HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions

itwbennett writes "Apotheker wanted to sell off HP's PC division, Whitman vowed not to, and now HP is combining the PC division with the printer division in an effort to cut costs, unnamed sources told the All Things D blog. Given that both divisions reported declining sales last quarter, is HP hoping that two wrongs make a right?"

What's next? Free printer with every ink purchase

[netsavior]

Oh wait, they already do that.

Re:What's next? Free printer with every ink purcha

[Overzeetop]

No, but the power supplies will have chips in them that run out every 6 months, and you'll have to get a replacement - which costs about 75% of the cost of a new machine.

Re:Merging strategies

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Did you know that using Genuine HP DuraBit(tm) RAM makes your bits sharper, brighter, and 50% less likely to be corrupted? Also, our motherboards cryptographically verify all DIMMs during post, so its mandatory; but we won't spare you the fullsome marketing even so...

Maybe they'll go dangerously 90's and try combining a minaturized printer with a laptop. The kids will dig that.

If only they hadn't eliminated all their geeks...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

If HP hadn't more or less gutted itself(between spinning off the good stuff as 'Agilent' and the Carly era), there might have been one thing to hope for:

Purely for the pointless nerd-value, who among us would not smile to see a line of x86 PCs that, instead of a BIOS or EFI, had a firmware based on the unholy fusion of the design principles of Open Firmware; but with an extended PJL command set, rather than Forth, as the underlying language?

It'd be magnificently pointless(as would the postscript and PCL RIPs implemented entirely in SMM); but the world would be a better place for it having existed...

Re:Corporate manuvering

[Ihmhi]

Exactly! Then, HP can make lots of money selling all of those things they make that aren't PCs or printers!

Re:Sad

[P-niiice]

you can't print without a driver, tray icon, update app, update app for the update app, scanner tray app, and update app for the scanner app