Thanks for the link. Might be missing something but can't see that laptop model under the qualifying products?
pendrive2001
15 May 16#5
Best ring I have these on a deal that I posted to my boss on friday. hope it hasnt ended 200 is a steal with the trade in.
tan159
15 May 16#6
Cant see this as a qualifying product for the HP trade up cash back.
spannerzone
15 May 163#7
3% Quidco and 2.1% TCB
£300 for the latest i5 with SSD seems like a bargain to me.
michaeloswell
15 May 161#8
Bought 8 HP's for work tempted by the trade in and cash back offers, 5 have had problems - 4 had vertical line on screen, 1 won't turn on, 1 won't do Windows updates. Sorted under warrantee but not an acceptable failure rate.
kotr to michaeloswell
15 May 16#20
What model. You are being a bit vague.
Price looks to be very cheap.
It's out of stock anyway. Offer expired
they have built in calculator to make your life easier
Ruffuz
15 May 168#12
previous generation cpu and mechanical hard drive
getknk
15 May 162#13
how easy to upgrade memory in these?
captainbeaky
15 May 16#15
The HP 250 & Lenovo G50 always seem good value for money.
ukvikas1
15 May 16#16
That's with an older processor..
M1sterDeeds
15 May 16#17
Sounds like a good deal. I've never had HP (only the sauce), what are the build quality like? Any catch with this lappy apart from the resolution?
danbrooks9237
15 May 16#18
would have got if it wasn't for the rubbish screen!!!
Sp0oner
15 May 16#19
Shame it's not a qualifying product for the trade up.
Bizness
15 May 16#21
Nice
Begize
15 May 16#22
Yep, completely agree. We've evaluated HP kit at work a few times and the hardware failure rate has been shocking. Out of one batch of 5 we had 3 fail within a week, one failed again two months after repair. Another batch of 2, both had the same fan fault.
I also bought am HP laptop myself for home use and was shocked with the poor build quality and ended up returning it for a refund.
Personally, I would avoid HP, particularly now they have split the laptop / desktop business from the rest.
moreteavicar
15 May 161#23
Out of stock
kotr
15 May 16#24
What model. You are being a bit vague
Price looks to be very cheap.
It's out of stock anyway. Offer expired
kotr
15 May 16#25
working for a hp partner and we have had no such issues. we mainly only deal with servers, high end workstations and notebooks. I have never encountered such a failure rate. It's very rare to see any of these machines come back for any other reason bar a faulty hard drive
Also the business support is second to none. Again you haven't mentioned what model you purchased
shoobirdy
15 May 16#26
I have a HP Chromebook( 2 years old), my wife has a HP Pavilion laptop that has been dropped on on the floor a few times (1.5 years old) and my mother-in-law has a HP Pavilion laptop (just over 2 years old) and I've not had any issues with any of them.
I think people will always have bad stories regarding one brand or another no matter which brand you have - even apple products have no end of issues despite their reputation.
Libertas
15 May 16#27
Wow - just wow.
Begize
15 May 161#28
I used to work for a very large HP reseller (I was an HPE accredited hardware engineer) and I now work for a large user of HP servers (we have something like 350 across two data centres). Our various resellers over the last few years have constantly pushed the laptop / desktop line to us (we're 98% Dell hardware on that side) so it's the business side I'm talking about mainly.
The models we had issues with were the higher end Elitebooks which we got mainly because they were a lighter weight option than the Dell equivalent, can't remember the specific models. The faults with the five were three died completely - apparently a motherboard fault, one doing the same thing again. The other batch of two both had a fan fault which caused them to shutdown because they were overheating.
Unfortunately my experience of the business support wasn't good either. You expect that paying well over a thousand for a business laptop you would get on site, especially during an evaluation, but it was all RTB and took over a week. Granted you have the option to pay extra for that, but given that comes as standard on the Dell hardware we buy for half the price of the HP stuff, it was a big factor for us.
Lastly, we also use Microsoft SCCM for our OS deployments and HP's woeful support for it was an issue. It seems they have no common plan across the range with some models having complete driver CAB's available and others forcing you to download individual drivers piecemeal.
I agree HP servers are rock solid and I would love to feel the same about their laptops.
Libertas
15 May 16#29
pendrive - can you please check and update us. Many would be interested in the trade up - but there seems to be some confusion.
coalfield
15 May 16#30
Correct me if I am wrong but its not on the trade-in
Andi Keane
15 May 16#31
HPs customer support staff
pendrive2001
15 May 16#32
Let me find out for you guys, these are going for 319 on laptopsdirect and save on laptops. That is where they had the flyer about cashback on trade up for £200.12 when I sent it to my manager on thursday afternoon. He told me about it before I found the same or similar deal.
