My fiancee accidentally dropped her bag recently which had her 1 year old HP Envy inside. It cracked the touch screen and broke off the power button. You could still turn it on by sticking a toothpick in where the button used to be, and she disabled the touch screen which allowed it to be more usable. Before the touch screen was disabled the laptop constantly thought you were touching the bottom half of the screen so it would open / close pages among other things while she was trying to get work done. She is a middle school / high school teacher and is currently still in college herself so her laptop is very important.
The Black Friday adds are already out so we checked out those deals and didn't see anything crazy good. So we checked out Best Buy's current selection of laptops and ended up with a clearance HP Envy 360 2 in 1 with an AMD FX CPU. I had some trouble setting it up and ended up reinstalling Window. All seems to be running well at this point, it's a very nice machine.
I currently have a $200 HP 2000 and a MacBook Pro. I got the HP 4 years ago and have had no major issues outside of a bad battery, for which a replacement is currently on the way. I haven't used this laptop much in over a year since I got the Macbook Pro about a year ago, that thing is sweet.
I have had numerous other laptops over the years. One died of a motherboard failure, one from a cracked screen, and some I just got rid of and upgraded. The funny thing is my longest running laptop has been the least expensive one I have purchased, my HP 2000 that I am currently typing from. It's right around 4 years old.
Anyway, just curious what kind of life you get out of your laptops, and if they are low, mid, or higher tier units.
The Black Friday adds are already out so we checked out those deals and didn't see anything crazy good. So we checked out Best Buy's current selection of laptops and ended up with a clearance HP Envy 360 2 in 1 with an AMD FX CPU. I had some trouble setting it up and ended up reinstalling Window. All seems to be running well at this point, it's a very nice machine.
I currently have a $200 HP 2000 and a MacBook Pro. I got the HP 4 years ago and have had no major issues outside of a bad battery, for which a replacement is currently on the way. I haven't used this laptop much in over a year since I got the Macbook Pro about a year ago, that thing is sweet.
I have had numerous other laptops over the years. One died of a motherboard failure, one from a cracked screen, and some I just got rid of and upgraded. The funny thing is my longest running laptop has been the least expensive one I have purchased, my HP 2000 that I am currently typing from. It's right around 4 years old.
Anyway, just curious what kind of life you get out of your laptops, and if they are low, mid, or higher tier units.