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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days (philmckinney.substack.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago (13 children)

SAP's annual revenue while Leo served as its CEO was approximately $15 billion. The HP board hired a CEO whose largest organizational experience was running a company smaller than HP's smallest division. Based purely on revenue management experience, Apotheker wouldn't have qualified to be a Executive Vice President at HP, yet the board put him in charge of a $125 billion technology company.

HP's board has done a lot of messed up stuff. I wouldn't touch HP gear with a stick.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

(This is only tangentially related, sorry for the notification. I just want to complain. I hope you understand)

I bought a used, old HP laptop with a fairly capable AMD apu for some power and cost efficient gaming. Problem is that even though modern games can theoretically run on it at playable frame rates at very low settings, HP does not allow you to change how much RAM is dedicated to the GPU in BIOS. They have a setting, but its locked behind a BIOS only they have access to. Its quite frustrating that I have capable hardware but cannot use it to its full extent because of this software lockout. Knowing that they lock their consumer BIOS' down like this is absolutely keeping me from buying HP basically ever again, because I really want to make the most of my hardware and keep it all alive as long as possible to reduce waste, and they won't let me.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

This is VERY HP and does not surprise me at all. If they don’t know why they’re going down, it’s not because everyone didn’t tell them.

The regular HP printer threads are another example.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I had an hp laptop with a locked bios and there was a red flathead screw near the ssd that unlocked it.

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