well hp is aware that laptops are quickly becoming out of reach money-wise for a larger and larger chunk of consumers, they just had to figure out some way to exploit that.

$420 a year for a laptop doesn’t sound like robbery at first, until you consider it’s just money out the window, and they’re 100% harvesting every 1 and every 0 input and output from that laptop that they still own/control. i haven’t even looked at the fine print, which i’m willing to bet makes the whole thing exponentially worse