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| Wilksey:
I guess they have been in the spotlight quite a bit for failures, my first experience with a major fault on a laptop (I exclude HDD's which can be replaced and RAM) was the NVIDIA chipset failing, I managed to temporarily fix a few by re-heating the area around the chip up with a SMD Station, but they ultimately failed again. But, I have a HP laptop that works fine, still going strong, Probook 450, it's a business model but seems solid enough, didn't cost the earth either, I think I paid £300 or so for it, it's not the best laptop but for code bashing it's fine. |
| AriRio:
I bougth HP zbook 17 G5 in 2018. The notebook is fast and can have more ssd disks, but it is unreliable. I had to visit the hp service more than 10 times - faulty motherboard, windows re-installation, faulty ssd disk, unexpected freezing, wrongly installed windows by hp etc. The last problem still not solved by HP service although the notebook has still warranty. Final recommendation - avoid it at all cost. |
| iMo:
ProBook 450 G2 here, 5y old, running 24x7, SSD, absolutely no problems so far.. |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: Wilksey on November 08, 2016, 04:28:19 pm ---I guess they have been in the spotlight quite a bit for failures, my first experience with a major fault on a laptop (I exclude HDD's which can be replaced and RAM) was the NVIDIA chipset failing, I managed to temporarily fix a few by re-heating the area around the chip up with a SMD Station, but they ultimately failed again. But, I have a HP laptop that works fine, still going strong, Probook 450, it's a business model but seems solid enough, didn't cost the earth either, I think I paid £300 or so for it, it's not the best laptop but for code bashing it's fine. --- End quote --- Yes, you are right. (I've posted about this awhile ago, but caused some confusion). About 8 to 10 years ago, there were a HUGE batch of generic model HP Laptops that were failing. They were mostly failing due to the surface mounting of the Video chip. HP were so swamped with complaints, they ended up not answering any more notifications/calls. I received 15 such Laptops at a repair shop interstate over a short period of time, that were 'written off'. In general, they could be brought back to life by removal & reflowing of the video chip. By the following year though, their name was mud, although new products are fine! The other problem I regularly found with them, (though to a much lesser degree), was apparent 'screen' failure. This was virtually 100% of the time due to the failure of the 'Backlight' circuitry, and nothing else! You only need to open the screen cover itself, and change the small PCB for the backlight control, for about $5 to $10 in about 20 mins! ;D P.S. You can easily see if the problem is the backlight. Turn it on, and take it out in the Sun. Move it around to reflect the light, and you can still faintly see the text/images on the screen that's meant to be there! ;) |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on March 25, 2020, 01:21:24 pm ---I received 15 such Laptops at a repair shop interstate over a short period of time, that were 'written off'. In general, they could be brought back to life by removal & reflowing of the video chip. --- End quote --- Thanks for churning out 15 still faulty laptops which soon died again :palm: |
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