Suggest a Laptop [Budget-40,000]

[usman_arooq2]

bought a 5558 i5 5th gen, 500GB HDD, 4GB Ram, 2GB Graphix in September for 55k with local warranty. to tell the truth, this purchase decision has been a disappointment for me. the quality is not just up to the mark, just comparable to likes of acer, asus. even toshiba's are better in build quality. had keyboard issues from day one which eventually stopped working altogether and because it was a new thing in market, the service center took 6 weeks to replace the keyboard. it's screen is a dust magnet, even when cleaned and kept in the plastic wrap it came in, when I took it out off my bag in class, screen was full of dust. although using quite hard plastic its build isn't sturdy. it is working fine with windows 8.1 now.

I've also an 3rd gen i5 elitebook, it is older but elitebook is another class. tough, sturdy, stiff chassis and screen, heavy but beautiful(if you're into heavy metallic looks). wish i had bought another one but i bought the 5558 after hearing(not experiencing) HP motherboard failures and heating issues.

[autophile]

I think you've owned dell 5558 for a couple weeks. How is the experience going for you?
Battery time, heating etc.

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I like it and kids like it. No heating issue. Touchscreen and Windows 10 are amazing. Battery time is more than five hours

[ch.talal]

Avoid buying HP notebooks. I repeat "do not buy HP laptops" Why? Let me explain.

Once you buy it and want to upgrade RAM and HDD, you will rush towards YouTube to learn how to open it and believe me you would be stunned to learn that you need to do complete rape and tearing of this laptop just to upgrade these two things. It's not like you just open back cover and place new things in it. Besides HP quality has gone to gutter. Recently bought HP and its touchpad button is hard and loses touch if not pressed hard enough. Hundreds of other people have also reported the problem in touch pads.

For everyone, my recommendation would be to go for Lenovo or Dell. Their laptops are good and parts replacement is easy.

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[ch.talal]

I think a sticky thread should be made for discussing laptops related issues, prices and pros and cons.

[s15]

I think a sticky thread should be made for discussing laptops related issues, prices and pros and cons.

Great idea. I created one as i never saw any laptop related thread here, but its non sticky!.

https://www.pakwheels.com/forums/technology/270466-laptops-discussion-thread

[skylinegtrr34]

extend your budget a bit more... get a hp probook 4500 series onwards..

or HP pavillion models... you can get good i3 with 4 gig rams on it.. good for movies, surfing and normal workloads...

[amosoo]

do you want to use it for stuff like gaming?

[iamadee]

Go for lenovo...
Check the following link...
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1025331764206005&id=495060813899772&ref=bookmarks

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[mahrumer]

Guys, I have purchased a HP 15 laptop (not G4) a couple of days ago in silver color and I feel that it's quality is way better than what my neighbor is using.

I bought this laptop for general home usage. It is again 5th gen i3, 4gb ram and 500 gb hard drive just like my dell 5558.

I just wanted to share my experience that when I went to bought another laptop, I compared HP G4 and G-15 and I find G-15 better so bought it. Another reason for buying is that Dell 5558 was not available in the market.

I am keen observer in my opinion so if anybody wants a comparison between Dell 5558 and G15 regarding particular perspective, I can shed some light on it.

[mohsinirshad1]

Guys, I have purchased a HP 15 laptop (not G4) a couple of days ago in silver color and I feel that it's quality is way better than what my neighbor is using.

I bought this laptop for general home usage. It is again 5th gen i3, 4gb ram and 500 gb hard drive just like my dell 5558.

I just wanted to share my experience that when I went to bought another laptop, I compared HP G4 and G-15 and I find G-15 better so bought it. Another reason for buying is that Dell 5558 was not available in the market.

I am keen observer in my opinion so if anybody wants a comparison between Dell 5558 and G15 regarding particular perspective, I can shed some light on it.

Congrats on your purchase, how much did it cost you and where did you buy it from?

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[mahrumer]

Avoid buying HP notebooks. I repeat "do not buy HP laptops" Why? Let me explain.

