News - HP unveils Z1 all-in-one workstation with 27in IPS display

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The HP ProBook I used recently seemd nice enough.

However,I don't trust HP support for their consumer products though,especially after my experience with my HP 8450 high end photo printer.

[crossy]

The HP ProBook I used recently seemd nice enough. However,I don't trust HP support for their consumer products though,especially after my experience with my HP 8450 high end photo printer.

Aye, if it's any consolation then the internal support (HP-2-HP) can be just as bad. And blame for that is placed fairly and squarely at the door of Mark Hurd - he's quoted as saying that after sales support wasn't a priority. (Translation: it's an expensive overhead that we don't need - get rid of it!)

Whatever his faults Leo Apotheker did at least start to turn that around, and Meg Whitman (HP's current CEO) appears to be continuing that work, if not trying to take it to the next level. Certainly they're making the right noises about putting the customer first.

That said, that bit on The Big Bang Theory about Sheldon waiting for an hour on the HP support line, just to lodge a complaint about the support line always makes me smile.

[Whiternoise]

whats the purpose of the flip top? is this a touch enabled device?

Apparently not...

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articl...ing-80674.aspx

Fair reason, they say that fingers are too blunt for proper graphics work.

[StealMySoda1]

Damn. I want one.

[RAJA666]

Flip top is to make it easy to upgrade as all the components are very modular with the exception to display. But as typical of this type of design it come at a cost, the modular component then to be ultra expansive due to customisation.

[crossy]

Flip top is to make it easy to upgrade as all the components are very modular with the exception to display. But as typical of this type of design it come at a cost, the modular component then to be ultra expansive due to customisation.

Based on what I've read (haven't seen one "in the metal") I don't agree - we're not talking about discrete (i.e. non-standard) modules in the Zee-1 - this uses pretty much standard parts. Remember that it's not exactly difficult to change disks, memory, video etc - although having said that things aren't modularised it's not inconceivable that the disks might be in some form of carrier, like a laptop. The latter being the case, hopefully it's relatively easy to change them and HP haven't fallen into the trap of pushing expensive proprietary upgrades by making the empty disk carriers "unavailable".