bill gates level syphilitic abortion of a forced hardware upgrade
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.
In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.
In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them
In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them
not only then. also if they make owning prohibitively expensive, or otherwise inaccessible.
I’m sure they’d love this.Didn’t everyone start off with a year in that movie?
That was the most unrealistic part, they’d absolutely make you pay upfront or you would just die instantly the moment you hit 21 or whatever the age limit was.
HP has happily facilitated occupation, apartheid and genocide for decades. Fuck em straight to hell
That’s actually not that expensive if it keeps them alive, they are notoriously hell bent on harming themselves
Dude if my parents could have paid 9.99 a month to keep my brother alive it would have saved them tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
That kids every existence was antithetical to the concept of safety.
Add this to the post of reasons I stopped buying and selling HP.
Fuck HP and everything they sell
Nothing says trustworthy like half a kilometre of disclaimers
$85 a month for a mediocre laptop that I’m probably not allowed to modify in any way? Yeah, nah.
mouse clicks are refillable
Some years ago there was a fake ad on that, but even then I couldn’t decide if that was a joke or a market test
I can’t wait for the the renewal where the price doubles, the speed is limited to protect the battery, the privacy policy changes and they share your browsing data in real time, sell your fingerprints and facial recognition data and give you kne day to renew at the higher price or cancel without penalty like those cocksuckers at Adobe do.
The exec behind that needs to be homeless
The exec behind that needs to be homeless
god bless 🙏
Ever since my first HP laptop – before I knew any better – I have despised HP and every product of theirs I’ve ever had to use. Consumer laptops full of bloatware. Online knowledge bases poorly designed. Printers full of bugs. Gah, they’re just the worst.
I really wonder who would (basically) rent a laptop. You can get used ones so cheap.
*This does not seem aimed at business.
People who want new but can’t afford the capital expense.
My employer leases our computers for 3-5 years. I get a new model when my lease runs out. I don’t really mind the guaranteed refresh except having to move all my stuff over. I would be way more pissed if they moved to BYOD.
businesses used to rent computers all the time but im not sure how many do in this millenia.
This doesn’t seem aimed at businesses.
yeah just responding in general. If it was cheap enough I could see doing it but it would have to be quite a savings because I keep my stuff going for awhile. Figure the yearly cost could not be any higher than 20% new but the cost would either have to go down over time or they would need to swap out for a new one each year.
It’s still likely less hassle than amortising capital expenses for something that will likely be written off well before end of life and then needing to dispose of it. As a consumer of fire sale disposed laptops, renting shouldn’t be allowed.
This sounds like leasing renamed. Not unusual in the enterprise space.
These also come with a 5G subscription. Not saying it justifies the price, and I don’t know what that would cost separately. But some of these prices are less than the cost of an ISP plan.
It’s a slippery slope. They get you with the cheap 5g, normalize laptop subscriptions, then in 10 years you’re renting hardware and it’s considered normal.
