Your keyboard may fail and the motherboard may start to fail. Do Google and you will see so many people complaining with no fix except replacing the motherboard or the keyboard
This item is currently being sold for a very low price online, and I'm considering buying it. 3:16 However, I'm not a fan of large bezels, especially in 2024 when they can make a device look outdated.
I bought a refurbished one recently for £350…but I paid extra for a 500GB main drive, 1TB SSD backup drive and 16GB of RAM. I’m not a game player but it’s a lovely laptop and plugged into a docking station I run 2 x 24” Ilyama displays, creative 5.1 surround sound in my home office with wireless keyboard and mouse .
It’s a great laptop, presently using it for coding. Found the keys on this to be nicer than the newer M2 MacBook Pro so there’s that. All metal build. The speakers aren’t that loud and you can’t game on it but it’s great for all programming and text related tasks and other cpu intensive programs. Not mind-blowing but still worth every penny. Windows 11 runs great on it, but you need to mess with TPM to make Win11 work on it.
Thank you for this lovely review. I think the biggest problems I've seen in these notebooks is that they seriously thermal throttle and that the SIM card function is often disabled when there's a cumulative Windows update.
@@svenskgangmiljo2168 not overpriced at 2021 anymore. I'll rather buy some old laptops as they have higher specs but cheaper. Some brand new Asus with Intel Celeron is still being produced this year. It's twice expensive from i3,i5 7th Gen.
HP made it optional unfortunately. Meaning you have to ask the seller if you want to buy one on the second hand market. Or order one with the optional backlit keys
I just bought one of these for $50 refurbished though a partnership with my ISP and all of the COVID relief the US government passed. It's a nice little machine for that price. The BIOS has a lot of weird security though... so I couldn't get Linux or Chrome OS Flex to boot... so Windows 10 it is...
Need to search in the right places my friend , I have been using Arch Linux dual boot with Windows 10 for more than a year now on my 840 G3, no issues seen.
weird, mine as 8GB ram and a 128GB drive... but mine was refurbished. And a damn good buy ! PS, I LOVE your accent... Wish there were more ladies from over there down here in Aus.. :)
I just got one today for a good price I'm happy with it but would be nice to be 1080. Love the usb3. And no hdmi out? Ok for me I don't really use that option
got one for free recently . note, these batteries are prone to swelling up so pay attention to see if yours is starting to bulge. new batteries are fairly inexpensive. mine was running Windows 10 and was easily upgradeable to Windows 11. after a few months though decided to turn it to Chome OS Flex machine instead. works very well with Chrome OS Flex. boots up so quickly. mine has SSD drive and 8GB RAM
@@ajayioluwaseun9409 This is how it works..Bios button is on the side right?when you press it you can set your PC so when someone else turn it on ,it denies direct access to the windows page,so unless a person know how to remove the EFI booting option.
Bishnu Shrestha just about anything you can do from a USB type A port. There are generational differences but they are functionally the same in terms of use. Think of use-c at the future interface, as time passes more and more things are using this port design over usb-a. The 840 did not get thunderbolt until the G5 and this is the G3, thunderbolt uses the usb-c interface but is much faster and supported things like graphics card due to be connected to the PCIe rails. Not exactly part of your question but I think it’s really good info to have.
I am planning to buy a model with the specs: i7, 256 SSD, with an additional 500 SSD internally installed, and 16 gb DDR4 RAM. So my question is should I go for this one since my main usage is heavy editing and use of Adobe CC photoshop, illustrator and artrage editing softwares. Will it be able to handle the workload without crashes or lag if the specs are the ones I have mentioned?
it is business notebook and business notebook are usually expensive than customer model because they have more quality components and are supported for long term (more than 5 years)
@@Dovecomputers may I know, why can't it handle? I have a Dell laptop that is like 8 years old and has only 3Gb RAM, amazingly everything works sort of fine except for a few things but i want to change it now. I wanted to buy this one since I am getting it half the original price from someone who have already used it though. Point of asking, if i can use adobe tools(illustrator, Photoshop and aftereffects) in my old one, why can't i use it in this HP one? and since, i am getting it at a half price?
Hi...could someone please help me out....this has 256GB SSD only...will that be sufficient will we be able to increase the memory by any means....I love this product but memory is my only concern
