HPFlunky

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They get paid to do it. The bloatware companies pay the manufacturers.

mine had racing stripes.

Love it, huge fan who was very excited when we bought them. I was really disappointed when HP decided to stop making new HW.

My Pre3 is still my main phone and I have a touchpad at home. I will likely abandon it in the next year or so now that its so long dead.

I was not aware of that. I am typing this on an 8470p right now in fact. I wonder if it is an issue with the product or maybe it was isolated to a specific batch of components. If you ordered 90 laptops it is likely that they would have all been fulfilled in the same production run and use the same component shipments. There is a big difference between a manufacturing issue with a product and a quality issue with a specific subcomponent. I hope it is the latter and your replacements work out better for you.

define "small printer" Failure rates are very low in general since most small printers have all the technology embedded in the print head, which is replaced every time you put a new cartridge in.

Sometimes new toner/ink for new printers is driven by improvements in the HW technology, and sometimes it is driven by the desire to limit the production of clone products. There is always a time lag between the intro of a new printer and the ability of refillers/clone makers to reverse-engineer a cartridge that will be compatible.