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My wifes office bought one of those all in one units.

It refused to install the driver without upgrading Internet Explorer AND having full access to the internet.

Never again will I buy another HP product....

I locked the access once the driver was installed and I used a tool to save the drivers as an exe for future use....

HP can take their SpyProducts and their smart chip enabled ink cartridges and stick them where the sun never shines...
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what model is it???
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/me shrugs

Every company does that no a days, I stay away from everything low market end from HP, Compaq, Gateway, eMachines.

I use Dell for any non custom work I do, and they haven't lead me wrong so far, every big server I have is a dell box, even my home dev server is a dell, as well as my laptop.
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The only I've ever bought from HP is printers and scanners. I've been satisfied to date... One thing though; never in a million years would I buy a pc from them.
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Their printers are even subpar, a good printer has seperated ink tanks.. not combined..

This is again for their entry level items, high business class hardware is a differnt story.
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I want to say it is a 2700...

It was between 5 and 6 hundred...
Hardly entry level or home use...

I also have a HP2000 Pro...
It has individual tanks and individual heads for all colors

The tanks and heads are smart chipped and even if they are half full or the heads are functioning fine they shut down the printer until THE RANSOM is paid to HP...

Not every company does it...
I have a low end canon $125 (Individual ink tanks) no spyware and no smart chips. It does shut down if the ink blotter is full, but Canon gives you the reset code. If it overflows it is my own fault... Many people reset it 2 or 3 times before they really need to replace it (a $6 part available online...)
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Don't HP make compaq pcs?
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Quote originally posted by Thong_Ispector ...
I want to say it is a 2700...

It was between 5 and 6 hundred...
Hardly entry level or home use...

I also have a HP2000 Pro...
It has individual tanks and individual heads for all colors

The tanks and heads are smart chipped and even if they are half full or the heads are functioning fine they shut down the printer until THE RANSOM is paid to HP...

Not every company does it...
I have a low end canon $125 (Individual ink tanks) no spyware and no smart chips. It does shut down if the ink blotter is full, but Canon gives you the reset code. If it overflows it is my own fault... Many people reset it 2 or 3 times before they really need to replace it (a $6 part available online...)
Cannon makes printers, and cameras and a few other optical devices, they are not a computer company.

Thats why you don't see this, I am refering to most entry level home computer companies, eMachines, HP, Compaq, etc.

And when I say entry level, I'm talking about home user basis, you get a enterprise level, or even large business level, there is a huge difference in quaility.
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Quote originally posted by Zachery ...
Their printers are even subpar, a good printer has seperated ink tanks.. not combined..
I prefer the way HP does things. No trouble with having to send the printer in for repairs when the printhead gets clogged up with ink after not using the thing for a while (had that happen more than once).
And even if you do have to throw some ink away once in a while it's in my experience still usually cheaper too than separate inks (each cartridge for say a Canon here costs about the same as a multi-colour HP cartridge having almost the same amount of ink of EACH colour in it).

And of course they last very long and keep supplying ink for out of production printers years and years into the future.
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Quote originally posted by Electrohead04 ...
Don't HP make compaq pcs?
Yes and no. They took over Compaq and so own the production lines, but Compaq have separate design and production facilities from HP (for as long as it lasts, I expect "consolidation" to happen in the not too distant future).
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