I made the mistake of buying a second HP laptop in my adult lifetime and wish I’d have remembered the poor experience with the first one. After you’ve spent hours removing the dozens of bloatware programs HP install at the factory, you realize pretty quickly that you get what you pay for. I’ve been involved with (including building) PCs for over 25 years so I’m by no means a computer novice. Simply put, from HPs intrusive software to the worst quality components they can find (the fans they use aren’t worth the space they take up) and hard drives that fail regularly, I’d advise someone to eat a steaming pile of horse dung before buying this utter trash of a line of products from HP. If all you want to do is answer the occasional email and use Office, as long as you don’t mind waiting an eternity for it to boot up, HP might be for you. But honestly, save your money.