Here is the same laptop if this is OOS slightly more expensive. As mentioned £319
brenler
15 May 16#34
great price for this
thecresta
15 May 16#35
I also had an HP laptop, some model number beginning with a 5, or a 2, I think. It kept showing an error message, some kind of Windows problem, must have been a hardware failure so I sent it back. Didn't think to Google it at the time, although it was back in 1997. Haven't touched an HP laptop since as they must all be the same. Hope this is useful to someone...
:smirk:
kotr
15 May 16#36
.[/quote]I also had an HP laptop, some model number beginning with a 5, or a 2, I think. It kept showing an error message, some kind of Windows problem, must have been a hardware failure so I sent it back. Didn't think to Google it at the time, although it was back in 1997. Haven't touched an HP laptop since as they must all be the same. Hope this is useful to someone...:smirk:[/quote]
In my time as a member on this site I don't think I have seen such a ridiculous and uneducated comment as this.
Technology has moved on a bit in the last 19 years.
pc5020
15 May 16#37
why aren't there many 1080p or higher res screens available for this price....:disappointed:
thecresta
15 May 16#38
:smirk:
But seriously, if we took notice of everyone's personal experiences on this site we would never buy anything, especially when their statements provide little-to-no useful information.
For example, it's similar to someone saying "I wouldn't recommend anyone buy an Xbox as I've had 2 not work" on an Xbox One deal. But they omitted to say they had the problem with the Xbox 360, and the problem was some of their original Xbox games wouldn't work on it.
fedex1401
15 May 161#39
As Google wasn't founded until 1998, you would have found "googling" it very difficult indeed! :laughing:
Bubuka83
15 May 16#40
hot
sirhobo
15 May 16#41
Sarcasm flying over a lot of heads today
5nowman
16 May 16#42
Keep an eye on orders. Mine has changed to unable to source item. Please cancel.
Ordered when there was 1 left.
tan159
17 May 16#43
Were these business models or consumer ones. I find the consumer ones really poor but business ones quite durable
dan666
17 May 16#44
Mine is still processing and I ordered when it was Out of stock on back order. Don't hold out much hope though.
5nowman
17 May 16#45
My understanding is the pro models are business ones and are better laptop shells. This was not a pro model.
Begize
17 May 16#46
Business ones, the Elitebooks and higher end models too, so I was expecting something a lot lot better than what we got. To be fair, now they have been repaired we still have and use them.
I bought a consumer model myself which worked and was fine, just the build quality was shocking and the boot speed was terrible, even after flattening and rebuilding without all the OEM bloatware. I returned it and bought a Dell instead which hasn't put a foot wrong.
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£296.73 plus £3.49 standard delivery
Display Size: 15.6in
Processor Model: I5-6200U
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Installed Memory: 4GB
Hard Drive Capacity: 128GB (SSD)
Seems like a decent spec for the price
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£300 for the latest i5 with SSD seems like a bargain to me.
Price looks to be very cheap.
It's out of stock anyway. Offer expired
I also bought am HP laptop myself for home use and was shocked with the poor build quality and ended up returning it for a refund.
Personally, I would avoid HP, particularly now they have split the laptop / desktop business from the rest.
Price looks to be very cheap.
It's out of stock anyway. Offer expired
Also the business support is second to none. Again you haven't mentioned what model you purchased
I think people will always have bad stories regarding one brand or another no matter which brand you have - even apple products have no end of issues despite their reputation.
The models we had issues with were the higher end Elitebooks which we got mainly because they were a lighter weight option than the Dell equivalent, can't remember the specific models. The faults with the five were three died completely - apparently a motherboard fault, one doing the same thing again. The other batch of two both had a fan fault which caused them to shutdown because they were overheating.
Unfortunately my experience of the business support wasn't good either. You expect that paying well over a thousand for a business laptop you would get on site, especially during an evaluation, but it was all RTB and took over a week. Granted you have the option to pay extra for that, but given that comes as standard on the Dell hardware we buy for half the price of the HP stuff, it was a big factor for us.
Lastly, we also use Microsoft SCCM for our OS deployments and HP's woeful support for it was an issue. It seems they have no common plan across the range with some models having complete driver CAB's available and others forcing you to download individual drivers piecemeal.
I agree HP servers are rock solid and I would love to feel the same about their laptops.
Here is the same laptop if this is OOS slightly more expensive. As mentioned £319
:smirk:
In my time as a member on this site I don't think I have seen such a ridiculous and uneducated comment as this.
Technology has moved on a bit in the last 19 years.
But seriously, if we took notice of everyone's personal experiences on this site we would never buy anything, especially when their statements provide little-to-no useful information.
For example, it's similar to someone saying "I wouldn't recommend anyone buy an Xbox as I've had 2 not work" on an Xbox One deal. But they omitted to say they had the problem with the Xbox 360, and the problem was some of their original Xbox games wouldn't work on it.
Ordered when there was 1 left.
I bought a consumer model myself which worked and was fine, just the build quality was shocking and the boot speed was terrible, even after flattening and rebuilding without all the OEM bloatware. I returned it and bought a Dell instead which hasn't put a foot wrong.