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Why do people recommend Lenovo computers that are poor quality and fail often instead HP EliteBooks that are rock solid and well designed?
I avoid HP at all costs because they're a scumbag company that disables their printers if you don't use them the way they want you to.
Then you should avoid all brands in general because they misbehave in some aspect.
The Lenovos are cheaper to repair by and large, because there's just so many of them. I find HPs have overheating issues and I steer clear of them as a manufacturer.
Our Lenovo notebooks from the last 2 years sound like a jet engine, even when you look at the desktop, known problem, they don't care or give you a possible solution.
My Dell does the exact same thing, or at least did when it was running Windows. I would go to put it to sleep and the fan would spin up like a jet engine, as if it was thinking really hard and doing the exact opposite of what I told it to.
That's because of the broken "modern standby". https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ykdtaIAG_0
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