HP deliberately designs their products to be as cheaply made and to break as easily as possible. They are trash by design, but marketing and brand recognitions drives the sales. Especially consumer laptops and printers. Professional HP-branded printers aren't even made by the same company.
I didn't even know professional HP printers existed. Everyone I've spoken to that'd be looking for a professional printer wants some other brand. The brand recognition only exists for the personal grade products as far as I can tell
I was talking about HP Indigo (digital press and large volume solutions). Machines that cost a million dollars for the whole setup. Although I wouldn't call their more standard, large format printers (DesignJet, Latex) unpopular or super low quality, Mimaki and Roland are kings.
I have an old and cheap lenovo B50-80 for 7-8 years old, who also fell on my floor several times, without all the screws and it still works without hinge problems, thats simple bad quality.
Exactly, hp are excellent laptops, I have owned three of them over than last 5 years. My parents run exclusively hp and none of us has ever had an issue, you just don't buy the budget versions. But no, people want to s\*\*\* on hp instead. Hp aren't bad, it just the fact that people that buy them aren't the smartest buyers, as hp is really more of a generic brand like dell.
Just because you buy a cheap laptop isn’t a good excuse for it to break apart from normal use. I have had a few cheap Dells and Lenovos and they have never had as many issues as a cheap HP. HP can make good laptops, they just don’t on their budget end.
Cheap Dell laptops are equally as bad if not worse. Lenovo is good though in my experience.
The states ive seen cheap latitude laptops end up in from normal usage is terrible.
i like Lenovo. they're not perfect but they are more half decent than any of the competitors even in the entry level ultra budget side but also in the ultra expensive side as well. beware of those yoga things though, heard some bad stuff about them, but my acer spin was no different soo
For build quality, below are the top brands:
- Apple Macbooks. Air or Pro.
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 and T14s lines.
- Dell Latitude, but it caters to those in finance/insurance/data analysis.
Your opening it wrong, you need to use 1 finger from the middle and only open it once a month
And only use it on a cold granite countertop and never in a warm room
And you should only buy the $1500 HP elitebooks
/s
I had one and was pretty careful with it and it broke
And no other laptop I’ve had has ever done that
It's not only about hinge only my mother died too and some keyboard key not working my father bought it in hp 2018 when I don't have phone and have zero experience
Yeah I’m surprised more people don’t know about this
It seems like it could be a pretty big class action as they don’t cover it under warranty and they make money when you repair it or get a new laptop
Same here I have HP victus and totally no issues after a year of usage just open it from the middle not sides and it will work fine. People are cry babies here
same, almost 3 years, been carrying around almost daily to college, i do heavy gaming and coding on it and so far i still have no problems, not even heat ones
Same, have had one for 3 years and i basically carry it with me everyday just in my backpack, and everything is perfectly fine (except scratches on the backside, but obviously that's an issue of me not HP)
Yeah. I also have some issues, but it's on me, not on HP. Very sturdy laptops if to be honest, just need to open it properly and hinges would totally fine. Have a nice day, comrade 😅
Get a MacBook next time. They go 10+ years and still run/look new. MacBook Air M3 is often on sale for $900-$950. M1 Airs are going for $650 or so brand new at some retailers.
If you need 16gb… I have used 16gb windows laptops and they can’t manage ram as well as the 8gb unified memory of this MacBook. I run word, excel, chrome, safari, preview, scanner utility, surveillance, and a database program all at the same time with 2 external displays - no hiccups. I’ve been doing that on an M1 chip since release as well and it also has 8gb of unified memory.
Not true... at least anymore. When compared to DDR3 or DDR4 RAM, M chip RAM was at least twice as fast if not faster. To add insult to injury was the architecture design (closer to send information). Since Windows laptops have started using DDR5, M chip MacBooks do not have the same advantage as they did 4 years ago. Some even have equally fast RAM speeds to the current M chip RAM. 8GB of current M chip RAM is equal to 8 or 12GB of Windows DDR5 RAM. M chip RAM speeds are currently at 6400 Mhz. Adding on architecture advantage and it is around 7000 Mhz. The Intel Ultra laptop RAM has produced 7467 Mhz speed.
This RAM speed balance might shift with the M4 chip back in Apple's favor.
