Short story. 3 months on a new HP laptop, found an issue, 8 hours on the phone. Off to HP, back in a week, 6 months of calls, surveys and still a dead laptop at their hands. Sorry HP, you had your day.
Bob
Weigh in on 2 laptop choices. I will use this on travel, for email, powerpoint, and browsing. I tend to multitask a lot.
HP 1040 - 14" - i5-4300U, dual core, 1.9GHz - 3.3lbs
or
HP ZBook - 15" -i7-4810U, quad core, 2.8GHz - 6.1lbs

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