I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal?

submitted 4 months ago by

I have awful experience with recent T series ThinkPads.

My Ideapad 510S that I bought many many years ago is much more robust, and has lived through a lot of use and abuse. Meanwhile I treat my ThinkPads like precious relics, and they still keep breaking down on me for stupid-ass reasons. I bought ThinkPad because I thought it could last me at least a decade — that couldn't be further from the truth. What a pile of trash. I guess they were good ten years ago.

Next time I'm gonna put good money into a laptop — and, as both charging ports on my T14s are currently failing, I'm afraid it won't be long — I'll get myself a Framework.

For the lower end of the price spectrum I sadly have no idea. I'm just here to warn everyone about ThinkPads. It has become my destiny in life.

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4 months ago

Found the Thinkpad collector who is afraid of competition. Just kidding.. 🙂

I haven't had much experience with the newer models, so what you say may be true.

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