Dozens of HP laptop owners are reporting faults with their screens - but the company has so far refused to act.

The problems are affecting the ZD8000 range of Pavilion laptops. Several users are reporting the appearance of fine lines across the laptop's screen, while others are experiencing more severe issues.

Videos posted by Pavilion laptop owners on YouTube highlight similar problems. One shows vertical lines running down the length of the screen, while another posted at the end of May shows shows a display with half the screen obscured.

HP today announced intentions, and then finally went the whole hog a bought service company EDS for $12.5Bn or $25 a share.

Looks like HP wants a bit of IBMs service market, and to be honest buying what is probably the worlds largest outsourcing company could be one way of doing this.

What remains to be seen however is if buying a company with a 61% fall in year on year profits is the best decision HP have ever made, yet I seem to remember thinking th same thing when it took over Compaq.