HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld
HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld
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I'd never buy anything HP again. They earned 1st place on my do-nerver-ever-even-consider list with bravado some 25 years ago already.
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Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn't give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.
They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol...
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But it would still be an HP so... gross.
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Prove your worth my time by making me a good printer hp.
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Are their printers bad? I haven't even tried any in decades because their business practices are so awful, but I always thought that at the very least the printers themselves should be good.
Sadly, Brother's printers might be going on the same direction now.
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HP has gotten in trouble multiple times now for firmware updates that intentionally brick their own printers, usually in an effort to stop people from using 3rd-party ink. Their system for verifying authentic ink is unreliable though so everytime they do it they also brick a bunch of printers that are overpaying for HP ink.
Generally HP is the poster child for the worst inkjet printer company.
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My understanding is the Brother fiasco turned out to be baseless. At the very least, nobody else has stepped forward to corroborate the issues that were claimed.
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HP
Good printer
That's an oxymoron
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I know HP printers are generally considered the worst printers you can get, but I don't really know how good their other product lines are.
It's different departments, so possibly they could make a decent handheld? Mainly it's just good to hear hardware companies are aware of how bad windows is for gaming devices.
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When I was younger I had an HP and a Campaq laptop. Both were garbage.
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I had an omen laptop with a 2060 and it was alright. I wanted better performance on a 1440p monitor so I sold it for a desktop build.
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HP is all over the place, they do make trash, but their business laptops are usually pretty good.
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I have never had an HP devices with a screen where the screen did not die.
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The Dev One laptop wasn’t half bad as a collab between HP and System76. Full AMD hardware stack, easy RAM and storage upgrades, Pop!_OS from the factory.
Came with WiFi 5 (easy enough to upgrade to 6) and no TPM/Secure Boot capabilities, has the typical HP flimsy display hinges, and the 1920x1080 glossy display has the worst viewing angles in history, but I guess that makes it quarter-bad rather than half.
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HP typically makes garbage nowadays, so I dunno how many people are clamoring for them to make a handheld.
Because competition just makes the Steam Deck better and cheaper
If the competition make some good portables, Valve will probably leave the hardware to them and focus only on the software.
I'm not going to buy one but I'm always interested to see what they can make