Was this part of the HP battery recall?
[MOD: even if it were, HP would have replaced it during the factory reconditioning.]
Just a point: I have had really good luck with HP >>>FACTORY<<< refurbished units.
Does this laptop have a separate audio jack, one for mic, and one for output? Or is it a single jack that does both?
Havkintosh-able?
"1 headphone/microphone combo; "
No back-lit keyboard
I’ve had a 50/50 (good vs bad) experience. I bought HP factory refurb Chromeboxes (woot) - which are pretty much reference units with a HP logo - and they’ve been fantastic.
But a HP factory refurb AMD ENVY (woot) I picked up a few months ago started acting weird shortly after the 90 days. It’s partly my fault, because I had not truly exercised it more than a few times during that 3 months since I’d bought it for a family member.
The issues with the ENVY happen when it comes out of standby.
On rare occasion it freezes up right after coming out of standby, but the biggest annoyances are the keyboard repeat rate resets to super slow, the touchscreen doesn’t work, or sound doesn’t work. I have to reboot to fix the latter two issues.
It passes the diagnostics every single time so it’s really hard to fault HP for not catching the issue during the refurb process. Furthermore I have no idea why it was sent back to HP in the first place. It could have been this issue or something entirely different.
This deal on the HP Intel laptop is about the same specs and performance as the AMD aside from the screen being smaller and a DVD drive in this deal.
I kinda regret not waiting for this deal to come around as then I could rule out my ENVY issues being an AMD quirk.
no SSD?! an old 5400rpm drive is gonna crawl, even with a 10th gen i5 in it.
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