Their lower price laptops specialize in (1) broken ribbon cables between computer and screen (2) broken power supply wire/plug. This is NOT high-tech stuff, folks! It’s planned failure.
Two of my kids had each of those happen. Gets a bit old. My daughter’s Asus is smooth sailing so far.
My work laptops (high end) are solid. Never had a mechanical or electrical failure.
I’m still waiting for them to figure out decent software for their printers. At least the ones I’ve had. It’s stone-age irritating.
Well, in a while it will be HPC. China.
“broken power supply wire/plug”
Yep. That’s been the case for at least 15 years
with HP laptops, and it’s mostly HP brand laptops prone
to that particular problem, which as I’m sure you know
is so expensive to fix that you might as well just buy
a new laptop anyway.
And yeah, their printer software is a total nightmare,
with close to a dozen useless or near useless shaky
background processes installed for each printer install.
After 2-3 HP printers crap out and get replaced with the
next HP model, you’ve got 30 background programs running
because of course no one ever uninstalls anything, even
if they could figure out how, particularly after multiple
printers have been installed because it’s impossible to figure out
which background processes belong to which printer. HP
printer software has probably done at least at much damage
to PC productivity in the world as malware! I try to steer people away
from HP printers as well for that reason.
Roger that. It's a tradition with HP.