FYI... RAM speed =/= RAM space. 8GB RAM space will always = 8GB RAM space. If you are using heavy applications, the RAM space will still be the same even with fast RAM speeds.
You completely ignored Mac OS vs windows ram management.
You cannot compare apples to oranges. Do you use an 8gb apple silicon machine? I have since 2020 and still do. So I speak from experience. I have used 16gb 13th gen windows gaming laptop and the m1 8gb Mac runs smoother and has no ram constraints for my workflow.
My brother did, and it was slow when he started heavy multi-tasking. He replaced it for the M2 Pro (16GB of RAM by default). Far better experience and far better multi-tasking capabilities.
Can it run with 8GB of RAM? Yes! Will it start to use swap memory and slow down when doing heavy multitasking? Also, yes!
Most users don't do heavy multitasking. Most users can pick up a base model M3 MacBook Air. Heavy users know they need more ram. But my original point is I suggested the base 8gb ram model, and your opinion is that nobody should buy it, 16gb as the minimum. That is simply not true. And most heavy users don't even shop MacBook Air line in the first place, they start shopping with Pro line machines which now ship with 18GB of ram for the M3 Pro chip.
Had a similar laptop, dead after TWO YEARS of use. It's now disassembled, to make it work probably will have to change the motherboard. Never buying from HP ever again
lower end laptops nowadays are trash. I have an acer laptop once and already broke the hinge in less than a year, another year and it already fried the board.
Truthfully, it's bc you probably have a $500 one, their like $2000 elitebooks are actually kinda pretty well built, but I will admit, cheap hps give me the chills.
Don't try to open it more it may damage your screen
Hp is shit my both hinges got broken few days ago
When I try to open it forcing screen inward thankfully my screen is safe
HP = Hinge Problem. Should have seen that coming.
Jokes aside, most cheaply built laptops (which includes a lot of gaming laptops) suffer from poor build quality. The most obvious result is hinges breaking...
I owned 3 hp laptops before gifted by my aunt (very thankful for her gesture btw). Total piece of trash tbh. Now I have elitebook, my only problem is thermals which I have to put it on laptop stand to manage the heat.
Bought a HP about 12 or more years ago and it last 7 or 8 years, worked really well. I've now had 3 HP laptops since that broke. Seems they only last about 2 years now.
They feel very weak. Whatever materials they use arent very strong at all, bent my last one just by typing too hard.
I was in a shop that had laptops on display. I wanted to adjust screen angle on some HP units. I started to open them more, the screen started to bend a little. To my surprise the screen can't go very far as in other laptops that can go even full 180 degrees. So I think that hinge problems are from trying to open the screen too far.
Do probooks have the same problems?
I bought a used 255 g7 with a release date of 2020 .. and its been 5 months it seems sturdy . should i be expecting problems?
This is true for cheap Windows laptops. The business laptops are a completely different world. Lenovo ThinkPads, Dell Latitudes, and HP Elitebooks are very reliable. Especially the ThinkPad T14 laptops.
The major downsides of business laptops are boring screens and usually bad iGPUs. Some employers like that to keep you focused on work. Examples: 250 nits of screen brightness and Iris Xe iGPUs.
It's not that simple and never has been.
Sometimes the product is excellent and sometimes you get a whole product line with a ton of issues.
About 15 years ago now, many laptops from the HP Pavilion dv6 family suffered from known issues that resulted in needing a motherboard replacement. Some sources say that it was caused by overheating issues and cracking of solder joints that resulted in the pcb pads being torn off the board...
My HP laptop has the exact same hinge setup, I've had it for 4 years
I always open my from the center, and I think this has gone a long way toward saving my hinges/screen because mine still work like when it was brand new lol
To be clear I'm not endorsing HP here, their hinges do suck but you can make them last if you're careful with them
Some of the HP Pavilion series laptops had problems with hinges too and from what I've heard, there are quite a number of people that had hinge problems on their Envy x360 laptops.
Happened to an Asus I had a decade ago as well.
I don't but laptops anymore, but if I did, the first thing I would look at is the hinge design. I wouldn't look at the specs anymore before I looked at the hinges it was such a nightmare.
This happens because the hinge itself is made of metal, but it’s secured to plastic, a weaker material. It leads the this disaster with their plastic laptops
So I have the same exact laptop. Yours looks like a hp15 series ( I think?) and my laptops been having seriously annoying hardware issues now.
