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HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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The one time I got a prebuilt desktop for myself it was an HP Omen. Terrible decision.
Single unit radiator that struggled to cope with the CPU under any load, custom case so a larger rad AIO won't fit, buy a new case.
Usb controllers overwhelmed while streaming and gaming so bought a controller card. Nope, there is only one slot on the mobo and that's for graphics. (Yes, I should have checked first)
Useless bloatware always crashing and popping up over screen. Changes made to windows registry mean sounds fade in if no sound was played for a while (including alerts or memes on stream so you only hear the last part)
Many regrets.
Only tangentially related, but I'm still kind of pissed about HP buying VoodooPC and doing basic fuck-all with it and just slapping the Omen name on stuff once in a while.
For those who don't remember, VoodooPC used to be a higher end prebuilt gaming computer company. You can go ahead and argue about why prebuilts are trash, not really the point, I don't know if they were at all good computers or worth the cost, but I thought they made some really cool looking computers if nothing else, and occasionally had some pretty cool ideas. The omen was one of their flagship offerings.
I may be misremembering, it's been like a decade, but I think HP acquired them pretty soon after Dell bought Alienware so it was probably their way of trying to stay competitive. I think by most accounts Dell kind of turned Alienware into shit, but at least they've kept the branding around and still make some cool-looking computers if nothing else.
Yeah, Voodoo back then was super expensive but they were quality at least. High end paint jobs and custom watercooling (in an era when AIO watercoolers didn't exist). Definitely something to lust after.
Now it's another crappy name slapped onto a crappy HP
Yeah. I had all of this plus their awful locked BIOS. Ended up cannibalizing the cpu, gpu and ssds into a new case/mobo/psu. Super worth it.
You could wipe it and restart, remove the bloat from run at startup at least.