I bought the HP 550 laptop in July 2010 with KG to PG Scheme with INR 28, 500 from Innova Systems from Bodakdev, Ahmadabad.
It was not good buying experience from the start. Though my laptop was allotted, it was not delivered to us unless we contacted to head office.
The battery life was 4-6 hours earlier, It has decreased to only 2 min. It is no more laptop, only compact desktop for me. This problem is not faced only by me, there are others also who had bought this laptop.
My LCD Screen was also flickering sometimes.
I will definitely not buy or recommend HP products now onward. Even though we have HP 5-in-1 Printer at office, we chose Canon for the factory, just due to experience of poor quality. The brand name has eroded and the company is also paying its cost as it has slide down from its leadership position.