Which hardware revision do you have?

[Manolo Sobrino]

Is this thread serious? And if it is... come on, really?

I just can't believe the amount of disrespect that some customers are willing to take from a company. It's almost embarrassing.

I can't remember any other manufacturer cutting brochure functionality for their existing customers less than one year after launching a calc and having pocketed their money... It's one thing to reduce assembly programs size or go back to the memory specs and give up on the free goodies (BTW if people kept private their hacking and breaching of terms of use in devices meant for school use, maybe those companies would be nicer... to the rest of us, you know...), it's a different thing to leave early buyers without support for advertised core functionalities.

If HP's business plan relies on bootstrapping new products by treating their customers like suckers, with blatant moves like this they might run out of suckers sooner than expected.

Meanwhile, in the real world, people use devices that work and return/don't buy again devices that don't.