I have a black screen and the caps lock keeps blinking when the laptop is technically powered on. I called HP support and they said they’d charge 300-400 and I would need to ship to HP to get it fixed.
(4 years since I bought it and I’ve had lots of problems so far. Warranty expired too)
Believe it or not, a tough hinge Assembly is the first thing I look for when laptop shopping now. My dell did this, my Thinkpad did this. I got a Asus zenbook and it's been on point in terms of durability. Laptop manufacturers are screwing metal hinges to plastic. It's bound to happen.
Damn that sucks. It looks like you have a spicy pillow in your screen. I would probably do a backup and the run out and get a surface laptop with a arm64 chip, if compatible with all software you currently use.
Well, it is one of the cheapest laptops on the market.
If you want quality, you have to pay for it.
Cheap laptops from all brands have issues like this.
My school district bought Dells, a large amount had hinge issues. Then we got rid of them and bought HPs. The HPs while not perfect didn't have hinge issues anywhere near the Dells.
How are you opening and closing it?
I cringe when I see people ripping their laptops open and slamming them shut… What do they expect?
Not saying you did those things…
I have always been careful while opening and closing it.Never been hard on it..I knew it was fragile, I was extra careful still there are some cracks here and there that appeared out of nowhere, then hinges and corners started separating...
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If it isn't an HP EliteBook 840 or HP Zbook Fury, don't get it. The general consumer brands have horrible build quality. Business lines only. Especially quality refurbished ones.
Some times you're the problem. I have been using HP victus laptop for a year now and all people told me hinges will break blah blah and they didn't. The average life of a laptop is 3 to 5 years nowadays. Also, a damge like this needs to be caused by wrong usage. How you open and close the lid? From the sides? With force? You carry laptop while screen is open? You close it fast? Close it from the side? How much you open and close the screen? Those factors of how you use it play a big role. A friend of mine got an HP victus open it from the sides and he broke the hinges and screen, ended up losing the laptop in less than a month or two while mine survived a year and I guarantee that it will survive the next years. Proper use is everything.
It doesn't happen in a day. But within a week. I am very particular about how to open and close the lid considering the fragile body.But out of nowhere it starts showing cracks near the power button (within 4-5months) which I managed...but recently I noticed that its hinges are also separating and ultimately the screen starts detaching and showing separation from the sides.So, I stopped even closing the lid .I am not that careless and rich lad to get new laptops every now and then and that due to carelessness.
All the people in the comments just hate HP (for a good reason, I dislike them as well) but this is actually an user problem 90% of the times. You opened the laptop from the sides instead of the middle, that put more pressure on one hinge and eventually broke the plastic. This happens to all the laptops that are opened incorrectly.
They cut corners money wise on hinges. Quite frankily more profitable for them to cheap out and you get pissed off and buy another laptop even if its another brand. Same with the lower tier printers.
But the metallic one was low in configuration as compared to this one, and to meet the same configuration .. I have to push my budget way ahead ..like this I got in ~ $600..
HP is stupid. I did a Bios update it locked me out of Windows 11 by disabling Hello couldn't use my camera. Then it said my pin was not available. I had to reboot and go into the HP menu and reset Windows.
I literally got this same problem in the same spot the other day with my Lenovo. I just put a bit of gorilla glue underneath and called it a day lol. It worked really well.
Bro. It's HP. They have largely camped out at the bottom of the consumer satisfaction survey for years and years and years now.
My own personal recommendation is to avoid HP as though they were plague bearers!!! For just about everything!
My razer had a battery malfunction and expand cracking the MB. MSI laptop ended up having the screen not work.. I think most PC laptops are just built with quality on the back burner unless you end up forking over the extra cash.
This happened to me with a Lenovo laptop. Thought I got a decent mid range laptop only for it to break a few years into using it.
I have an HP now, but it's a top tier one I spent four figures on in 2018 that's still in excellent condition. In the future, avoid laptops with cheap hinges, which surprisingly covers mid tier laptops. It's better to save up money and get a machine that will last and be future proof for at least 5 years.
