If she wants a new HP, I bet she will later need another HP... As Hugh said, I only have Thinkpad on a different category. I had more than a couple company issued laptops from a variety of brands (HP, Dell, Acer, Itautec) and every single one was replaced because of hardware issues, some under warranty, some not. Until I got a ThinkPad and I refused to get a newer, faster, shinier non thinkpad... One of my current laptops (I have 2) is a T430 from '12, but I don't trade it for a new HP or Dell... On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 19:09 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| I'd interested to know why you went with HP?
I don't have a lot of brand loyalty with notebooks. Except, perhaps, ThinkPad.
All notebooks are built by a few ODMs (Original Device Manufacturer). Often they do most of the engineering too. So the brand isn't really the main determinant of quality.
Here's a stale ODM list. It doesn't say which ODMs built which marques.
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers#ODM_la...
I do know that Foxconn makes a lot of Apple stuff. And a lot of other stuff.
Lenovo and Asus made a lot of their own stuff.
I think HP uses different ODMs for different models but I don't know this.
In my experience, HP has sold some interesting really low-end netbooks (HP Stream) and some nice "business class" notebooks. They've also taken "Envy" from a premium brand to a not-that-good brand.
I have a "business class" HP tablet that they damaged with a firmware update (there is now a noticable delay between a touch and the response). They have never fixed. Even though some customers complained and some returned them under warranty.
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