About Meg Whitman/HP - boycott from now on.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

If I remember correctly, Meg is anti gay marriage and promised to uphold and expand prop 8 if she was elected gov of CA.

I can't believe the HP board appointed such a polarizing character.

[Mz Pip]

1. I'm pissed

I just bought a new HP computer 3 days ago. :cry: If I had known about this I would have bought something else.

[Tesha]

3. Tak it back? (NT)

[Mz Pip]

11. No

All my files have been transferred - took about 18 hours to do it. And it runs so much better than my old 'puter. It's fast and it has a graphics card that enables me to run 3D design programs.

Sorry. I am really happy.

I guess I'm just happy that I bought it before Nutmeg screwed it up.

[KeepItReal]

4. Dell is even worse. Big time Bush & Co boosters

Sorry

[Initech]

9. And major proponents of outsourcing.

[Warpy]

5. Fortunately the fucking idiots are talking about spinning off

and eventually dropping the hardware division so they can concentrate on software. I hope it happens. I've favored their hardware for a very long time, it's simple and durable.

[ChandlerJr]

2. I'm running out of options here

Apple: Product of slave Chinese labor being driven to suicide.

Lenovo: Owned by the Chinese gvmt., who knows how they treat their slaves

Dell: Michael Dell contributed to George Bush

Who even knows about the rest of them, and now HP too?

I wonder if the old Commodore64 in the closet still works.

[Posteritatis]

6. Rolling your own's still an option if you're going the desktop route...

I went component-by-component on my new one, spent a little less than I would have with a store-bought whole system, and am pretty happy with the result. (It's also a neat learning experience, provided you're into that sort of thing, which you might be if you've got a C64 in the house.)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Guess Carly Fiorini didn't fuck it up enough.

HP used to make quality products and was one of the best companies to work for.

[Initech]

8. At least get her out of politics.

[Shagbark Hickory]

10. I'm not a fan of HP products to begin with. Nor am I a fan of bigotted women of power.

Then again I'm not a fan of boycotts. They don't do didley squat nowadays.

If a company does the right thing, then billo the clown or someone like that will call for a boycott.
If a company does something we don't like then boycott boycott boycott.

Just about every large company has an entire board of bigoted rightwingers. You can't boycott them all.

It's just a waste of energy.

[PA Democrat]

12. We had 2 HP laptops with motherboard failures within 18 months of purchase.

I'll never buy another HP product.

[customerserviceguy]

13. After Carly Fiorina

Meg looks like a genius. I've recommended against HP crap for years, it's all trash. Tomorrow, a co-worker is going to bring me his daughter's HP laptop to repair, it's only a year and a half old, already headed for the junk heap except for my interventions.

[ellisonz]

14. Apple.