HP, DELL and Apple are junk - everyone I work with who has one hates them after being talked into buying them; as one person said about HP -it stands for: High Priced, Hardly Practical. DELL customer support is a joke and Apple is just high priced - costs way more than they’re worth.
For me, the best laptop I owned was a Gateway. It was a workhorse and was made in the USA. But then the company was sold and the new brand was Lenovo and made in China.