Well, my HP PhotoSmart C6180 all-in-one printer supports 64-bit Windows from the very beginning - unlike my previous Lexmark X1150 for which I had to wait till after Vista was released. My HP DVD740 burner gave me a very good service - until its lens lost calibration and now refuses to accept DVD±RWs and most DVD±Rs. My HP PhotoSmart R607 camera has done me a lot of help since 2005 - only problem is it requires a lot of illumination in order to work fast without flash (and its flash sucks, gives my photos a very unnatural look). I once considered buying a HP keyboard to replace my beige IBM - until I saw the expensive Optimus Maximus concept. Still, I don't buy HP computers - their other products (printers, cameras, drives) are excellent, but not their own computers. Same thing with Dell - I don't buy their crappy computers, but still that doesn't stop me from owning a Dell 24" LCD. Same with Sony - I don't play Playstation (nor PS2 nor PS3 nor PSP, I am Nintendo fanboy), I don't have SACD (because there are no SACD-compatible DVD or Blu-ray drives for computers, but if there were then I'd start my SACD collection right away), I never got interest on MiniDisc (except perhaps to replace the floppy drive, but there are no computer MD drives, anyway my USB JumpDrives and SD cards have worked me better thus I call MD as dead as a floppy), their VAIO computers are utterly expensive (I prefer my own custom monster), their Blu-ray burners are not SATA (still ATAPI! Thankee God I have a LiteOn BD instead), I was born into VHS world and never saw Betamax in my life (I just bought an S-VHS recorder from Panasonic, yeah it's obsolete but now serves me as good recording backup now that my computer's CPU is currently dead, I'm writing this from a school computer which happens to be Dell), I never owned a Handycam (but my sister does), and their SRXD (or was it SXRD?) TVs are utterly expensive (I am DLP fanboy!), but still that never stopped me from keeping my sister's Discman for myself!
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Well, my HP PhotoSmart C6180 all-in-one printer supports 64-bit Windows from the very beginning - unlike my previous Lexmark X1150 for which I had to wait till after Vista was released. My HP DVD740 burner gave me a very good service - until its lens lost calibration and now refuses to accept DVD±RWs and most DVD±Rs. My HP PhotoSmart R607 camera has done me a lot of help since 2005 - only problem is it requires a lot of illumination in order to work fast without flash (and its flash sucks, gives my photos a very unnatural look). I once considered buying a HP keyboard to replace my beige IBM - until I saw the expensive Optimus Maximus concept. Still, I don't buy HP computers - their other products (printers, cameras, drives) are excellent, but not their own computers. Same thing with Dell - I don't buy their crappy computers, but still that doesn't stop me from owning a Dell 24" LCD. Same with Sony - I don't play Playstation (nor PS2 nor PS3 nor PSP, I am Nintendo fanboy), I don't have SACD (because there are no SACD-compatible DVD or Blu-ray drives for computers, but if there were then I'd start my SACD collection right away), I never got interest on MiniDisc (except perhaps to replace the floppy drive, but there are no computer MD drives, anyway my USB JumpDrives and SD cards have worked me better thus I call MD as dead as a floppy), their VAIO computers are utterly expensive (I prefer my own custom monster), their Blu-ray burners are not SATA (still ATAPI! Thankee God I have a LiteOn BD instead), I was born into VHS world and never saw Betamax in my life (I just bought an S-VHS recorder from Panasonic, yeah it's obsolete but now serves me as good recording backup now that my computer's CPU is currently dead, I'm writing this from a school computer which happens to be Dell), I never owned a Handycam (but my sister does), and their SRXD (or was it SXRD?) TVs are utterly expensive (I am DLP fanboy!), but still that never stopped me from keeping my sister's Discman for myself!