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Comment by yakkityyak | Hacker News Reader

To be brutally honest, this looks like a very lame laptop.

For $1000 it looks ok to me!

For the most part I agree. It seems to be quite nice, assuming the screen is decent (my older HP that my work gave me gas a terrible screen).

Having 16 GB and 1 TB SSD for about $1000 is pretty good.

I’m not a fan of the arrow keys, Apple made that same mistake.

Given the other specs I’m sure this isn’t possible without raising the price, but I just can’t believe people are still buying brand new laptops in 2022 that have 1080p screens. I mean if it’s a $400 budget model ok I guess.

I suppose I’m more surprised people find that acceptable than that vendors sell it. Do people not know something much better is available?

Ignoring those two complaints/preferences this seems like a pretty decent PC laptop.

I guess it's not surprising that a forum full of tech professionals would ignore price when judging things, but the fact that it's fairly cheap absolutely is important for a tonne of people.

Not everyone needs enough ram to simultaneously run a bunch of VMs and train a neural network and edit 4k video all at the same time lol.

(Although 16gb is almost a non starter for Unreal Engine development, and that does run on Linux albeit with some prerequisite yak shaving)

You can upgrade it to 64 GB

To make matters worse it's HP. I've been subjected to multiple laptops of theirs over the years thanks to work.

Counterpoint - my circa 2017 HP Spectre x360 is the best laptop I've ever bought, really happy with that purchase. Getting a bit long in the tooth, though.

I have the same model (I think) and love it. It’s no longer my primary personal laptop, but I stuck Zorin OS on it and my wife uses it now for work. The biggest drawback it has is the touchpad. It’s the model year before HP went with a “precision” touchpad in the Spectre, and it’s noticeably bad compared to more modern machines.

Downvoted only because you didn't elaborate or qualify your criticism, which makes for very lame reading and adds nothing of value to the thread.

I'm trying to be nice by giving you some honest feedback, assuming you don't realize that it sucks for people to read vapid criticisms without substance.

Edit: Yes, thank you, please downvote me without saying why. Thank you! How deep does the rabbit hole go? It stings and bleeds.. lol :)

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