Need a New Laptop: Has HP Improved At All?

Slacker7

Slacker7

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Long story short my son will be going to college in the fall and I have been seriously looking into the HP DV6 offerings. I like the the configuration options quite a bit. It is considered by them to belong to their "High Performance" category rather than their consumer grade "Everyday Computing."

However, I have been burned by HP's so-called quality in the past so much so that with my two most recent laptop purchases were with Lenovo.

Just wondering if anyone has opinions via personal experience about build quality, etc. Thanks.
 
I don't have anything helpful really, but I just bought a HP Probook 4530s and apparently people like it. So I'm giving it a shot. I just hope I don't regret it.
 
i'd just go to newegg and do a power search and put in your budget and then you can say which processors you want and ram and all that stuff.
 
Forget about HP and build your own by going to Newegg and buying parts or have someone build it for you if you don't know how. You get far better quality and warranty on parts when buying through newegg.
 
If you're going to go HP, go with the ProBook line. The consumer machines are still Garbage.
 
johnny, it is possible via the whitebook, but its mondo expensive and very difficult.

I would say this. HP does have some good stuff (probooks, some of the higher end desktops), but 99% of it has the build quality of a banana. The DV6 and DV7 have has a lot of issues with the GPUs too. HP is blaming it on a driver issue, but the heat buildup on my HD5470 has gotten to a point of actually melting the silicon twice, and just refused to boot several times too.

If your looking for a quality laptop, go Thinkpad (IBM/lenovo), Asus, Toshiba, Sager, or MSI. Thinkpad has the highest, longest established build quality in the industry.
 
wolfeking said:
If your looking for a quality laptop, go Thinkpad (IBM/lenovo), Asus, Toshiba, Sager, or MSI. Thinkpad has the highest, longest established build quality in the industry.
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+1 for the ThinkPad. Dell Latitude/Precision are also good models.
 
IBM/Lenovo make really solid (quite literally) laptops. The thinkpads and ideapads are really well built. I hear HP Toughbooks are good as well, though I try to avoid Dell and HP.
 
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