HP has laptop subscriptions now

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Companies pivoting to rent seeking is an awful trend.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Companies are an awful trend.

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  • cv_octavio@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it’s people. Corporations are people too remember? The government says so.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fine print is worse. If you cancel, you owe a fee equal to the rental price for the remainder of the year.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so at this point just buy the damn computer is what i’m taking from this?

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  e machines did this back in the 90’s/00’s to predictably failed results.

  Everything old is new again…

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “This computer will never go out of date” indeed.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bleak.

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  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Starting at $35 per month you too can rent an AI laptop that will fulfill HP’s every need.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s actually not that expensive if it keeps them alive, they are notoriously hell bent on harming themselves

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not so distant future. Subscriptions on premium air… basic air includes toxins. Same for water. The fuckers that created the contamination are the ones selling the subscription. CAPITALISM!

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• alpha1beta@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • FirmDistribution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The exec behind that needs to be homeless

    god bless 🙏

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• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  7.HP AI Companion requires 32GB RAM for local processing.

  WHAT THE FUCK

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is surprising about this? LLMs are giant memory consumers.

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    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yea, i’m surprised, 32GB is goddamn ridiculous for anything, let alone for a shitty hp branded autocorrect

      fuck AI, fuck HP, and fuck “laptop subscription”

      the saddest thing is, people will sign up, if for no other reason than they have no other option

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nothing says trustworthy like half a kilometre of disclaimers

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• DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  $85 a month for a decent laptop? Yeah, nah.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mmmmm lets see here

  for the pavillion 16…

  $34.99 a month with no protection plans available and no option to buy out over time…

  or $979.99 for a one off purchase with the ability to have a protection plan ontop of it (this same laptop is also on a sale via HP for 429$ if you use their financing system…)

  I don’t see how this is helpful to the general consumer. The typical user doesn’t replace their laptop every year, and at the prices they give you end up breaking even around 2 years. You would need to be processing an upgrade at least every 2.3 years in order to make your money worth it.

  I can see how this could be helpful for a company that has temp workers… but even then it’s not like the company couldn’t just re-provision the laptop and give it to the next person.

  I could see this being more handy if accidental was included on it, but out of the current offerings it’s just not worth it for anyone.

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• glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HP has happily facilitated occupation, apartheid and genocide for decades. Fuck em straight to hell

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck HP and everything they sell

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This sounds like leasing renamed. Not unusual in the enterprise space.

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• m3t00@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mouse clicks are refillable

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  • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not unlike leasing a car. It has its (tax) advantages.

  Having said that, this is Needful Things level of deal.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Add this to the post of reasons I stopped buying and selling HP.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ve exploited consumers to the point that they can’t even afford basic needs, but no worries, they’ll rent them back to you indefinitely.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Epstein class of billionaires demand that all serfs enter subscription for living, if you do not comply your taxes will find someone willing to enforce it. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really wonder who would (basically) rent a laptop. You can get used ones so cheap.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    businesses used to rent computers all the time but im not sure how many do in this millenia.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This doesn’t seem aimed at businesses.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People who want new but can’t afford the capital expense.

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  • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image I’m sure they’d love this.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• m3t00@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  bill gates level syphilitic abortion of a forced hardware upgrade

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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