Hunk of Plastic. (HP). I make an effort to never buy HP products - whether scanners, laptops, printers.
I have had laptops from most of the major brands over the years. My first HP Laptop came with Windows 95. I had a docking station, a bunch of batteries and just about every available accessory. It was a business class laptop and I used it for many years with Windows 98 2nd edition. It is still around somewhere and nothing on it ever broke. I believe that it had a metal skeleton. It still works.
I had a Compaq laptop after HP bought them out that came with Windows XP. Nothing physically ever broke on that laptop, but I had to replace the motherboard twice, partially because it had a socket and took desktop CPUs and I used a more powerful CPU in it than what it came with which sometimes caused heating issues. So I really can't complain.
I replaced that laptop with a Lenovo that also came with Windows 7 after I didn't feel like replacing another motherboard on the Compaq. It gave me a good several years as well. I did have to buy a set of replacement hinges and the plastic on that machine comes off in little chunks fairly frequently, but it still works.
So it has just been in the past couple of years that we have started trying to use HP laptops again. And the build quality on the first three was very bad. Fortunately, they all failed under warranty. The screen went bad on one and the hinges failed on the other two. I ended up getting my money back from Costco on two of them and HP replaced one with another that was brand new but had slightly better specs although it was from a cheaper laptop series. The hinges are starting to come loose in that one. It is my wife's and she does not use it very much.
I could not get a laptop with specs as good as the one that I just replaced with the money that I got back because it had been on a good sale. I actually purchased another HP with 2 in 1 higes that looked a little more robust.