• slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    HP tech here. Stay FAR away from any of their consumer-grade devices. They’re cheap, poorly built, and difficult for even HP techs to work on. Save your money and get something with better build quality.

    Their business-class devices are okay, because most of those actually have decent build quality and are easily repaired. But stay away from their cheap devices, especially their printers (obviously).

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      1 year ago

      We are also an HP/HPE shop.
      Like you said. Not the cheap shit. And definitely not the cheap printer shit!
      ProDesk or EliteDesk (maybe even used?)

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for this, good to know. I’ve had nothing but problems with my HP and had many a day of wanting to schwing it out the window.

      Any particular brand out there that’s still known for decent build quality? I feel wary of them all now.

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        1 year ago

        I have two oki mc363’s (office and home).

        Cost about $600, 6 years ago. Weighs about 30kg, must have a cast iron chassis or something.

        Rock solid, great printer scanner in every way. Wouldn’t change a thing.

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          1 year ago

          My parents have an okidata microline 82 that still prints. One of the dots hits a little light these days.

          They also have a 1994 HP LaserJet 4 plus that is still chugging along. Back from when HP made decent printers.

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          1 year ago

          Except their printers are good awful to get hold of without the connect X here and there stuff.
          Give my my god damn driver without all the other shit to connect via USB to my god damn scanner!

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      11 months ago

      The Omen laptops are pretty good as well. Even the fan blades are made of aluminum. But I would avoid their desktop PCs because they use proprietary components.

      Like any other company, some products they make are junk but others are decent.