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    Buying Guides | Updated

    HP Laptops: Pros and Cons From a Repair Shop

    HP covers the whole market, from plastic Stream machines to EliteBook fleet units to Omen gaming laptops, which makes the badge on its own a weak signal of what you are actually buying. This guide sorts the range by family, says what each one gets right and where it causes trouble, and reports what our technicians keep finding inside these machines after a few years of daily use. It also weighs HP against Lenovo and Dell.

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