Laptop advice....Lenovo or HP

Yea. It’s just an adjustment. I love the no a/v. Switched back in 2008 and have never looked back. Still Win 10 at work.

 

No...it's exactly true. You can spec out the same processor, same motherboard, ram, and yada yada through most any of the major brands. Things like the keyboards, casing, batteries and such may be different but in reality an Intel I5-9400 processor in a dell laptop will be the same in a Lenovo, HP, Asus, and any others.

 

Bought a HP desktop years ago for for and when I went to upgrade the RAM I discovered it did not have as much RAM as specified. Out of warranty and HP would not do anything. I will never buy another HP.

 

You're thinking modular desktops, this is not true for laptops or even commercial prebuilt desktops. Different boards from different manufacturers and models are different shapes and have different logical layouts of components like chipsets, vrm caps, pcie interfaces. Not to mention, suppliers for components may be different between brands or even models. Each company has their own hardware designers that plan board layouts that fit in different size chassis with different built in peripherals. You can't put a lenovo Thinkpad T460s motherboard in a Dell Latitude 7490 chassis. It doesn't work that way.

 

I don't know your situation, but if gaming is all your 9-year old wants, a gaming console may be a better option.

I personally regret introducing my sons to gaming. I have difficulty getting them to do anything else (my oldest is a high school senior).

 

Lenovo without question. I work at a pc shop. Get s lenov . It's what all the govt contractors use

 

I like the wean off the games comment. 9 is kinda young to own a decent laptop. My 10 has an old hand me down 17” HP, I transplanted an SSD in it. It’s a heavy brick so needs to be moved and put on a table to use, unlikely to be dropped. If she spends too much time on it, I cut her off with my phone’s router app. I sold the iPads in the house and her (my old) iPhone she uses as an iPod has screen time limits on it too. Kids can’t control themselves and can start exhibiting ADD behaviors with constant flash rewards.

 

Roblox games are not very demanding , any integrated chip can handle it. Get an i5- i7 with minimum 8 gb of Ram.

Lenovo or Dell both are good. I prefer dell because ease of upgrading ram or SSD. Lenovo and hp are moving more towards soldering ram and m2 hd directly to mother board to make it slimmer. But you can’t upgrade anything down the road.

Roblox is full of Trojans also so be careful

 

Great thread with lots of good info. I'm looking to buy a laptop for black friday.

 

The only laptops I've ever owned that lasted more than 2 years had an apple on the front.

 

I am a Mac user myself. I have MacBook Pro. Recently I had to work with PCs at work. At first, I thought something was wrong . . . it was sooooooo slow to boot up and to wake up.

Talking about longevity, I still have Titanium and Mac SE that still work.

 

I have a work issued PC. If I'm lucky, it will work long enough for me to email whatever I'm working on to myself so I can open it using my Apple computer and get my work done without having the program indicate it is (Not Responding) every 5 minutes.

 

Lenovo's are business-oriented machines, they are not meant for games
HP's have lots of LCD and other hardware issues.

If I were in your shoes I'd get a dell with i5 processor and 8 to 12 Gb's of ram.
This spec itself should hold for another 5 years but in the hands of a 9-year-old.

The hard drive plays a major role also, it depends on how much technical you are to understand the difference, but the more you know the better. it makes a world of difference in performance

I could go on and explain in detail but a quick search on youtube would do a better job in showing and explaining.

 

30 years putting bread on the table as a IT hack and Professional.

1. don't get the cheapest.
2. MAX out the ram
3. Solid State Harddrive
4. can't go wrong with Lenovo or HP
5. Get Extended warranty, it's a gamble but it could pay off.
6. Intel Chip

 

They have the Lenovo Legion.

You're thinking the Thinkpad line. That's their enterprise level stuff.

 

This is not unlike an automobile manufacturer preference/experience poll....

 

I'd take HP over Lenovo due to Lenovo being a Chinese owned company. Go with AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 processors since the integrated graphics are pretty dang good for gaming and won't break the bank. 8GB should be your min but try to get 16GB of RAM. A solid state drive at 256 GB is good as well. Dell is a good choice to.

 

I've experienced the opposite actually. We have a few users here that are on their 3rd and 4th macbook pros. Issues are primarily bad drives and or randomly breaking encryption. Apple store takes care of it, but it's a pain in the ass when someone's traveling and it's not accepting their decrypt password. We have less issues with Bitlocker.

 

I hear white ones are the fastest...

 

I have an Asus that I bought in 2013 and put a SSD in it. That thing is a beast and not a single issue other than a wore out battery.

 

He's the typical 9 yr old...minecraft, youtube, etc. He does take care of his stuff. He has had a basic laptop for a couple of years now.

 

ToughBook and a Nerf, send him out to play.

 

My kids use Chromebooks at school and that is what I bought for them to use at home.