[GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

[Mauro Souza]

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 at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: William Park via talk <talk at 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_laptop_units_sold_and_market_shares
> >
>
> 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.
>
> ---
> Post to this mailing list talk at gtalug.org
> Unsubscribe from this mailing list
> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20200427/dc120cd3/attachment.html>