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<p>I refuse most "updates". I think they're rarely worth the hassle
or the bugs even when issued in good faith, and more and more
often they're issued maliciously.</p>
<p>HP can spin-control about "protecting intellectual property" all
they want; these are existing printers where any proprietary
genies are already out of the bottle. They're just lying-ass
price-gouging con artists.<br>
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<p>I'm typing this on an old HP Pavilion billed as an "entertainment
pc". Nearly every laptop in existence has a feature sometimes
called "input monitor" that allows sound from the mic or line-in
to immediately (without latency) play back through headphones (but
not speakers). It's automatic, and is an entirely different (and
to a musician recording tracks, it's an incalculably superior)
feature to the LOSEdows high-distortion, high-latency "Listen to
this device" feature. Laying tracks requires constant quality
control: you absolutely have to hear what you're playing exactly
when you play it - and some instruments are best recorded
"direct-in" with no external amp/monitor (and thus no hassles with
mics). Further, if you're laying a track on top of other tracks -
say, a bass track for your existing drum track - you have to hear
your run-time bass and your recorded drums precisely together
without any humanly discernible delay anywhere in the chain.</p>
<p>Guess whether HP inexplicably and inexcusably disabled that
feature - which nearly every other computer in existence has. Mine
is old and I cannot find the information about which registry keys
(allegedly) re-enable it. This HP Pavilion is utterly worthless
for the task I bought it to perform, and I have no money to
replace it.<br>
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<p>Worse even than that, is the kinda heartbreaking thread from a
musician who spent hundreds and hundreds on a Pavilion <i>when it
was new </i>and then found it was exactly as worthless for him
- and found that HP absolutely would not even <i>respond </i>to
his repeated requests for help and support even back then. The
thread still exists on their own forum where he's practically
begging for support.</p>
<p>More than you wanted to know? It's just so that any would-be HP
apologists can maybe feel the helpless frustration and rage when a
customer-hostile and fraudulent company knowingly sabotages their
product and does not state that they have done so. HP makes a
habit of it.<br>
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Go out of business, HP. The sooner the better.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/2016 12:51 PM, Bob Elzer wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CANQAHVAm4ANKX92NdDjKkvexNvi4N17pi1AcUXag4FKyNnik4A@mail.gmail.com"
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<p dir="ltr">They should be made to state this on the printer and
box in bold writing.<br>
This printer locks out all cartridges that aren't brand new HP
cartridges.</p>
<p dir="ltr">See how fast their sales would drop then.<br>
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