>buying an HP Spectre X360 over the Dell XPS 13 or other premium Windows ultrabooks I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
Spend the extra couple hundred bucks for a Dell XPS, Microsoft Surface, or an Apple MacBook. Hell, you could even save a couple hundred bucks for a Lenovo, Asus, Samsung, or LG and it will be better.
I made the mistake of buying one and I regret it after 2 months. >synaptics trackpad is a piece of shit. takes too long to move the cursor and scroll, despite changing the sensitivity to lowest and setting scrolling speed to fastest. bad input latency as well. I come from an Asus Zenbook and I swear it took me like a week to get used to because it's so shitty. >screen is so dim, have to set it to 75%. I'm not joking. >overheats and fan runs like crazy when using it while charging >coil whine when in sleep and charging >webcam is shit quality despite being FHD, actually worse than HD webcams in other laptops >never use the 2in1 tablet function anyway, but when I did use it I had problems with palm rejection, causing it to scroll or zoom
Now I bought the Dell XPS 13 instead, it's coming Monday. However I have problems selling the HP Spectre X360, no one fucking wants it because it's an HP Spectre! Who the fuck buys HP laptops at premium prices? If I were to sell a Dell XPS, I wouldn't had as much of a problem selling it. It's been like a week and I only had 3 people reply, 2 people offered $300 below what I asked for. And I bought this for almost $500 off retail price! Fuck.
>TL;DR: Don't buy HP laptops, even if they're premium
HP is so fucking hopeless on pretty much all of their $500+ computers. Their Stream devices are pretty fucking solid though, and that's their cheapest line.
Elijah Perry
it seems most people buy the cheap laptops when it comes to HP
Jace Cook
No it can't you fucking retard.
Henry Gutierrez
it can though.
Levi Rodriguez
Post a picture of the BIOS.
Jack King
Google it yourself retard I don't have the laptop in person yet.
>link literally has a link to the tool to fix the brightness issue No, kill YOURself. And thanks.
Josiah Diaz
Get some reading comprehension you fucking retard.
Daniel Phillips
I don't know why XPS 13 is so shilled. It has marginally better reliability compared to something like the surface book. Certainly no where near thinkpad level or latitude etc. If you are comfortable spending money on a transient unrepairable device get a surface book 1, otherwise stick with thinkpad (but I have to shill the screen on the surface lineup is fucking beautiful, cant believe lenovo cant get their head out of their ass and make a 3:2 screen).
Jonathan Young
How about you, fucking retard?
Aaron Brooks
>This tool is _only_ available for systems with the QHD display Get a rope.
Lucas Butler
That's because the FHD panels don't have this "feature". Again, YOU off yourself.
Aiden Long
what if you want something with 8th gen processors?
Hudson Miller
>For the FHD display, allow to repeat: No possible. Are you in 3rd grade or are simple an ESL?
Alexander Hall
X1 carbon if you want that XPS form factor
Chase Garcia
>starts at $1900 CAD fuck no, I'm not paying those prices for chinkshit
Connor Turner
Pay shit get shit
i doubt a new XPS is that much cheaper
Jordan Hernandez
I bought a XPS 13 9370 with 8th gen i7, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD for $1400 CAD.
>Exploding batteries >Shit drivers >Keyboard keys popping out >Die out of misterious reasons >Burns your legs
Don't ever buy hp laptops.
Oliver Davis
>spending any significant amount of money on a laptop in the year of our lord 2018 good consumers. you will come to regret any money you spend on a laptop, I promise.
>buying a new Dell XPS13 when you can get certified refurbished one year old models for as cheap as $500-700 when there's a 15 or 20% coupon.
It's like 1/3 the price because you waited a year. And refurbished ones typically have better QC becaused it was actively repaired, plus even if there is a problem the Dell outlet includes a 1yr warranty and lets you get extended warranties that have the same coverage as new.
Don't buy HP, ever. The only half decent thing they ever produced is their microserver series. Everything else from HP is massive shitnunfit for consumers or the enterprise.
Connor Edwards
How do you all feel about the asus 2-in-1? Also, how important is thunderbolt?
Cooper Rodriguez
Don't buy asus laptops. Shitty build quality. My trackpad scratched really badly after barely 2 years of usage.
Well, I had bought a dell 13 in, but had to send it back in twice because of coil whine. Also, had several issues with multi monitor support. The only computer left on my list would be the surface pro.
Dominic Green
you get what you pay for. Asuses are reliable craptops. Sure, they aren't made from premium materials, but if you are not a soy-boy it doesn't matter.
yeah I gotta say I'm never buying an Asus laptop again.
Adrian Murphy
ur life ur rulz. i don't understand crapbooks for 1000+ bucks
Carson Johnson
It's mainly for work.
Hunter Torres
>premium Windows ultrabooks This sounds like shit lmao. How can you have anything premium with Windows? It's all mediocre shit regardless of what hardware it's running on. Flickering icons, random command prompts popping up and disappearing, LOL what a mess.
