Don't buy an HP laptop unless you love paying a premium for disposable hardware.

The only ones I've put my hands on lasting more than 4 years without something critical breaking are ones that spent at least 3 of those years turned off and collecting dust. Even better, when they break, simply buying replacement parts is a crapshoot of no-name third-party vendors with sketchy reviews, even on major second-party retail websites.

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"Ariel, don't you mean first-party retail websites?"

What, you mean HP? They have a parts store, yes, but they either discontinue or run out of the parts most likely to break, even before the laptop models those parts are used in are themselves discontinued.

Sorry about your screen breaking. Yes, we know you downloaded & read our service manual, but we're all out of replacement screens. Would you like to buy a replacement SSD instead? How about a replacement power cord for your power adapter?

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