Should you buy an HP PC after the plan to split?

Should you buy a Hewlett-Packard PC (or tablet, or printer)? That question that certainly is on some customers' minds after the company's announcement Monday that it will split its PC and printer operation from its enterprise, software and services business. HP's customers had a similar concern when HP first floated the idea of breaking up the company in 2011. At that time, HP had no plan in place, but the company this time knows what it is doing, said Patrick Moorhead, president at Moor Insights and Strategy. When former HP CEO Leo Apotheker proposed the breakup three years ago, "it was just the PC business he was going to separate, not PC plus printer, and he didn't actually have a plan, but a communication that he was looking into a spin-off," Moorhead said. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here