Once you buy it and want to upgrade RAM and HDD, you will rush towards YouTube to learn how to open it and believe me you would be stunned to learn that you need to do complete rape and tearing of this laptop just to upgrade these two things. It's not like you just open back cover and place new things in it. Besides HP quality has gone to gutter. Recently bought HP and its touchpad button is hard and loses touch if not pressed hard enough. Hundreds of other people have also reported the problem in touch pads.

For everyone, my recommendation would be to go for Lenovo or Dell. Their laptops are good and parts replacement is easy.

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Nops, it's not like that.
I've one HP laptop at home which was purchased in 2004 (approximately 12 years ago) still going strong and I use it as a spare machine or sometimes as a Home media center and FTP Server.

I have purchased HP laptop 2 days ago.

And there is absolutely no heating issue.
About 4 or 5 years back, my old hp laptop starts to get heat up real quick, I opened it and cleaned it's fans and since then, it never got warm again.

Also keep in mind that with every new generation of Intel processors, laptops are more and more efficient with respect to heats.

[ch.talal]

Nops, it's not like that.
I've one HP laptop at home which was purchased in 2004 (approximately 12 years ago) still going strong and I use it as a spare machine or sometimes as a Home media center and FTP Server.

I have purchased HP laptop 2 days ago.

And there is absolutely no heating issue.
About 4 or 5 years back, my old hp laptop starts to get heat up real quick, I opened it and cleaned it's fans and since then, it never got warm again.

Also keep in mind that with every new generation of Intel processors, laptops are more and more efficient with respect to heats.

Seriously? 2004? Man HP quality has gone to trash over the decade. They only focus on money now. Old HP notebooks had easy opening back cover to fit things in them and build quality was excellent.
Just try to install an SSD in your "HP 15" and let me know how it went. Besides I own that HP 15 too and it is a real piece of trash and I regret buying this. I have an SSD lying around and I can't install that in it because I have no time to rape it just to open it.

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[Djaymx]

bought this last night.

Hp Envy 13-4014TU Spectre x360

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[zuhaibafzal]

Budget is not an issue. Now, going for Dell 5559 6th Gen i5 and 2gb card

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[mahrumer]

Congrats on your purchase, how much did it cost you and where did you buy it from?

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Thanks ...
I bought it for 39K on 23rd March. Please don't judge me on the date of purchase
Bought it from Rawalpindi saddar and here is the receipt.

[mahrumer]

Seriously? 2004? Man HP quality has gone to trash over the decade. They only focus on money now. Old HP notebooks had easy opening back cover to fit things in them and build quality was excellent.
Just try to install an SSD in your "HP 15" and let me know how it went. Besides I own that HP 15 too and it is a real piece of trash and I regret buying this. I have an SSD lying around and I can't install that in it because I have no time to rape it just to open it.

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Yes, seriously. I still have that old machine with me

I am now uploading the pictures of my home laptops for the sake of reference.
From left to right, here are the laptops:
1. Almost 12 years old HP Laptop (HP Pavilion with dedicated graphics card and a built-in remote control for multi-media with 64bit processor and the most expensive laptop purchase of all times: Price: 1.17 lac - one of the reason of not selling it) Currently it has SSD.
2. Recently purchased HP 15 with 5th gen processor. I'll be adding SSD tomorrow.
3. Dell 5558 - 5th gen with with kingston SSD (and yes, I know, it's not that super fast but I'll be switching with Samsung Evo 850 hopefully tomorrow)
4. HP ProBook - purchased in 2009 - second gen processor and still going good.
5. 5th laptop which is in the center was won by my family member as being a student of Islamic University.

From the looks of the photos, you'll think that my most of the laptop purchases are of HP. Well, it's true but I am not brand conscious. About a few months ago, when I was in the market for purchasing a laptop for myself for web-development, I chose Dell 5558 as it was the best hardware available at that time.

This is my experience.
You might be right that the quality of HP notebooks might have gone to the toilet in recent years - well in this case, only time will tell.
And you're very true again that in HP laptops, hard drive is buried under the motherboard.

