Ancient_Hacker wrote:

4)Why did the law in USA for manufacturers (any kind not just
electronics) being responsible for backing their products by parts &
service change from 7 years to 5 then nothing now?,meaning now you can
buy a product with no warranty and when parts are needed "sorry NLA".

The "parts for 7 years" has always been an urban legend.

Warranty and parts availability at least in the USA, has not been
controlled by law, but whatever the company thought was in their best
interest.

It's getting really bad in some cases: for example a lot of $899 HP
printers that are just a year or three old do not have ANY print
drivers available from HP for the latest 64-bit XP.

Simple. Don't buy HP !

Graham