my laptop for business crashed last friday

jmaida

Happens. Probably under warranty. Hope you were backed up. Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures. Usually heat or impact related.

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RaviBee

jmaida wrote:

Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures. Usually heat or impact related.

True. And HP laptops have a reputation for failing due to overheating. I don't recommend buying HP products aside from their printers that seem to be very reliable. /ravi

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Nelek

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

aside from their printers that seem to be very reliable.

But too expensive at the end (if you consider the Ink) in the balance and too annoying too.

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Nelek

For my HP Elitebook is the battery and the performance what is driving me nuts. My laptop is now no laptop, it is a movil desktop as it has to be 100% connected to battery supply. I switch it on, log in and then go making (and drinking) coffee because it needs around 10-15 minutes to complete all "startup" tasks, where the only one I added is just to open the windows explorer in a concrete folder, the rest are domain policies. Opening an office document in sharepoint needs 3-5 minutes, and so on... it bugs the hell out of me. Sadly I must stick with it for a while as the next (already ordered) model is not available right now :mad: :doh: :sigh:

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Kenneth Haugland

I had a monitor from HP that decided to turn on and off randomly. The other HP parts also started failing in succession, would generally not recommend HP.

Lost User

jmaida wrote:

Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures.

I have been using laptops (mainly Dell) in business and at home for approaching 30 years and never experienced or even heard of that happening, to me or any of my work colleagues.

Rage

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

I don't recommend buying HP products

I cannot think of a reliable alternative. To my experience, everything else is worse.

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Southmountain wrote:

HP

There is your problem ^

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obermd

Their EliteDisplay line of monitors are excellent, but overpriced. Remember, HP's old nickname was "High Priced"

jschell

jmaida wrote:

Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures.

About 250 million laptops in the world per year. So yes some of them will fail for all sorts of reasons. Following suggests probably 2% which is a lot of laptops. That might be low but it doesn't suggest it is all that high. https://techgenix.com/laptop-and-pc-failure-rates/[^]

RaviBee

I've never had a problem with Dell and Lenovo hardware. Their machines seem to work well. /ravi

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Nelek

For me the dell hardware was the most reliable too. My wife is still using the Dell Laptop I bought from the company in 2015 when I moved on. I started using it in 2012, and besides a tiny temperature problem, it still works like charm.

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Kenneth Haugland

Guess Im just the unlucky one then, because the relatively cheap monitor ($250) I bought broke after roughly 1 year. One of the capacitors got busted.

jmaida

you did some homework. Thanx I have only lost 1 laptop to a bad motherboard (heat) of my many laptops over the years, but have had to replace hard drive more than a couple of times. Not so much since they moved to SSD's. Had a number of colleagues who were not so fortunate, but they traveled a lot so impacts were probably the reason. Lenova's seem to be most solid. If laptop sits on one's desk all the time, then probably the same failure rate as desktops.

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Southmountain

agree

diligent hands rule....

jschell

There is another site (service) that publishes results for failure rates for different drives by the specific product id. So not for example just by manufacture. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2022[^]

jmaida

got it. thanx for the link.

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