From CNN:

Hewlett-Packard is looking to spin off its industry-leading but struggling personal computer business, it said Thursday. HP also killed off its new TouchPad tablet and its webOS smartphone. FULL STORY

And from MSNBC:

http://www.msnbc.msn...ss-us_business/

http://technolog.msn...-hardly-knew-ye

HP News Release:

http://www.hp.com/hp...1/110818xb.html

Here are some more links:

• ZDNet HP punts on WebOS, discontinues TouchPad, cuts outlook
• News.com: WebOS goes down in quiet death
• BNet: Was Palm worth the money?
• CNET: What HP's PC spin-off means to you

Finally figured out what IBM did a decade ago...not much money in PC hardware anymore

Not surprised as their notebooks (and I would assume desk-tops) are pretty crappy. My first HP notebook died in Thailand after a couple years and had to have the mobo or screen replaced for something like $500 dollars; am now using a US sourced HP HDX-18 notebook and it has constant problems updating drivers and HP utilities...pretty much a piece of crap but at least still working 3 years on. Would never buy another HP computer, however.

Carrefour or should that be Big C Extra maybe heard something, shopping last night was a big area of 'Clearance' HP items, myself would never buy another HP but just glanced as passing.

all in one HP Flat bed scanner/printer/fax/copier was 875 baht !! reduced from 6,xxx baht, All in one PC 13,000 baht reduced from 29,xxx baht. lots of other items + boxes of them under the table..

Good deal ? if someone knows how to constantly repair HP items.

Liked Michael Dell's comment: "They could spin it out and call it Compaq." Not Carly Fiorina's shining moment.

It strikes me as the kind of decision Nokia would make.

i have owned an HP laptop and compact media center. neither lasted more than a year. 2 friends bought the same laptop i did and all three laptops cacked inside a year.

they are doing us all a favour if they are getting out of the buisiness.

Liked Michael Dell's comment: "They could spin it out and call it Compaq." Not Carly Fiorina's shining moment.

They bought Compaq to get their hands on the server business. They still use 'ProLiant' as a brand name for their server range.

Liked Michael Dell's comment: "They could spin it out and call it Compaq." Not Carly Fiorina's shining moment.

But HP Vectras were even worse.

Liked Michael Dell's comment: "They could spin it out and call it Compaq." Not Carly Fiorina's shining moment.

ROFL

That's a good one :)

HP seems to be going down the drains, more or less what I expected from Mr. Apotheker. HP is really amazing at shooting their own feet, no one comes close. Fired the guy who made them hugely profitable because they didn't like him (more or less)... then they hand the reigns to somebody whose main job credentials are messing up SAP...

i have owned an HP laptop and compact media center. neither lasted more than a year. 2 friends bought the same laptop i did and all three laptops cacked inside a year.

they are doing us all a favour if they are getting out of the buisiness.

Wow, didn't know they had gotten so bad. I thought their design had improved a lot in the last years. Had kind of assumed the quality would be OK.

My own fond memories of my HP notebook are now already 10 years past. HP Pavillion that was cheap, huge, clunky, and started its life with many driver problems, but later just ran and ran and never had an issue until I sold it. It was a real trooper.

I used to provision and install Compaq servers. A Proliant 7000 with no disks and 2 PSUs weighed 65 kilos. A fully loaded version was a forklift truck job.