Paul ThurrottYou break my heart.
Mike Cerm@thurrott The HP Support Assistant did this?! Another good reason to avoid HP products.
@MikeCerm The upsells in Lenovo products is much worse. This is not a reason to choose/not choose a laptop.
@thurrott Not the main reason, just another reason. My primary reason is because they bought Palm and immediately killed it along with WebOS, and I'll never get over it. It's petty, but there are plenty other companies that make better products anyway, so who cares. Final reason is that HP's affordable laptops are all made out of the worst plastic that seems to crack and fall apart more easily than other cheap laptops I've worked on. Also, their DRM'd printers need to die.
@MikeCerm That's like avoiding German beer because of World War II. Maybe it's time to move on.
HP makes the best premium portable PCs in the world.
@thurrott That may be true, but I'm not going to spend $1000+ on any premium portable PC when they can't even match the performance and battery life of a $600 M1 MacBook Air. There are lots of perfectly fine PC laptops in the $500-800 range with the same CPUs you find in premium laptops, but I wouldn't buy any of those right now either. Until the next-gen Snapdragon laptops hit the market, there's nothing that can compete with Apple. (And I say this as something who'd rather not use Mac OS).
@MikeCerm I'm looking forward to the same thing. It won't be long.