Was looking for a zbook laptop at the HP website when I noticed something... - Page 1
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author: juan_ee
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 05:58:34 am
content: Hello everyone,I was browsing for a new professional class workstation laptop for engineers on the HP website when I ran into something I thought was funny, or maybe my eyesight is not like it used to be.http://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/zbook-17/index.htmlCan you see what I see? There is a screenshot attached.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 06:22:06 am
content: "I can't figure out why my Arduino radio project doesn't work, I wonder if the solution is available on my prominently-position HP notebook computing device."

author: ttelectronic
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 06:49:03 am
content: Well, the only thing I catch is the breadboard setup seems pretty damn useless wiring and sparse.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 07:35:36 am
content: I think he is trying to diagnose a short circuit.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 07:47:25 am
content: Creepy detached 3rd hard is about to steal his laptop?

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 07:51:45 am
content: OK the breadboard with the complicated circuit is obvious.I wonder if it is the same guy on all 3 pictures with different hair and angle.There is a thread for this, called stock image fail BTW.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 08:12:07 am
content: If it is not the useless clueless breadboard, it might be the green mat with yellow stripes is a so called cutting mat, where you can cut paper and other stuff with a sharp knife, it acts like an ESD mat ?

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 08:50:28 am
content: Why does the guy in the third image look so poorly/sloppily dressed compared to the men in images 1 and 2?

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 08:55:48 am
content: Quote from: BrianHG on September 26, 2018, 08:50:28 amWhat do you mean ? Engineers in all the companies I worked for looked like that or worse

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 09:00:37 am
content: Quote from: Kjelt on September 26, 2018, 08:55:48 amI know... it's just when you are trying to market an expensive laptop/computer equipment, don't put sloppiness right out on the front page. Not everyone purchasing these laptops/computers have seen engineers before and may not know this or realize this guy is an engineer because of what he it holding in his hands.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 09:08:32 am
content: Quote from: BrianHG on September 26, 2018, 08:50:28 amThey’re all too well dressed to be the jobs that they’re doing.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 09:33:15 am
content: Quote from: BrianHG on September 26, 2018, 09:00:37 amThere you have the largest and worst issue: corporate purchasers: they are not engineers but do make the big decisions which tools the engineers eventually get to do their jobs.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 10:52:39 am
content: I also call bullshit on the "video editor" in tile one.No half-serious person working in video production uses just one video track. The whole idea of tracks is that you can layer different clips together at various times, not just string a whole bunch together one after the other. I remember when I was filming promos for theatre shows, we used a minimum of 4-5 tracks.

author: juan_ee
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 04:43:14 pm
content: Wow, I like the responses so far.I guess I was right, (the breadboard)The "video editor", I didn't even look at that tile,.Seems like these people in the image are models or unemployed actors, not real developers, architects or engineers.Sad they are marketing to us real engineers but their marketing material isn't real.I guess "this is not your father's Hewlett Packard Company"Juan

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 04:55:22 pm
content: The dude in the right photo is checking the wire's proper polarity. You know, such that the electron flow is not restricted.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 05:36:46 pm
content: He looks puzzled with what he is looking at.

author: maginnovision
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 06:32:35 pm
content: You guys are all wrong. It's his prototype energy harvesting device for indiegogo. All ready for manufacture.

author: tsman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 07:04:21 pm
content: Makes a change from the stock photos of somebody grasping the hot end of a massive chisel soldering iron whilst poking it at a PC motherboard.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 09:41:33 pm
content: Video Editors stare at graphic images, Product designers stare at breadboards and Architects just stand there looking thoughtful!Seems about right

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 10:28:49 pm
content: There are no shortage of funny stock photos available and yes I would have thought a company as big as HP would have actually had their own photo department take serious photos but then again marketing gets in the way. At least they are using HP computers in the photos.Here is one that seems a bit odd also, mostly because she is fixing a CRT but I'm not exactly sure what she is probing (maybe getting a resistance measurement, also not sure if she has probes plugged into the wrong plugs on the DMM, not familiar with that model but at least it's on!):

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 10:46:37 pm
content: By the way here are some of the individual images:The images are fairly nice I think. Who wants to see the real world? Marketing is all about fantasy!

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 01:56:17 am
content: I don't think the HP ones are stock photos --- the latter would usually have all the brand names erased, for legal reasons.The "new hp" logo looks more like a downward-pointing middle finger to me...Quote from: edy on September 26, 2018, 10:28:49 pmChecking for an open deflection coil? That one looks far less ridiculous than the other stock image fails I've seen... of course, it would be even more realistic if the meter was facing her face.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 02:06:02 am
content: Quote from: edy on September 26, 2018, 10:28:49 pmThe center port seems to read COM, so ignoring polarity they had a one out of three chance of getting it wrong and got it wrong.

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 03:35:25 am
content: Quote from: Mr. Scram on September 27, 2018, 02:06:02 amLooks like she wants to measure amperage on the 10A limited plug yet nothing is connected to common. What do you measure exactly using probes that are on the outermost plugs without common?

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 07:11:38 am
content: Quote from: amyk on September 27, 2018, 01:56:17 amI just hope that whatever stock photo company staged that image, they had the sense to have someone (competent) fully discharge everything inside that CRT before she poked around in the wrong place.