This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
HP is probably the worst offender in this regard - their website is almost unusable. Lenovo is a close second, and I say this as a compulsive ThinkPad buyer.
Edit: I think a lot of commenters here aren’t reading the article. This isn’t about your favourite laptop, it’s about why manufacturer websites suck.
I have had exactly one HP laptop in my life, which luckily was a hand-me-down so I didn’t spend any money on it, but it was enough to convince me to never get another HP product ever again.
20-odd years and the boycott is still going strong lol.
I’ve used a bunch of HPs over the years. Some of them ProBook, mostly Elitebook. Either way, the keyboards were always awful. If you want to be 100% sure each key press registers, you have to press surprisingly hard.
If you’ve always used Dell and Lenovo, this kind of thing sounds completely absurd. It’s something that would never even occur to you. Why would you even think about whether the key presses register with 100% reliability? Of course they do. You press the button, a letter appears. That’s all there’s to it, right?
Wrong! HP thinks there should be an element of surprise if you type normally. Unless you hammer the keyboard like a wild animal, there’s no way to get to 100%. Even if you get the fanciest model, the keyboard still has this HP trademark suckiness.