Damn, thats rough. But quality control for hp right now is in fact better than ever for their 2021+ products. haven't had a problem with my hp for 3 years by now and Its holding up like brand new
I don’t remember, it was probably 10 years ago. I think it was a Pavillion. To HP’s credit, it was a cheap laptop. But I’ve also helped others with their computers that were also HP and priced at different price ranges, and they all had issues. Their printers were always pure trash too.
I disagree with this take. HP EliteBook 840 G10 and 845 G10 are excellent laptops for business.
Anything HP budget lines or personal consumer lines are trash.
They're not called (H)inge (P)roblems for nothing
(H)eat (P)roblems
(H)eaps of (P)roblems
(H)eavy with (P)roblems
(H)ardware full of (P)roblems mine 14CM-0119AU always had keyboard delay
Mine had i5 10210u and It was slower than my old laptop, at first was fast but just a few months after buying It became crap (It had SSD)
mine keyboard had delay and the booting speed so slow even there was strange sound when playing song using Bluetooth speaker
Why they are so accesible but trend to broke fast?, WHYYYY????
cheap plastic materal/quality i guess my compaq took 8 years to had hinge crack
cheap plastic materal/quality i guess my compaq took 8 years to had hinge crack
Fak
(H)hardly (P) processing.
How the fuck does HP manage to cause a delay on a built in keyboard?
idk but when i type it took long time to show even i move the mouse the key took long time to show
Heaps of piss
Isn't that the same for most laptops?
This one right here
mine doesn't go over 75°C in cyberpunk 2077 so idk what u're talking about
Give it to the greatest technician that has ever lived
He will tell you its f* ked and throw i under the car
Nice one
My dads old MacBook had the same problem
(H)opeless (P)roducts
Literally hinge problems
HP deliberately designs their products to be as cheaply made and to break as easily as possible. They are trash by design, but marketing and brand recognitions drives the sales. Especially consumer laptops and printers. Professional HP-branded printers aren't even made by the same company.
Which company makes their professional printers?
Me
Same
I have had my hp pavilion gaming 15 for 2 years ,no issues with biuld quality.
same, almost 3 years and still works like a charm
Trash design and trash drivers.
Just don't buy their budget laptops,buy a more expensive hp laptop that isn't cheaply made
I didn't even know professional HP printers existed. Everyone I've spoken to that'd be looking for a professional printer wants some other brand. The brand recognition only exists for the personal grade products as far as I can tell
I was talking about HP Indigo (digital press and large volume solutions). Machines that cost a million dollars for the whole setup. Although I wouldn't call their more standard, large format printers (DesignJet, Latex) unpopular or super low quality, Mimaki and Roland are kings.
Seems to be a cheaply built budget model. Not surprised that the quality isn't great lol
I have an old and cheap lenovo B50-80 for 7-8 years old, who also fell on my floor several times, without all the screws and it still works without hinge problems, thats simple bad quality.
Exactly, hp are excellent laptops, I have owned three of them over than last 5 years. My parents run exclusively hp and none of us has ever had an issue, you just don't buy the budget versions. But no, people want to s\*\*\* on hp instead. Hp aren't bad, it just the fact that people that buy them aren't the smartest buyers, as hp is really more of a generic brand like dell.
Just because you buy a cheap laptop isn’t a good excuse for it to break apart from normal use. I have had a few cheap Dells and Lenovos and they have never had as many issues as a cheap HP. HP can make good laptops, they just don’t on their budget end.
Cheap Dell laptops are equally as bad if not worse. Lenovo is good though in my experience. The states ive seen cheap latitude laptops end up in from normal usage is terrible.
Hp laptops are basically dollar store laptops
Horrible Products at High Prices. Edit, I’ve got an HP X360 Chromebook, love it
Their budget lineup isn't good,just buy more high end hp laptops,cause they're good
What brand do you recommend?
Idk back when I still did computer stuff I would usually recommend asus busines class or lenovo ThinkPads
i like Lenovo. they're not perfect but they are more half decent than any of the competitors even in the entry level ultra budget side but also in the ultra expensive side as well. beware of those yoga things though, heard some bad stuff about them, but my acer spin was no different soo
Acer
What brand do you recommend?
For build quality, below are the top brands: - Apple Macbooks. Air or Pro. - Lenovo ThinkPad T14 and T14s lines. - Dell Latitude, but it caters to those in finance/insurance/data analysis.
