here's my story. excuse me if it's a little personal.

hewlett-packard. a fairly good company that sells its PCs and low-quality junk out pretty well. as a joyful bonus, HP always includes its worthless and cheap software that alway requires more programs than usual to accomplish a task. for those of us, like myself, that have a limited budget purchase the cheapest printer on the matket when we see it, which happens to be an HP. now as we install the worthless software, our computer becomes cluttered due to the takeover of HP software. no problem. just install the extra junk. there is the legend of HP software.
now we may discuss their fabulous computers. HP motherboards have long been compatible with HP hardware, hard drives, and other self-centered things like external hard drives that plug into the "special" compartment that are only compatible with sepcial HP computers. humph. also, for the sake of their pride and whatever, they will not allow anyone to overclock the cpu through BIOS. now. HP has done it. this really ticked me off: the day i saw HP on the ipod box. apple, one of the very few warriors against the monopoly against microsoft, needs to be funded. apple was counting pennies due to it's unpopularity (microsoft would snicker about now...) and was in desperate need to make a profitable business agreement. HP welcomed Apple in with a hand outstretched and a knife behind its back. now, HP is everywhere. and they stink. and i them. your thoughts would be apperciated.

i feel for you HP was my first computer and it sucked to the lowest level of hell.

gez well that sure sucks. though i might add i also have a printer from apple and all i have on my pc is the driver. and it works great. except maybe it takes a lot of ink and the papers jam all the time but it works fine.

Now when i plugged it into my mac mini i didnt even need the driver cd. It just worked and i could print ( not sure wether this is because of hp or apple ).

Anyways i always liked apple products in the past and probably wont like there hp togetherness but yeah.

hmm... I've never had a problem with my HP PC, printer or anything. Maybe it's because i didn't get the cheapest one? Someone made a thread here in the vent recently about how evil Dell was... IT's probably the same deal, you have to go up one or two notches in the line before you get something that's not going to fail on you or be a disappointment. That really stinks that they have to do that.

I have a HP scanner, but it works fine to me, the only thing wich is useless is the software wich comes with it. They better make Scanners and stuff compatible with Photoshop, that would save a lot of time and frustration