How reliable are HP laptops?
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I have an HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop, and its been very reliable for almost a year and a half, running it every day for at least 6 hours a day, and never had crashes or any bugs, running WinXP, although I did have to replace the power cord, cause I dragged it around too much (oops)
409725
get a dell. cheap and reliable
79930
from personal experience, dont go with a dell. i have heard nothing but bad things. go with a hewlet packard, they r GOOD.
913145
Yes, it's quite reliable, unlike Windows 98/ME and the like. We have equal numbers of Xp and Linux servers at work running webservers, email servers, proxy servers and fileservers and I would say that although XP may not be quite as reliable (have to reboot once every couple of months), it's not bad at all.
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Don't do it. Sony electronics are overpriced and mediocre at best. Their components are not very dependable and forget about any service or repairs, they're not the most helpful or customer friendly company around.\n\nDo yourself a favor, save some money, and get a Dell or an HP.\n\nIf you have any doubts as far as their quality control goes, just look at the millions of Laptop batteries that had to be recalled this year. All were supplied and manufactured by Sony.\n\nHope this helps.
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My sister has a Toshiba laptop and my daughter has a Compaq laptop. \n\nMy sisters Toshiba has had three screens go bad in the 11 months she's owned it. It takes 45 -60 days to get it back. She must ship it to them for repairs and pay for shipping both ways. Its still under Warranty. Getting through to their tech support is difficult at best. She has used her new laptop about 2 months out of 11.\n\nMy daughter has a Compaq laptop. She goes to college and does alot of her work on it. A couple of days after her purchase, she noticed it was getting very hot. This is after several hours of use. She called Compaq tech support and they explained the situation. Then they had a cooling pad sent to her free of charge. No more overheating problems. Then my grandson slammed the lid down hard and damaged the screen. Again she called tech support and the next day a repair shop called and arranged to pick it up and take it in for repair. Tech support made sure a screen was shipped to the shop overnight. Within 36 hrs of calling tech support it was repaired and sitting on her desk. No charge.\n\nI have a Compaq desktop and have called HP tech support at least a dozen times. Never for an equipment problem, just operator problems. I've never waited more than 2 mins to get through and received excellent support. They spent as much time as it takes to resolve any issues. Five hours with me once.\n\nTo me it is also the support of the product that counts.
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HP ... They're good, pictures are good! You can find it in Walmart or Target
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We had a HP pc many years ago - I'd never trust them again (But there printers are absolutely exceptional quality).\n\nOur HP used a OEM operating system. This meant that it was a customised version of windows which of course meant that they also installed their own custom software etc. At bootup the system resources would normally be 45% available - Very low. It would crash every 30 - 60 minutes and wasn't really very stable at all.\n\nHP's tech support (UK - Some scottish guy called Alan) was very hard to deal with too. Not only did he refuse to beleive what I told him it said on my screen, but when the PC-World technician spoke to him he had the same attitude-packed response too. Basically once they have sold you their HP Pc, they don't want to know, they don't care and they don't want to even see the machine again.\n\nAt 11 months old, that PC went back to PC world (after 3 motherboard replacements, 2 different lots of ram, new processor etc etc). They refunded it and sent it back to HP (I wish I could of seen Alan's face when he saw what was wrong with it).\n\nOur experience with HP was not a good one at all. They don't beleive that anything can go wrong with their PC's and they don't beleive that they are anything but perfect. Their customer service was appalling along with very unhelpful.\n\nI will neer touch another HP pc again. As I said though, their printers are perfect in every way - robust, very little ink usage, pretty quick etc (unlike Epson).\n\nIf you want to buy a good brand-name PC, then I would recommend Packard Bell. We had one of those after the HP, and to be honest it was almost faultless. Eventually the motherboard (after a good 5 years of solid use) died but it was a great machine which operated almost flawlessly.\n\nJ
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Dell or HP. You have to put an eye on the support given by the manufacturer. Dell service is better and faster than HP, in case of a hardware failure, but HP hardware is better, so you decide between having a very good support and good hardware (this is DELL), or having a very good Hardware with regular support (this is HP). In my particular case, I prefer Dell, because of the support.\n\nHope this helps. Regards
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Ask hp--- a friend of mine had 1 of these computers and it was back with them more times than he had actually used it. I have been told that these Pre loaded comps dont like being messed with. if you try yourself it always seems to go wrong. They must do something with them that stops you messing.
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HP would be the best option for you
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The four major manufacturer's of laptops are Toshiba, IBM, Dell and HP/Compaq. They have all been manufacturing laptops for many years. All four make quality products. Toshiba and IBM (now Lenovo) tend to make the most reliable products. Both focus on the corporate marketplace, as do HP and Dell.  Any of these manufacturers would make a good choice. \n\nYou might also consider an older laptop.  Many older laptops that you find from the companies that sell refurbished laptops come from leasing companies and corporations.  Decent units can be purchased for $300 to $500.\n\nFigure out what features you want and then look at the above manufacturer's websites to see what deals they are offering.  If you don't care about battery life and your laptop will see limited use then you might even consider refurbished.  Many of these units were formerly used by corporations and are great values.\n\nYou can type "used laptops" for refurbished and "discount laptop" into google and check out the companies that appear.
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trust me on this. HP Compaq (theyre one company) is CRAP. my brpther has an hp laptop, hes had it for less than a year but hes had 2 reformat (completely erase ) the hard drive and reinstall xp twice already as for compaq ive used compaq computers before and they are a pain in the @$$ my advice to u is get either a dell (that battery thing wasnt their fault it was sony's), toshiba, fujitsu siemens, or acer.
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Get something reliable.  Check out CNET for reviews by editors and customers.  Toshiba and Fujitsu have great reliability.  The Lenovo Thinkpad (formerly IBM Thinkpad) is nice.  Get internal wireless, big RAM size, and a decent size HDD.  Don't get a Compaq, Dell, or HP.  Also, if you are considering a Mac, look at what software you will need and if it is available for Mac.  Then look at what it will cost to fix your Mac.  Is is worth it?  Probably not, but they are nice, just not compatible with everything.  Good luck.
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To be honest, HP computers is the better choice if I were you. Gateway is good but I heard they have a few problems in the past, but I'm not sure about now. Best go with HP.
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Dell's are a great value, they are rather pricier than the competition. HP is a good performer, it is quite solid, the lid hinge is a prblem because after 20 rotations, the screen becomes all wobbly. E machines, are complete bargain notebooks, the new N10 bundle avalible at Wal-Mart is a solid performer. It is a quite basic notebook, but i have one and it runs well, although the proprietary sempron processor is kind of lousy, i would replace it with a Core Xeon which is Intel. Emachines didn't really do well prior to the n10 especially the M2105 which my brother has, the battery runs down and wears out quickly, hinge is too. wobbly. You are better of with a Dell if you have enough money, they start at around $543, the toshibas start at $739 and the e machines n10 is the only E machines notebook available and it is a great value, consisting of LoJack Laptop Trace, a flash drive, a Targus notebook backpack for only $548.95 at Wal-Mart. It is nice
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I have an Emachine.  As of this date I haven't had any problems with it at all.  This is my 4th computer.  Two others were Dells and one was a Hewlard Packard.   For the price I paid I think it is wonderful.