This is the most FRAGILE laptop I have ever serviced

I recently replaced a damaged screen panel in a relatively new HP laptop... let's just say that I am appalled at the current state of consumer grade (and some business grade) laptop build quality. Why use screw fasteners to hold a laptop screen and lid together when you can just use double sided tape??? Oh, and let's use the screen panel as the primary reinforcement for the lid... can you guess why this laptop's screen got broken???
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[@happyputt9709]

9:17 Cheap Rant lol

[@JulesMauuary-Maetz]

I agree with you. My HP 14s (consumer grade) just turned 8 months old today and the hinges already makes some strange clunky sounds and they've been doing that for a while. The power button doesn't even have a built in LED (LED is on the side) and it costed 600 euros. And the worst thing is that you can find some used buisness class laptops for cheaper than that! I just saw a used Dell Precision 7530 with a Xeon CPU, 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD for half the price! It's insane! And according to Salem Techsperts (aka The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived), the Precision 7530 is one of the greatest laptops ever made! However, my HP has an i3 CPU, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.

[@dyter424]

I have what's probably the previous generation of this laptop (Pavilion 15-eh1000sl) and I think the construction is almost identical, but at least it's made out of aluminum. I bought it two and a half years ago and it's holding up very well. On the other hand, my friend bought a Lenovo Ideapad 15ALC6 around the same time, and the hinge is already destroyed. She ended up buying a new laptop because service asked a ridicuolous price for repairs. And another story, my sister has an Acer Aspire, some keys are literally dying and you can't easily replace the keyboard because it's glued to the assembly.

[@cambridgeport90]

Acer is always been interesting; I used to work at a renewal clinic for computers, and most of the devices I saw considered beyond repair were the Acers. Primarily damaged power jacks. (I was the one always seeing if we could save them, but normally my director shut me up, most of the time.)

[@faqihudinn]

I have HP 14s (entry level model) from 2020, few months after the warranty expired for some reason the wireless signal range (Wi-Fi & Bluetooth) is very weak if the screen lid was on certain angle, to fix that i had to wiggle the lid back & forth or simply use external wireless adapter. I disassembled the machine (the bottom part only) and confirmed the antenna connector from the wireless card is not loose, so it seems the antenna cable was broken on where the hinge part due to opening and closing the lid repeatedly.

[@TECHNIKVERBOT]

HP = Hinge Problem, Horrible Products :P

[@happyputt9709]

11:33

[@cambridgeport90]

I have always preferred business over consumer grade devices...for this very reason. And you're totally right about even some business grade laptops being horrible too. Though I don't think that the solution is always to make a custom build computer; nowadays, even a lot techies I know don't even want to do that because even some of the custom components are hard to find of decent quality. I have never been a fan of HP laptops; the older ones had loud keyboards, and the newer ones are just of horrid quality. though I will give it to HP for having laptops with better build quality back in the day. My favorite are the dell and Lenovo business devices nowadays, with a stronger preference for Dell.

[@PurpleNoseKitty]

Working on a lot of business grade laptops I’ve found Dells to have either shorted motherboards or just no power for no reason Lenovos seem to have issues with soldered ram or on newer t14s the hinge is broken I’ve found the hp elitebooks to be the most reliable ironically

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I'd generally avoid consumer HP laptops from newer than 2015, that's when they started to get bad. My newest HP is my Pavilion Star Wars laptop that has a cool design on it. The lenovo consumer laptops are however still pretty good, though I'd still get a used thinkpad over them.

[@MoneyBrozYT]

What replacement screen did you order for this? i need to replace a screen on an HP laptop similar to this one.

[@CubeComputerChannel]

This is the one I ordered... www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN9SPDLP?th=1 I recommend you first pull the damaged screen and get the part number and make sure it's a match before buying.