Hewlett-Packard (HP)

sharmsharm - U think they're bad... try DELL... OMG! OMG! Them and Boost mobile phones and Metro PCS cells are the top worst in America what is it with companies that have NO customer service or that hire forginers to answer their phones? There R people right here in america who would be happy to have those jobs.. bring American jobs home. Americans SZTOP doing business with companies who treat us like this... we crate these monsters... I am looking to buy HP 17.3" Intel Dual Core, 4GB RAM, 640GB HD, Windows7,Webcam - anyone know anything about that?? I heard the Apple is great! But I can't afford it I usually buy off QVC.COM because they give Easy Pay options... help me make the right decision guys?? Anyone there??

great company, have the best high-end products with spectacular prices, and the best quality budget products. they have the widest range of products, support, and knowledge than any other computer company i have ever incountered. keep up the good work ;)

I had one that lasted a long time, but then it just completely broke down. Somehow we gave it to someone else to keep a few years ago and it started working somewhat, although it didn't have internet and you couldn't play games on it then, but it was just to teach someone the basics of using a computer. I would give HP about 2 1/2 stars.

The worst customer support team out there.  I spent $3000 on a new HP with Vista and completely loaded in April and it's now December and have regretted this purchase everyday!  It's not just Vista and I won't even go there.  You will call for technical support and first you will ge "customer service" which is a totally different team that must take your information and diagnose your problem before sending you on the "technical support".  Well good luck getting that far, customer service is in India.  Nothing against anyone from India but Indians should do support for India, Japanese should do support for Japan, and Americans should do support for america and so on!  There is the language barrier and it just does not work, here's what happened.  The one time that I finally made it through to technical support and an English speaking American, they set me up for an in home repair (as service I paid and extra $350+ for when I purchased the computer) to replace my faulty hard drive.  The ... Read more

Builds quality computers for decent prices also has nice case designs that were once ahead of their time in PC's making them formidable to Apple in more ways than pure power. (and yes x86 IS more powerful than PPC, and it's soon to come replacement will be too ;) )