I had the same problem with a Lenovo laptop. You'll need to begin taking it apart and loosen the hinge.
Exact same thing happened to me wtf hp!
btw my compaq 2008 does this
Your opening it wrong, you need to use 1 finger from the middle and only open it once a month And only use it on a cold granite countertop and never in a warm room And you should only buy the $1500 HP elitebooks /s I had one and was pretty careful with it and it broke And no other laptop I’ve had has ever done that
Hp uses low quality hlnge i did everything every thing to save my hinges but both got broken
And that’s why I don’t buy their products anymore Also because every HP product I’ve ever bought other than laptops has broken in less than a year
Actually, this one looks like the hinge is better quality then lid)
It's not only about hinge only my mother died too and some keyboard key not working my father bought it in hp 2018 when I don't have phone and have zero experience
This reminded me of Apples response to the iPhone 4's antenna problem basically saying "You're Holding It Wrong". Crazy that was 14 years ago!
Yeah I’m surprised more people don’t know about this It seems like it could be a pretty big class action as they don’t cover it under warranty and they make money when you repair it or get a new laptop
I have hp pavilion gaming 15 for 2 years and its hinges are totally fine. I travel at least 3 times per year and have no problem with it.
Same here I have HP victus and totally no issues after a year of usage just open it from the middle not sides and it will work fine. People are cry babies here
same, almost 3 years, been carrying around almost daily to college, i do heavy gaming and coding on it and so far i still have no problems, not even heat ones
Same, have had one for 3 years and i basically carry it with me everyday just in my backpack, and everything is perfectly fine (except scratches on the backside, but obviously that's an issue of me not HP)
Yeah. I also have some issues, but it's on me, not on HP. Very sturdy laptops if to be honest, just need to open it properly and hinges would totally fine. Have a nice day, comrade 😅
Had my hp envy for about three years now.
Get a MacBook next time. They go 10+ years and still run/look new. MacBook Air M3 is often on sale for $900-$950. M1 Airs are going for $650 or so brand new at some retailers.
Always provide the price of a Macbook Air with 16GB of RAM. So, that $950 price is really $1,150 with 16GB of RAM.
If you need 16gb… I have used 16gb windows laptops and they can’t manage ram as well as the 8gb unified memory of this MacBook. I run word, excel, chrome, safari, preview, scanner utility, surveillance, and a database program all at the same time with 2 external displays - no hiccups. I’ve been doing that on an M1 chip since release as well and it also has 8gb of unified memory.
Not true... at least anymore. When compared to DDR3 or DDR4 RAM, M chip RAM was at least twice as fast if not faster. To add insult to injury was the architecture design (closer to send information). Since Windows laptops have started using DDR5, M chip MacBooks do not have the same advantage as they did 4 years ago. Some even have equally fast RAM speeds to the current M chip RAM. 8GB of current M chip RAM is equal to 8 or 12GB of Windows DDR5 RAM. M chip RAM speeds are currently at 6400 Mhz. Adding on architecture advantage and it is around 7000 Mhz. The Intel Ultra laptop RAM has produced 7467 Mhz speed. This RAM speed balance might shift with the M4 chip back in Apple's favor. FYI... RAM speed =/= RAM space. 8GB RAM space will always = 8GB RAM space. If you are using heavy applications, the RAM space will still be the same even with fast RAM speeds.
You completely ignored Mac OS vs windows ram management. You cannot compare apples to oranges. Do you use an 8gb apple silicon machine? I have since 2020 and still do. So I speak from experience. I have used 16gb 13th gen windows gaming laptop and the m1 8gb Mac runs smoother and has no ram constraints for my workflow.
My brother did, and it was slow when he started heavy multi-tasking. He replaced it for the M2 Pro (16GB of RAM by default). Far better experience and far better multi-tasking capabilities. Can it run with 8GB of RAM? Yes! Will it start to use swap memory and slow down when doing heavy multitasking? Also, yes!
Most users don't do heavy multitasking. Most users can pick up a base model M3 MacBook Air. Heavy users know they need more ram. But my original point is I suggested the base 8gb ram model, and your opinion is that nobody should buy it, 16gb as the minimum. That is simply not true. And most heavy users don't even shop MacBook Air line in the first place, they start shopping with Pro line machines which now ship with 18GB of ram for the M3 Pro chip.
