Never liked HP products. Bought their OEM (from Philips) CDWriter many eons ago. When I always had errors in my CDR discs and brought it to their Alexandra Road service centre for an exchange (since it was less than 3 days from purchase), they rejected me outright and told me that it could be my system's problem. I then insisted that they do some burn tests themselves and after about a week, they admitted the set has problem, but they had only repaired instead of a 1-to-1 exchange as I had demanded. Thereafter, I swear never to buy any HP products again because to me, their acronym "HP" stands for Hopeless Product.
I have also learned from friends that certain models of their Notebooks are prone to go up in smoke and burned their motherboards. I'd seen 1 myself. And their printers, even though the color printouts may be good, but their unreliable mechanisms are always prone to paper jams after a short while of usage.