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    Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Would love to hear your thoughts on HP. I had an internship at a IT company doing general setup and maintenance for businesses IT and since each consultant managed their own customer they often stuck with their own brands.

    Having setup some of these I often felt like Lenovo was hot garbage, I've had a lenovo laptop with terrible manufacturing issues and the company I was at too and some of my friends. I would feel lucky if I get a Lenovo laptop without errors. Dell I haven't heard anything bad of in general, one employee usually preferred buying them and then one other preffered HP. There was one or two people there who ordered Lenovo simply because they were so much cheaper for the specs but build quality and other components are just so garbage.

    Of course, I'm not speaking about their budget 300 euro to 700 euro laptops now. The ones I was able to handle and setup were all 1300 to 3500 euros.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    How long ago was this?

    Many years ago, HP was actually pretty good even on their budget lines of the time. Then those got shitty to keep costs low, and it just creeped up from there until shitty cost cutting was evident throughout all their other lines up through premium business class laptops

    Also, HP's bullshit on other areas like Printing is what earned them the top spot

    Dell suffers the same enshittification on their laptop lines that HP did, just a bit behind. I cannot tell you how many batteries turned into spicy pillows in just MONTHS after being opened even on their supposed premium business laptops

    Lenovo used to be shit, but I've noticed they've stepped their game up the last few years while OTOH Asus is the opposite being good at first but now starting to show signs of enshittification.

    Basically, brand loyalty is BS any brand can turn to shit at any time and any brand can go to being a diamond again (Except HP, they've become irredeemable in my eyes) and those business contracts to get bulk discounts serve no purpose other than to lock in IT departments to that specific brand instead of being able to be flexible when the times change

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Interesting and sad to hear. Personally I’ve gone with Lenovo if I’m not going with Mac. Heck, My wife has a 2011 Lenovo which has been running flawlessly. The only thing I did was bump the RAM and put in an SSD when Win7 upgraded to 10. Maybe I just skipped the crappy years?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    Almost sounds like it, these were all recent experiences. I've been looking at Lenovo previously as a potential "look-at-first" brand, can't really say goto since if there was something more fitting I'd drop them in a heart beat back when looking for laptops but their offerings were cheaper and on paper didn't seem to lack much.