The HP virus strikes again
I couldn’t help feel guilty the other day. A colleague casually mentioned to me that he had a HP laptop. Straight away, I asked him how old it was. ”12 months” was the reply. I jokingly told him that he had 2 months left on it before it committed firey suicide…
Yesterday, he came in and told me that it had indeed died. In actual fact, it died in exactly the same way as my one did. The wireless adapter suddenly disappeared and the laptop doesn’t seem to acknowledge that it even exists. I gave him the link for the free repair that HP performed for me. Still waiting to see if the laptop is in fact one of the models listed on the HP site, but I’d place a fair amount of money on it.
So, why call it a virus? It’s blatantly a case of poorly constructed hardware! Well unfortunately, I bought the 2 machines based on recommendation. Similarly, my colleague recommended the laptop to all his friends. So, there we have it, the curse of failing hardware, spread by the good intentions of happy customers early on in life, only to be become a whole web of disappointment, in say, 14 months…
