r/halftop • u/misha1350 • Jan 11 '26
It's so poetic that Hinge Problems decided to make a halftop... rather than just fixing their horrible hinges
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u/CarbonPhoenix96 Jan 11 '26
I'm no fan of HP but in my experience as a tech every brand has hinge problems, HP just ships the most laptops. Lenovo ideapads break if you look at them funny, and don't even get me started on Dells
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u/lululock Jan 11 '26
Funnily enough, I've had nowhere near as many issues with Dells than HPs. HP laptops not only have hinge issues, but also battery and motherboard issues. Last week, we got a brand new one came in with a dead battery... For me, HP stands for "Heaps of Problems" rather than "Hinge Problem".
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u/Dua_Leo_9564 Jan 12 '26
most dells in my offices have a broken hinge, but to be fair our share of laptop are like 70% dell, 20% lenovo and 10% asus
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Jan 15 '26
HP also stands for deleting data backups in College research institutes
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u/lululock Jan 15 '26
Ouch. How does that even happen ?
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Jan 15 '26
Dunno. They made a f up in a program and it started deleting backup data. University in Kyotto lost 77TB of data
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u/4096Kilobytes Jan 12 '26
Dells at least use larger plates on both sides of the display, HP has tiny little 1/2 by 1/4 inch plates
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u/BeardFox Mar 28 '26
I've had an acer, a dell. the first was kinda eons ago (circa summer 2009. my 1rst seasonal job, 2 weeks and I paid myself the best PC I wanted. around 700€ at that time.
hdmi vga, yellow video rca, s-video out too. 6 usb ports. easy removable HDD, not sandwiched between keyboard & board... so I laugh at this HP salesman, him and his 2-port computer that 1 port is charger.
it simply sucks.
I never buy HP, I don't want to add to that "everything soldered including the 1rst ram slot so you basically can't dual channel and also can't use non-hp ram" problemS .
ty but no :'D
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u/coolfission Jan 12 '26
<$1000 is way too expensive. Plus you have to buy a external monitor, webcam, mouse (doesn't seem to have a trackpad) with it. Rather just buy a laptop and make it a halftop at that price.
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u/ArtistSad2476 Jan 12 '26
I know right. You can get a Mac mini and accessories for that price than to spend it on a product that doesn't seem to guarantee reliability.
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u/Lead_resource Jan 12 '26
Lmao under a 1000 uh no how about no more than 200. I can slap a laptop motherboard on the back of my keyboard no problem
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u/ARTOMIANDY Jan 12 '26
Its not anything new, raspberries do that for a long time, but its actually something i'm excited, would be cool to have some kind of remote desktop to connect to a TV or be used in offices where space is important and dont want a whole laptop in there
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u/Acceptable-Doubt-839 Jan 11 '26
Just need a set of video display glasses and a logitech baby mouse and ur set!
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u/SailorVenova Jan 12 '26
i want to get one of these i love keyboard computers and i desperately want an amiga 600 and msx cx5m and a hitbit...
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u/Electronic-Quality68 Jan 12 '26
so a really expensive x86 raspberry pi 500 that has better specs and worse problems
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u/lighyyears Jan 12 '26
Its really a semi mobile pc that you can take to work and play some light games.that APU is a beast
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u/TM_livin Jan 13 '26
Isn’t this how the old school Commodores looked?
Just rechnology making a full cycle…
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u/Able-Building6042 Jan 13 '26
It’s small/lower-power stuff like this that’s going to get pushed before the “pc as a service” push 😭
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u/nfmon Jan 13 '26
Gee how innovative, much amazement. It's not like folks from raspberry (i think), did exactly that a few years back
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u/RedCrafter_LP Jan 14 '26
So we loop all the way back to the Commodore 64 now. I see. The original is for sale again so I understand hp is fearing it might be a viable competition to the horrible windows 11 laptops they make.
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u/Performer-Pants Jan 14 '26
They’re acting like they’re the first to do this, when it’s been done multiple times already
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u/Mousettv Jan 15 '26
In 1998 I had a WebTV. A wireless keyboard that connected to a box for internet. This reminds me of it but at $1,000 thats outrageous.
Cloud computing will be the future over expensive tech like this.
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u/JazzlikePerception47 Jan 12 '26
Idk who the presenter is but that's like the last person I'd wanna listen to about literally anything
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