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HP denies it's selling its PC business
SELLER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP has issued a statement saying that it is not selling its PC business, despite reports in Chinese language newspapers that it was considering doing so.
Taiwan's Commercial Times printed the initial report, which was picked up by the ever reliable Digitimes. The newspapers suggested that a deal was on the cards with Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2010 but that it fell through for an "unknown reason".
Bill Wohl, SVP and chief communications officer at HP called the suggestions that HP was selling its PC business "irresponsible reporting". He denied that there was any truth to the report and said that it should be "dismissed as market rumour and speculation".
Wohl was also keen to state that the company's PC business, which he noted is the largest in the world, is integral to HP's global strategy.
While HP's PC business did not pull in as much revenue lately as had been expected, it seems very unlikely that it would sell off such an important part of the company. Despite this and HP's dismissal, speculation might continue over the future of its PC division for some time. µ
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I agree, if HP sold its PC division it would pretty well sink itself. I dont think Leo Apotheker is that stupid.
HP does have a good thing going with their warranty support, their outsourced tech support leaves a little to be desired, but the warranty support is pretty good. Since buying my last HP laptop (a DV7), they've upped the ante a little and now offer in home warranty replacement for most issues, which is even better.
I've always liked HP's laptops, i'm on my 4th generation DV laptop. I've had 5 in all, 2x DV8000, DV9500, DV9700 and my current DV7-2000.
One thing that makes their support stand out is their case managers and their replacement policy. if they cant fix your laptop correctly after 3 attempts, they give you a new one. when they replace it, the case managers usually throw in some upgrades for your trouble. they've replaced 2 laptops of mine, when they replaced my DV9500 after getting water damaged, there wasn't a lot of room for the case manager to upgrade it because when i ordered it, i ordered it with everything topped out, only a 100mhz faster CPU had been released since i ordered mine so the case threw that in and gave me a second battery and a TV tuner free. who could complain about that.
Its too bad HP has lost its love for AMD and cut the number of models available with AMD CPU's, because of that, this DV-7 i'm using now will probably be my last HP laptop.
If this rumor is true, fire Leo Apotheker for stupidity.
HP has good service when it comes to RMA their laptops, with a turn around time of a few hours + time of shipping. Sometimes as low as 3 days !
HP printer market could not survive alone without the notebook+desktop market to bundle the printers with and/or to help push the printers.
THe printer market is already crowded. And samsung is becoming a major competitor in the printer market. So if HP sold of their laptop business, they would be handing over their printer business to samsung as well, except for the business segment as they have more brand loyalty and rely on the laser printers.
Overall bad more. The more HP products a company sells, the more HP products the consumer will probably end up with. THis strategy is working for samsung, as they have their hand into everything right down to the various components.
with webos, HP has a chance to emulate apple, in how apples devices are interconnectible, making one device n extension of the other, helping increase sales and brand power.
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