Austin Parker
> "muh premium laptop" If you want to pay premium and get what you pay for, get either a: > Thinkpad X1 Carbon > Surface > MacBook Pro
Robert Jackson
replace thinkpad x1 carbon with dell xps
Samuel Young
I would like to not spend $2000+ for that kind of premium. I'd be fine with sub-premium.
Tyler Garcia
>$2000+ what are you talking about? > Macbook Pro starting at $1200 > Surface Pro starting at $800 > X1 Carbon starting at $1400
Jayden Bailey
>paying those kinds of premiums for chinkshitpad i'll never get these people
Easton Adams
exactly...starting.
Jason Wilson
>MacBook >premium Bhahahahahahahahahahaha
Jose Martinez
I bought one for $600 new in the box off of some guy. Pretty good for that price.
Caleb Myers
how?
Daniel Torres
> great display > great build quality > decent specs I'm a Thinkpad fan, but it is a good product.
I'd still get the T480s with the MX150 tho...
Carson Sanders
I got a killer deal on a top spec xps 13 9370 and regret it. I wouldn't call it a premium device that's for sure....
Xavier Turner
would you say it's worse than the hp spectre x360?
Grayson Bennett
I work at a university as a developer. I get to browse their classifieds. Some Asian kid was given it as a gift and didn't want it. He tried to haggle but I stuck firm at $600. He showed up with it in the unopened box. Actually, damn good for that price. It took me 1 day to get used to the track pad but now that I have that down it's all gravy.
Robert Jenkins
No I work at retailer that sells both of them. The xps 13 9370 is far better than the x360. That being said I'm not particularly amazed by the xps either. Main issue I have with it is the wifi card, running into what appears to be driver issues. Everything else is fine so far.
Henry Foster
>It took me 1 day to get used to the track pad yeah the trackpad fucking sucks. i came from an asus laptop and the synaptics trackpad fucking sucks.
it took me a while to get used to it as well, had to speed up scrolling to the fastest and sensitivity up to the lightest. still shitty.
the trackpad is the main reason why i'm selling this thing, but no one local seems to want it at a reasonable price. i got it for almost $500 off retail price so i was willing to negotiate...
Jacob Johnson
Dude the track pad isn't that bad, really. At least my experience hasn't been bad. I didn't even change the settings. Some things take patience. Really, any laptop with a trackpad can only be so good. A wireless mouse is the best thing for laptops of any build desu
Ayden Cruz
compared to my old asus laptop which the trackpad isn't that great, yeah it's a piece of shit.
Sebastian Hill
>buying an ultrabook >spending anything over what an Acer Assfire 13" with same specs costs Step the fuck up Lenovo, Iris graphics for 400€.
Where the fuck is my Ryzen replacement and why did Acer fuck it up with soldered single channel memory with no upgrade slots?
ITT we post our regrets about every dollar we spent on laptops.
I realized laptops were a scam back in 2006. Only buy desktops since. My work bought me a T460 maybe 16 months ago. Probably one of the best laptops out there, and it's still mediocre.
Jayden Clark
All you wrote it true. I have bought 10 of these to work.
Checkkin
Hudson Gray
>KEK [INSERT LITERALLY ANYTHING]
Colton Russell
You must have bought one of the cheap Walmart HPs mate. My envy is going strong after almost five years, the only problem is the hinge and I totally understand that moving mechanical parts break
Samuel Bennett
>Dell XPS, Microsoft Surface, or an Apple MacBook What? You're a stupid nigger, buy a Thinkpad.
Jace Price
No
Jack Nelson
My only gripe is cooling is kinda shit, though mine is a dv6 and it was over-specced for the laptop cooling design. (i7 3632qm (35w 4c8t i7), 8gb of ram and a amd 7670m dedicated gpu (a fairly weak gpu but enough for light gaming). Under load it would hit high 90's with high performance windows setting (trying to turboboost) and inevitably had to use balanced profile with turboboost disabled (so stock 2.2ghz) or it would throttle to sub 2.2ghz, and even at that it would still hit high 80's/low 90's. Also have an old compaq still (celeron 550 2ghz single-core, 2gb ram etc.) that has a soldered heatsink, took off the bottom of the laptop to help it to run without overheating, idles at high 50's, any sort of load sends it soaring towards high 80's, and nearing full load sees it hit close to 100c and throttle. Pic related is the old battler.
If any of you want to get a Lenovo, I advise you check if it's got a hardware whitelist on it.
I got a Lenovo edge 15 80H1 and eventually looked into replacing it's hard drive but Lenovo whitelists the parts so you can't just use anything that should work. You can't even get the same exact part from external sources. Only from Lenovo.
"Lenovo for those who do." Yeah well "those who do" are usually the people who actually want to do shit with their computers.
Now I gotta change the hardware ID of anything I install and potentially break them.
Grayson Scott
Lenovo is horrible chinkshit, don't know why anyone would recommend
Thomas Morales
user btfo
Andrew Long
but it's so thin... looks so cool... the grey one looks like something out of Deus Ex.
Kayden Barnes
Is this a new meme?
Grayson Allen
the XPS 13 is thinner and looks better
Nathaniel Green
>>buying an HP Spectre X360 yes because it comes with Ryzen
