:smt043 that is so dumb... your telling me he didnt check the voltage of his pc before he plugged it in. We had to change the voltage of aload of our PCs when we moved back from Canada. Yes we pay more in the UK for stuff (via Tax), but we do get alot of benefits which are not available in the US (unless you pay loads for it) :smt033
Funny how they mention grey market. I do cry foul and so should businesses that use these products because it seems companies like HP for instance are trying to make a regional monopoly. HP is the number one printing company in the world I think and if they want to implement these features into the cartridges then its a form of monopoly, but its in large part due to the taxes so your government is really to blame :smt042
Those motherfuckers. I am sure, somehow, this is going to really really hurt imports in Mexico. ... For the three or four days before someone from here cracks it and it's an old news story. Good thing we have the same electrical system as well (we ought to... they take OUR electricity and leave us with frequent blackouts, bless our conservative america-first government) Still, why do american corporations always abuse every kind of customer like this?
I don't see how most of this is anything new. OK, HP are being complete assholes with regioning of ink cartridges, but then again do people actually import cartridges from the US? It seems like a lot of hassle for just cartridges, not forgetting shipping costs and junk. But besides that, most things aren't multi-voltage. I would expect PCs to be because standard ATX power supplies *always* are, but it's not always the case with proprietry stuff like Apples. My friend from Japan got a Sony Vaio PC over there - it was 100V-only, and the TV tuner in it was NTSC-J only as well. So when he was here the tuner was useless, and he had to use a step-down transformer. God knows why he had a 1500W one that weighed about 30kg though... No one's obliged to make everything multi-voltage, especially with things that aren't really expected to travel to different countries. It's been like that forever. Just like how there's been about 20 different TV standards used around the world. All 4 TV sets in my house are only going to work in Ireland, the UK, South Africa and some other countries in Africa. Though some sets are multi-standard, they don't have to be, and this is the same everywhere.
HP is being assclowns implementing region protection on the ink cartridges. Those things are ridiculously expensive.
That's why I'm happy I broke my HP printer (I was trying to take it apart, but that wasn't too successful). Now I'm buying a Canon, where the cartridges are only a tenner each! :smt023
Fixed. :smt043 Honestly, only a small sliver of comptuer users are competent enough to not be a danger to themselves and others.