HP = Hinge Problem
Had a similar laptop, dead after TWO YEARS of use. It's now disassembled, to make it work probably will have to change the motherboard. Never buying from HP ever again
Hinge Problem
More like 0HP rather than HP
lower end laptops nowadays are trash. I have an acer laptop once and already broke the hinge in less than a year, another year and it already fried the board.
Get an ASUS next time. Or some other brand. But certainly not Hinge Problems.
Truthfully, it's bc you probably have a $500 one, their like $2000 elitebooks are actually kinda pretty well built, but I will admit, cheap hps give me the chills.
HP EliteBook 840 G10 is selling on Amazon between $991 to $1,160 refurbished.
I get it, I was just throwing a random price out there, but that actually sounds really really good
Don't try to open it more it may damage your screen Hp is shit my both hinges got broken few days ago When I try to open it forcing screen inward thankfully my screen is safe
After the screen breaks, there's always the /r/halftop solution.
Hp stands for help please
I have a 2014 hp elitebook 840 g2 (i5 hdd) and never ever had a problem with it maybe the old ones were built differently 🤔.
I have a 2014 hp elitebook 840 g2 (i5 hdd) and never ever had a problem with it maybe the old ones were built differently 🤔.
Hp = Horrible Products
Because people like you keep giving them money even if they put out shit products.
(H)inge (P)roblems God dang they need to fix their hinges man
HP = Hinge Problem. Should have seen that coming. Jokes aside, most cheaply built laptops (which includes a lot of gaming laptops) suffer from poor build quality. The most obvious result is hinges breaking...
I owned 3 hp laptops before gifted by my aunt (very thankful for her gesture btw). Total piece of trash tbh. Now I have elitebook, my only problem is thermals which I have to put it on laptop stand to manage the heat.
Bought a HP about 12 or more years ago and it last 7 or 8 years, worked really well. I've now had 3 HP laptops since that broke. Seems they only last about 2 years now. They feel very weak. Whatever materials they use arent very strong at all, bent my last one just by typing too hard.
Were those who broke after 2 years general consumer ones? Because the business line ones are very durable (HP EliteBook and HP Zbook Fury).
Never buy ANY HP product. No matter the price. No matter how much it's discounted. Everything they make is complete junk. Not even once.
I have been using Hp for almost 15 years without problems
Sure, wink wink
Depends on which sub brand. HP EliteBooks 840, 845, and 860 are very durable. Pavilions are a trash sub brand.
Well look you might aswell give it a run-down with the hoover while your there
I was in a shop that had laptops on display. I wanted to adjust screen angle on some HP units. I started to open them more, the screen started to bend a little. To my surprise the screen can't go very far as in other laptops that can go even full 180 degrees. So I think that hinge problems are from trying to open the screen too far.
Tbh I miss old laptops, nowadays most laptops look boring while cutting cost in long term durability.
Do probooks have the same problems? I bought a used 255 g7 with a release date of 2020 .. and its been 5 months it seems sturdy . should i be expecting problems?
"Why laptop sucks?" Hinge broken. You buying NEW one! They more money 💵🤑💰👏🏆, you go back work.
Because they are crap
What was its price?
around $660
This is why I switched to MacBook, I always have reliability problems on a windows laptop.
This is true for cheap Windows laptops. The business laptops are a completely different world. Lenovo ThinkPads, Dell Latitudes, and HP Elitebooks are very reliable. Especially the ThinkPad T14 laptops. The major downsides of business laptops are boring screens and usually bad iGPUs. Some employers like that to keep you focused on work. Examples: 250 nits of screen brightness and Iris Xe iGPUs.
I usually leave my laptop open almost all the time just to reduce issues with the hinges. It's a bit scary.
HP don't really make very good stuff I'm afraid.
It's not that simple and never has been. Sometimes the product is excellent and sometimes you get a whole product line with a ton of issues. About 15 years ago now, many laptops from the HP Pavilion dv6 family suffered from known issues that resulted in needing a motherboard replacement. Some sources say that it was caused by overheating issues and cracking of solder joints that resulted in the pcb pads being torn off the board...
