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post #1 of 10
11/11/12 at 10:34am
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Hey all.
I'm looking to buy a laptop for school and light gaming (DOTA and Halo CE mostly), but the only three choices of brands I have are Dell, HP and Acer. I'm leaning towards HP here.
I've been hearing pretty bad stuff about HP laptops from people, but the people I know that actually owns HP laptops, don't seem to have any problems at all.

I'm looking at these three laptops here:
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/B5Z51UA?HP-Pavilion-g7-2220us-Notebook-PC

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2M11UA?HP-ENVY-dv6-7210us-Notebook-PC

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2N66UA?HP-ENVY-dv7-7230us-Notebook-PC

But I really want to know from you guys...should I go the HP route out of the three?
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post #2 of 10
11/11/12 at 10:49am
I would pick the third one.It has more memory and a bigger hard drive,it is also a quad.I am not sure about the first one.
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post #3 of 10
11/11/12 at 10:59am
it isnt that they are bad(albeit i dont like my old hp) but rise of better alternatives are coming. HP atm has the most # of laptop sales, but is about to be overturned by lenovo soon.
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post #4 of 10
11/11/12 at 11:05am
My old hp dm1z's harddrive started crapping out right after the 1 year warranty ended and more problems started arising from there on.
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post #5 of 10
11/11/12 at 11:07am
HP's are average. Better then acer but not as good as some others. If you value performance and build quality over aesthetics then Lenovo might be a better choice. One main thing to look out for is the warranty. Laptops by there very nature have a pretty high failure rates so a +3 year warranty is a big plus.
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post #6 of 10
11/11/12 at 11:08am
The thing i've noticed with HP is that they're cheap laptops are really cheap and bad while their expensive line up is pretty good.
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post #7 of 10
11/11/12 at 12:08pm
My HP tx is still going strong after years of heavy use. so I can back that up. Still original parts only inside it
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post #8 of 10
11/11/12 at 12:11pm
I still can say am a big HP Laptop fan even though i bought a Asus Zenbook Prime last week, but i had 3 HP Laptop and each lasted me more then 4-5 years each, i would get there ENVY line and something a little smaller its not fun having a big as laptop get something 14" or smaller
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post #9 of 10
11/11/12 at 12:13pm
Once HP laptops were very good but now they are just average.
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post #10 of 10
11/11/12 at 12:20pm
Depends on which laptop you buy. The price tells you if they are good or bad. Cheap laptops are bad. Expencive ones are good... I can tell from experience.
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