just a year and 4 months after, continuing into 2 1/2 years (today).

[Pranalien]

Has anyone else had issues with HP computers from 2009 and newer?

Any HP laptop or desktop I come in contact with today either has over heating issues or breaks down easily.

My HP Pavilion dv9000 series purchased in 2007 failed 8 times in total. Motherboard was replaced 6 times. I even contacted HP CEO team for replacement. However HP India proved to be the biggest scum. So I promptly dropped my support for this company. Didn't deserve my money.

[Lvivkse]

My older HP was a piece of junk but for the time it was decent (cost over 1k so not worth the price) and held up for the year or two I owned it (it's been thrown out since so something must have happened to it, definitely wasn't made to last)

compaq held up nice but my brother burned a hole through the screen....long story

sony sr was a piece of junk, multiple issues. couldn't give it away now.

[my brother then bought a vaio and it had loads of problems, including the loudest, craziest fan ever made and relentless slowdowns for no reason]

envy 14, no issues at all.

[Mr.Mischief]

A lot of the 2006-2008 HP laptops used faulty Nvidia chips, thus high failure rate. But, this problem wasn't just HP laptops, most laptops using the Nvidia 6, 7, and 8 series seemed to fail frequently. Google Dell xps m1530 failure.

[saturnotaku]

It's funny because I had a MacBook Pro with one of those notorious GeForce 8600 GPUs, and never had a problem. The person to whom I eventually sold it is still using it - 4-1/2 years and going strong.

[Raficoo]

I have a 2008 dv5(A.K.A "The Oven") and my solution to it's super-heater is a $6 cooling pad, so far 3 years 3 months works perfectly and the only problem I had with it was a Battery change.

I've also tried my friend's dv6 and I noticed HP optimized the ventilation, and I have another friend who has a dv6 as well and they both say they haven't had any negative feedback on them.

also another friend with a G6 says he was happy with it

To be honest I don't see the generalization that "DON'T BUY HP; STAY AWAY FROM HP; HP SUCKS" to be really accurate

I've been an HP user since 2002 and besides really minor problems I never actually Raged on them.