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Hewlett-Packard's logo is awesomeHP's logo designHP spun off a small company, Dynac, to specialize in digital equipment. The name was picked so that the HP logo "hp" could be turned upside down to be a reverse reflect image of the logo "dy" of the new company. Eventually Dynac changed to Dymec, then was folded back into HP in 1959.HP's logo is still the same.Source: Hewlett-Packard

These other answers are pretty bad. Basically people saying “I have one and it’s fine” and “I refuse to believe I bought garbage”.Fact is HP as a brand makes the LEAST reliable laptops. As someone who has made a living repairing computers for over 20 years I can tell you unequivocally that it’s far worse than even these stats reveal.This simple bar graph doesn’t reveal the types of failures. With HP it’s largely motherboard failures. This is about the worst thing to have happen to your laptop as it is almost never worth it to pay what it costs to replace the motherboard, and even if it did the replacement would still be the same exact model of failure-prone motherboard.Acer, for example, looks almost as bad but their failures tend to be largely things like broken plastic hinge covers and key caps coming off, not cool, but the computer is still usable. Though they do seem to have a lot of motherboard failures as well.Now Dell, they look pretty middle of the road, but they are actually the best mix of price-performance-reliability-repairability.So if we start by dismissing every brand to the right of Dell as less reliable, I’ll explain why every brand to the left is disqualified as well.Apple: Double to triple the price for the same specs, difficult to impossible to repair, doesn’t come with the most popular OS. Less than 1% more reliable than Dell.Sony: Well they quit the industry and no longer make computers so forget them.Toshiba: Two things, these stats were release before Toshiba entered the low end market, if they were updated they would look much worse. But more importantly Toshiba literally cripples the performance of every laptop they sell by drowning it in “Toshiba Crap” so if you buy a 3ghz i7 it’s gonna feel like a 2.3ghz. Now all the makers install their junk but Toshiba installs way way more of it and it’s more difficult to remove. Dozens and dozens of Toshiba and third party junk bogging down your brand new computer. Some of which you cant just uninstall because you’ll get errors every time you boot up. You basically need to reformat your brand new computer soon as you buy it if you want it to perform up to it’s specs. Also their customer service and warranty resolution is worse than Dell or HP.Asus: They built their business supplying their super reliable motherboards to other companies, first and foremost Dell. Their laptops tend to be reliable, as the graph indicates. The problem comes in when you do have a problem. Trying to get them to honor a warranty is like pulling teeth, their company is not set up for dealing with retail customers and it shows every time you have to interact with them. For one hilarious example consider the fact that they don’t even have a spare parts department in their company!Dell: Their customer service and warranty support is “barely tolerable” which is far better than all the rest except Apple. And their out-of-warranty repairs are actually even sometimes cost effective. They’re generally among the easiest to disassemble and reassemble so out of pocket repairs are cheaper, the parts are readily available and their motherboards last for 10+ years in most cases.So Dell wins. Not because they are super fantastic, no one “builds them like they used to” but because literally everyone else is either worse, or double to triple the price for slightly better.I could go on and on with far more details and reasons for each of these points but I think you get the idea.

I was teaching a class at an HP office in Carly Fiorina's last week. There were a number of customers on the course, and also a number of HP internal staff.During a break on Monday, all the HP staff were talking about how they didn't see much future at HP, and were asking the customers what jobs were going at their companies and looking for career advice.The switch from glumness and hopelessness to buzz and excitement that happened after she left in the middle of that week was as clear as anything I've ever seen. The HP internal staff started talking about having a future at HP, got excited about the new stuff I was teaching them and started trying to convince the customer staff to come and work for HP.I watched this, and commented on the change of behaviour of the HP staff. Their universal response was: "yes, Carly's gone now".To be fair to Carly Fiorina, perhaps there other matters driving this -- a change of CEO it always an interesting time, for good or for bad; and it could have been co-incidence. As someone from outside the USA, I've no idea whether she would make a good president or not. The skills required for presidency aren't the same as running a business, and there's no reason a terrible CEO couldn't make a fabulous president and vice versa.But, as far as being CEO of HP: every single HP employee I interacted with that week was positively jubilant that her time as CEO was over. This is not the kind of ringing endorsement that would indicate a wise or successful CEO.