It's Official: HP is Keeping its PC Division
HP has brought balance back to the PC sector with its decision to keep its PSG after all.
Thursday HP finally ended the drama over its PC division (aka Personal Systems Group or PSG) which began during the summer with the announcement of a possible spin-off or outright sale. According to the company, the unit will remain as part of the HP collective -- it won't be sold or spun-off into a separate company.
"HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees," said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. "HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger."
Many in the industry are likely breathing a sigh of relief, especially those who were afraid that HP's withdrawal would send PC components up in price. Even Intel CEO Paul Otellini was blown away with the initial news, admittedly asking himself "what was he thinking?" when HP's former CEO Leo Apotheker made the announcement.
"I was stunned," Otellini said in an interview with FOX News. "I hope that they will decide to stay in the business. To leave consumer digital electronics, to me, would be a very strange decision to make when your whole business model is tied up into imaging and those kinds of things."
But now HP is seemingly staying the course with its PC business, bringing balance back to the PC sector. "As part of HP, PSG will continue to give customers and partners the advantages of product innovation and global scale across the industry’s broadest portfolio of PCs, workstations and more," said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. "We intend to make the leading PC business in the world even better."
HP said that part of its strategic review revealed the depth of its PSG integration that has occurred across key operations such as supply chain, IT and procurement. The review also detailed the significant extent to which PSG contributes to HP’s solutions portfolio and overall brand value. It also showed that the cost to recreate these in a standalone company outweighed any benefits of separation.
"The outcome of this exercise reaffirms HP’s model and the value for its customers and shareholders," the company said. "PSG is a key component of HP’s strategy to deliver higher value, lasting relationships with consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers. The HP board of directors is confident that PSG can drive profitable growth as part of the larger entity and accelerate solutions from other parts of HP’s business."
More information about the decision is available at www.hp.com/investor/PSG-Decision.
Homebuilt > Prebuilt
Homebuilt > Prebuilt
The hince continue to break, the keyboard scratches the screen. Driver installation is never a pleasent experience compare to Dell or anyother brand........ Better sell it off when it still worth something.
Even their laser printer doesn't last as long as Fuji Xeros, my CM1017 broken down slightly more than a year, and the cost to replace the fuser is higher than buying a new unit.
Sick of HP product.
Seriously, it takes almost an hour to manually remove it all, but once thats done the machines run almost twice as fast.
I rarely see discounts on pre-builts in the high-end segment (Dells has a few, but then again, it's Dell). People have budgets when it comes to PCs. If I have a $500 to $600 budget, I would rather spend that money on a quad core home-build with a nice GPU rather than spend $300 on a single or dual core pre-built that I cannot OC, run dual GPUs, etc. that usually costs $500. Screw discounts, I want to get the best for my budget.
You have to remember that MAJORITY of PC owners buy prebuilt. Not everyone is like us here
Still doesn't defeat the idea that home-builts tend to offer more for the price than pre-builts. Remember, this site is full of enthusiasts and tech-literate users, so pre-builts and anything news related to them doesn't interest most of us.
That's not always true. You can buy a budget system from a namebrand computer company cheaper then you can building your own budget system. that statement is only true when you are talking in regards to mid to highend systems. that's when you start notcing a diff in price between a prebuilt system and homebuilt system.
On the lower end, you can get better deals for homebuilts. If you have around a $300 to $400 budget, you can get away with decent specs with bundles on Newegg that have decent quad cores and cost $240. Throw in an OS, and you have a decent $340 that outperforms the dual cores in the same price range.
Not really. By the time you add in an OS which is 100 right there, The prcoessor, ram, hard drive, motherboard, power supply Case, Rom Drive, Media card reader, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc.. you end up spending anywhere between 100 to 150 dollars more building a budget system yourself with the same specs than a prebuilt budget system.
By the time you add a CPU, ram, hard drive, motherboard, PSU, Rom drive, Case Media Card reader, case, OS, keyboard, mouse, and speakers that a typical budget pc comes with, you will end up spending an extra 100 to 150 dollars more building a budget system yourself than to buy a prebuilt budget system with the same specs.