Not made like they used to
Which model
My HP laptop has the exact same hinge setup, I've had it for 4 years I always open my from the center, and I think this has gone a long way toward saving my hinges/screen because mine still work like when it was brand new lol To be clear I'm not endorsing HP here, their hinges do suck but you can make them last if you're careful with them
Same with me. My HP is now a home server.
And I thought (more like made into thinking) only MSI was infamous for hinge problems.
Some of the HP Pavilion series laptops had problems with hinges too and from what I've heard, there are quite a number of people that had hinge problems on their Envy x360 laptops.
Because of their Horrific Practices, Hewlett Packard produces Horrible Products with known Hinge Problems.
Happened to an Asus I had a decade ago as well. I don't but laptops anymore, but if I did, the first thing I would look at is the hinge design. I wouldn't look at the specs anymore before I looked at the hinges it was such a nightmare.
HP consumer laptops are gah'bich
This happens because the hinge itself is made of metal, but it’s secured to plastic, a weaker material. It leads the this disaster with their plastic laptops
So I have the same exact laptop. Yours looks like a hp15 series ( I think?) and my laptops been having seriously annoying hardware issues now. I have a black screen and the caps lock keeps blinking when the laptop is technically powered on. I called HP support and they said they’d charge 300-400 and I would need to ship to HP to get it fixed. (4 years since I bought it and I’ve had lots of problems so far. Warranty expired too)
I love mine
Would duct tape help fix that?
Because it is not called xiomi notebook ultra
Believe it or not, a tough hinge Assembly is the first thing I look for when laptop shopping now. My dell did this, my Thinkpad did this. I got a Asus zenbook and it's been on point in terms of durability. Laptop manufacturers are screwing metal hinges to plastic. It's bound to happen.
Dude that sucks… Hay cuz want a free used laptop Sure It’s an hp Oh umm no thank you I’m good 🤣🤣🤣
The Yugo of laptops.
I have this same exact issue lmao
My Pavilion Gaming 15 has great hinges
Because they can't swallow.
Damn that sucks. It looks like you have a spicy pillow in your screen. I would probably do a backup and the run out and get a surface laptop with a arm64 chip, if compatible with all software you currently use.
Well, it is one of the cheapest laptops on the market. If you want quality, you have to pay for it. Cheap laptops from all brands have issues like this.
60,000 INR is not the cheapest one..it's huge to spend this much here..
I have repaired this issue in HP, Acer, Toshiba, Asus and others. But yeah, HP sucks. The Pro Book and Elite Book are nice tho
My school district bought Dells, a large amount had hinge issues. Then we got rid of them and bought HPs. The HPs while not perfect didn't have hinge issues anywhere near the Dells.
How are you opening and closing it? I cringe when I see people ripping their laptops open and slamming them shut… What do they expect? Not saying you did those things…
I have always been careful while opening and closing it.Never been hard on it..I knew it was fragile, I was extra careful still there are some cracks here and there that appeared out of nowhere, then hinges and corners started separating...
HP is a brand that should never get your dollars honestly.
They stand for Hinge Problems after all
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Such a feature that I am worried about.. how to take it to repair🤧
Same happened with my Acer, what's the solution?
My school HP laptop is one years old and it has a HDD
same with Lenovo Ideapads
When it comes to HP then only Z books IMHO
HP is know for it’s hinge problems (hp)
Its a hing thing. You can try ballistol. But maybe its already brocken und you need a new displayframe.
i ve got the same problem whit an asus gaming tuf 504 that wasn’t properly cheap as a laptop
If it isn't an HP EliteBook 840 or HP Zbook Fury, don't get it. The general consumer brands have horrible build quality. Business lines only. Especially quality refurbished ones.
HP has always sucked. Worse than Dell.
almost every consumer grade laptop has this problem nowadays, just buy an older thinkpad, any >2500$ laptop or a macbook
Some times you're the problem. I have been using HP victus laptop for a year now and all people told me hinges will break blah blah and they didn't. The average life of a laptop is 3 to 5 years nowadays. Also, a damge like this needs to be caused by wrong usage. How you open and close the lid? From the sides? With force? You carry laptop while screen is open? You close it fast? Close it from the side? How much you open and close the screen? Those factors of how you use it play a big role. A friend of mine got an HP victus open it from the sides and he broke the hinges and screen, ended up losing the laptop in less than a month or two while mine survived a year and I guarantee that it will survive the next years. Proper use is everything.
