Laptops for college students

cobrat
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:57:24 +0000

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I tend to be wary of HP Pavilion notebooks. Saw so many of them have issues such as graphic chips requiring resoldering/reheating due to loose connections, poor build quality, and serious overheating issues due to poorly thought out ventilation design and use of the cheapest thermal paste.

With one friend’s i7 based Pavilion which he bought against my advice…that notebook runs hotter than my old P4 Prescott-based desktop Hackintosh. That’s pretty sad.

Second the recommendation for the refurbed/used Thinkpads/Lenovos…provided they have adequate warranties/OP can serve as his own tech support if there are skimpy/no warranties.