I have what's probably the previous generation of this laptop (Pavilion 15-eh1000sl) and I think the construction is almost identical, but at least it's made out of aluminum. I bought it two and a half years ago and it's holding up very well. On the other hand, my friend bought a Lenovo Ideapad 15ALC6 around the same time, and the hinge is already destroyed. She ended up buying a new laptop because service asked a ridicuolous price for repairs. And another story, my sister has an Acer Aspire, some keys are literally dying and you can't easily replace the keyboard because it's glued to the assembly.
Acer is always been interesting; I used to work at a renewal clinic for computers, and most of the devices I saw considered beyond repair were the Acers. Primarily damaged power jacks. (I was the one always seeing if we could save them, but normally my director shut me up, most of the time.)
I have always preferred business over consumer grade devices...for this very reason. And you're totally right about even some business grade laptops being horrible too. Though I don't think that the solution is always to make a custom build computer; nowadays, even a lot techies I know don't even want to do that because even some of the custom components are hard to find of decent quality. I have never been a fan of HP laptops; the older ones had loud keyboards, and the newer ones are just of horrid quality. though I will give it to HP for having laptops with better build quality back in the day. My favorite are the dell and Lenovo business devices nowadays, with a stronger preference for Dell.
Working on a lot of business grade laptops I’ve found Dells to have either shorted motherboards or just no power for no reason Lenovos seem to have issues with soldered ram or on newer t14s the hinge is broken I’ve found the hp elitebooks to be the most reliable ironically
This is the one I ordered... www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN9SPDLP?th=1 I recommend you first pull the damaged screen and get the part number and make sure it's a match before buying.
I have what's probably the previous generation of this laptop (Pavilion 15-eh1000sl) and I think the construction is almost identical, but at least it's made out of aluminum. I bought it two and a half years ago and it's holding up very well.
On the other hand, my friend bought a Lenovo Ideapad 15ALC6 around the same time, and the hinge is already destroyed. She ended up buying a new laptop because service asked a ridicuolous price for repairs.
And another story, my sister has an Acer Aspire, some keys are literally dying and you can't easily replace the keyboard because it's glued to the assembly.
Acer is always been interesting; I used to work at a renewal clinic for computers, and most of the devices I saw considered beyond repair were the Acers. Primarily damaged power jacks. (I was the one always seeing if we could save them, but normally my director shut me up, most of the time.)
HP = Hinge Problem, Horrible Products :P
I have always preferred business over consumer grade devices...for this very reason. And you're totally right about even some business grade laptops being horrible too. Though I don't think that the solution is always to make a custom build computer; nowadays, even a lot techies I know don't even want to do that because even some of the custom components are hard to find of decent quality. I have never been a fan of HP laptops; the older ones had loud keyboards, and the newer ones are just of horrid quality. though I will give it to HP for having laptops with better build quality back in the day. My favorite are the dell and Lenovo business devices nowadays, with a stronger preference for Dell.
Working on a lot of business grade laptops I’ve found Dells to have either shorted motherboards or just no power for no reason
Lenovos seem to have issues with soldered ram or on newer t14s the hinge is broken
I’ve found the hp elitebooks to be the most reliable ironically
What replacement screen did you order for this? i need to replace a screen on an HP laptop similar to this one.
This is the one I ordered...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN9SPDLP?th=1
I recommend you first pull the damaged screen and get the part number and make sure it's a match before buying.