Guess what, about 6 months ago, I sold My previous laptop Dell N5110 (which Dell 5558 replaced) and the sole reason of selling that laptop was that the hard drive was buried under the motherboard - I thought not to go for the trouble and sold a perfectly functional laptop and bought Dell 5558 and replaced Hard drive with SSD and replaced DVD drive with the HDD using HDD-Caddy.

Here are the pics (If someone wants me to upload high-res photos, do let me know as I have resized all pics before uploading here):

My next planned purchase is XPS 15 with 6th gen processor with xps infinity (or bazel-less display) in next couple of months as soon as it will be available and that laptop will replace my 12 years old laptop. so yes, in that category, Dell is definitely better than HP.

[mahrumer]

bought this last night.

Hp Envy 13-4014TU Spectre x360

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Congrats on the purchase. I just love the touch-pad of this machine i.e. semi-comparable to Mac Books just like Dell 555x series. Seriously awesome.

[mahrumer]

Budget is not an issue. Now, going for Dell 5559 6th Gen i5 and 2gb card

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Sir, just a note. If you ever have to make a choice between a better processor and an SSD. Go for SSD. Trust me when I say that you'll be better off with an SSD rather than a better processor.

I did a comparison about a year ago.
With the help of friends, I managed to gather 3 laptops, 2 of them were i7 4th-gen processor with 8 GB RAM and HDD and 3rd one was with i3 4th gen processor with 4 GB Ram but with SSD i.e. Samsung Evo 840.

Except in video encoding test, i3 was able to out-perform other 2 laptops with i7 processors.

Just my two cents.

[makhdoom123]

Yes, seriously. I still have that old machine with me

I am now uploading the pictures of my home laptops for the sake of reference.
From left to right, here are the laptops:
1. Almost 12 years old HP Laptop (HP Pavilion with dedicated graphics card and a built-in remote control for multi-media with 64bit processor and the most expensive laptop purchase of all times: Price: 1.17 lac - one of the reason of not selling it) Currently it has SSD.
2. Recently purchased HP 15 with 5th gen processor. I'll be adding SSD tomorrow.
3. Dell 5558 - 5th gen with with kingston SSD (and yes, I know, it's not that super fast but I'll be switching with Samsung Evo 850 hopefully tomorrow)
4. HP ProBook - purchased in 2009 - second gen processor and still going good.
5. 5th laptop which is in the center was won by my family member as being a student of Islamic University.

From the looks of the photos, you'll think that my most of the laptop purchases are of HP. Well, it's true but I am not brand conscious. About a few months ago, when I was in the market for purchasing a laptop for myself for web-development, I chose Dell 5558 as it was the best hardware available at that time.

This is my experience.
You might be right that the quality of HP notebooks might have gone to the toilet in recent years - well in this case, only time will tell.
And you're very true again that in HP laptops, hard drive is buried under the motherboard.

Guess what, about 6 months ago, I sold My previous laptop Dell N5110 (which Dell 5558 replaced) and the sole reason of selling that laptop was that the hard drive was buried under the motherboard - I thought not to go for the trouble and sold a perfectly functional laptop and bought Dell 5558 and replaced Hard drive with SSD and replaced DVD drive with the HDD using HDD-Caddy.

Here are the pics (If someone wants me to upload high-res photos, do let me know as I have resized all pics before uploading here):

My next planned purchase is XPS 15 with 6th gen processor with xps infinity (or bazel-less display) in next couple of months as soon as it will be available and that laptop will replace my 12 years old laptop. so yes, in that category, Dell is definitely better than HP.

I am selling xps 15 , bought it a month ago if interested see my thread

[ammaraziz]

Well I'm using a HP ENVY 15-uo11dx it costed me 75000 PKR with warranty[that expired], its refurbished. i don't have any problems [heating, slowness and touch issue] but the touchpad is slightly up from the right side i don't know why and i didn't ask. I bought this last ramzan by now the laptop market is cheap.

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