Posted on 09/24/2020 8:29:09 PM PDT by sushiman
The HP is 11 years old and has a variety of problems inc. blue screen of death on occasion , what ever causes hyper transport sync flood error , Nvidia Kernel mode driver stops responding , freezes , etc...Oh - and the DVD player was damaged when the computer fell to the floor when we had our giant double earthquakes here in Kumamoto 4 years ago . You may remember hearing about them . Two 7+ hit us within 28 hours ! I can live with the DVD player not working as I have one upstairs but anyway , it’s ancient and needs replacing . When were you in Japan ? I will have been here 35 years this coming Monday !
Lenovo on the consumer end has many features for the price but the hardware quality is poor. You will probably regret the purchase. The laptop will phone home to China so don’t do any online banking with it.
I use a Lenovo laptop. I uninstalled the Lenovo software. I’m very pleased with the performance.
I’ve owned 2 laptops over 15 years. I am not a tech person, so unfortunately, if problems come up, I’m usually in trouble. Both had problems with pop-ups saying you have this problem, you have that problem. One of them was a Lenovo that I received as a gift. After 2 years a pop-up appeared one day saying the hard drive was shot. I had a tech friend look at it and he was shocked. I never watched DVDs or played games, I didn’t have any files. I mostly surfed the web, read news, listened to music occasionally.
A few years ago I bought a Kindle Fire for $29.99. I love it. I can shop, read the news and FR, go on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. Haven’t tweeted but have read other people’s stuff. You can email people and lots of other things I just haven’t gotten around to doing (downloading books). I have never had a major problem—occasionally I power off if it freezes. Obviously there are bigger sizes available, but I enjoy sitting on a couch with devices in my hands.
Have a Lenovo Yoti/Yota... promising specs, but useless.
Get a Surface Pro if you can justify the cost. Mine’s a workhorse — one of the best computer investments I’ve made in decades. Bought it ~5 years ago. Still amazingly solid.
You should be able to find a “pre-owned” Surface Pro. SP3 i7 256 gb would be a good find.
(HP 9100 all in one user here)
Running windows 10 on this old faithful gal was kinda slow
But instead of junking her
I just got a new HD with linux on it
sooooo much faster and less hassle
I choise Zorin over Ubuntu due to it resembles windows.
Now my 10 yr old ...all in computer runs like brand new!
I have had several Lenova lap tops over the years that have performed very well. My last one died with a malfunctioning mother board because I spilled coffee on it, It was cheap to replace.
I’ve been using Lenovo laptops for many years. Never bought one new. I get the ones from ebay that come from a lease situation. I bought new Flex 4’s for the wife and daughter last year.
IMHO if you go with any business model, you’re good to go. They have to build those models well because they end up in a lease situation for 5 years to huge companies.
Just did a search for lenovo all-in-one. Looks like it’s a monitor with hard drive, motherboard etc built in? I wouldn’t buy one but to each his own. I suppose it’s not much different than a laptop which is all I use though. Small components all jammed together as tight as possible. They do run warm.
I run Lenovo for a couple of reasons. I run Linux and Lenovo units have good Linux compatibility. They used to have models that came with Linux pre-installed. Lenovo also has something called a Hardware Maintenance Manual for pretty much every model, at least every laptop. Tells you how to replace any component, has diagrams etc. Kind of necessary to take apart a laptop without breaking plastic parts. I buy the popular business models because I know I’ll be able to get parts for them and because they’re better built then the consumer models. Titanium frames for the laptops etc.
Never had one problem with a Lenovo. I have owned three laptops over the past 14 years and currently do own a Lenovo Laptop.
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