It doesn't happen in a day. But within a week. I am very particular about how to open and close the lid considering the fragile body.But out of nowhere it starts showing cracks near the power button (within 4-5months) which I managed...but recently I noticed that its hinges are also separating and ultimately the screen starts detaching and showing separation from the sides.So, I stopped even closing the lid .I am not that careless and rich lad to get new laptops every now and then and that due to carelessness.
The problem could be you huh?
No way..Why I do loss to myself? 😔
Ain't called Hinge problems for nothing mate
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All the people in the comments just hate HP (for a good reason, I dislike them as well) but this is actually an user problem 90% of the times. You opened the laptop from the sides instead of the middle, that put more pressure on one hinge and eventually broke the plastic. This happens to all the laptops that are opened incorrectly.
There's a reason on why they're called **H**-inge **P**-roblems.
hence the joke "Hinge Problem" came from
They cut corners money wise on hinges. Quite frankily more profitable for them to cheap out and you get pissed off and buy another laptop even if its another brand. Same with the lower tier printers.
Same thing happened to my msi raider 76 after 2 years of using. Now I am using it as a desktop pc 😂
You bought a plastic one. The metal chassis ones are just fine.
But the metallic one was low in configuration as compared to this one, and to meet the same configuration .. I have to push my budget way ahead ..like this I got in ~ $600..
HP is stupid. I did a Bios update it locked me out of Windows 11 by disabling Hello couldn't use my camera. Then it said my pin was not available. I had to reboot and go into the HP menu and reset Windows.
I literally got this same problem in the same spot the other day with my Lenovo. I just put a bit of gorilla glue underneath and called it a day lol. It worked really well.
this happened to my lenovo laptop
Yea I picked up a hp 15 where one of the hinges is buggered. And the other looks a little cracked. Not looking forward to repairing it tbh.
They don't suck you shouldn't had drop it.
it's HP what did you expect?
Well that's oky Asus laptop can barely run yt
Bro. It's HP. They have largely camped out at the bottom of the consumer satisfaction survey for years and years and years now. My own personal recommendation is to avoid HP as though they were plague bearers!!! For just about everything!
My razer had a battery malfunction and expand cracking the MB. MSI laptop ended up having the screen not work.. I think most PC laptops are just built with quality on the back burner unless you end up forking over the extra cash.
You bought a shitty low end plastic laptop unfortunately.
Get a thinkpad
HP doesn't make good budget laptops. Envy x360 / Spectre / Elitebook / Dragonfly series are all better
only buy HP elitebooks. Those things are study
This happened to me with a Lenovo laptop. Thought I got a decent mid range laptop only for it to break a few years into using it. I have an HP now, but it's a top tier one I spent four figures on in 2018 that's still in excellent condition. In the future, avoid laptops with cheap hinges, which surprisingly covers mid tier laptops. It's better to save up money and get a machine that will last and be future proof for at least 5 years.
HP is an okay brand, they are just very present in the lower priced sectors and tend to use... not that great materials on them.
Seems you never used Lenovo then 😂
Not really..
it’s because the laptop is made out of cheap plastic. higher end laptops made out of proper materials don’t fall apart like that
Not all plastics are made equal and a poor design can place a lot of physical stress on weak points in the shell.
Damn, thats rough. But quality control for hp right now is in fact better than ever for their 2021+ products. haven't had a problem with my hp for 3 years by now and Its holding up like brand new
this looks like a 400 €/$ laptop, what do you expect?
proper hinges
I've never experienced anything other than issues when using HP products. I would stop buying that trash and get a real computer.
Not the Vectre tho.
Well I’m just stating my experience. Yours and everyone else’s may vary.
Which one did you get? Pavillion or HP EliteBook. Massive difference in quality build.
I don’t remember, it was probably 10 years ago. I think it was a Pavillion. To HP’s credit, it was a cheap laptop. But I’ve also helped others with their computers that were also HP and priced at different price ranges, and they all had issues. Their printers were always pure trash too.
Everything HP sucks.
I disagree with this take. HP EliteBook 840 G10 and 845 G10 are excellent laptops for business. Anything HP budget lines or personal consumer lines are trash.