{"id":476,"date":"2006-06-20T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=476"},"modified":"2006-06-20T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:11:51","slug":"hp-pavillion-continues-to-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"HP Pavillion Continues to Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubu Roi has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/houblog.com\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/362#more-362\">horror story involving an HP Pavillion<\/a>.  I have had my own issues with <a href=\"?p=252\">HP Pavillion<\/a> in the past.  <\/p>\n<p>I hate these machines because of the misery they spread.  Their low prices ensnare the less-savvy, and invariably their proprietary bits of hardware, vault-like case configurations, and greedy bloatware all cause frustration and headaches.  The hapless user will then call their freind who &#8220;knows all about computers&#8221;.  If you happen to be that person in your circle of friends, then you are going to be dealing with a lot of these machines.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have both had to tangle with HP \/ Compaq machines from time to time, and the experience is always a miserable waste of time.  These are machines designed by people from marketing and not engineers.  <em>&#8220;Sure, we could use an off-the-shelf power supply, but if we use this HP-only version then we can charge people an arm and a leg if it burns out.  All we have to do is make sure the power supply costs a little less than a new computer.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know what can be done about this.  I know better than to get one of these machines, but I can&#8217;t stop everyone else from buying them.  I keep waiting for HP to get some comeuppance the way DELL has recently, but so far it isn&#8217;t happening.  They should have an Edsel-ish reputation by now, yet they keep selling new machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubu Roi has a nice horror story involving an HP Pavillion. I have had my own issues with HP Pavillion in the past. I hate these machines because of the misery they spread. Their low prices ensnare the less-savvy, and invariably their proprietary bits of hardware, vault-like case configurations, and greedy bloatware all cause frustration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}