Originally posted by MarkJerling Thank you Mike. I was hoping you'd weigh in. I seem to recall you went through a computer buying exercise not that long ago?
Indeed so
I don't know if you recall, but I had an unfortunate, long-running saga with an HP ZBook 15 G5 with DreamColor 4K panel and integrated colorimeter (see
this post). It's just my opinion, but I believe at that point in time the specific configuration I'd bought wasn't really a fully-proven combination, and since it only sold in very small numbers, I don't believe it was ever sorted (if indeed it could have been), as I wasn't the only one who experienced problems. Whether it was hardware, software, or a mix of both, who knows (it certainly
seemed to be at least partially hardware related), but HP was unable to fix it despite numerous attempts both on and off-site, and they finally bought it back at full price in the last year of its three-year extended warranty.
Having said all that... It was a
beautiful quality machine - superbly built, very robust; and HP's support was generally excellent, even if the end result was that the machine went back to them. I'd certainly buy from them again, based on the service I received.
The spec you've bought should be an absolute rocket-ship. I also think that in its 8th generation, the high-end ZBook should be
very well-sorted by now, both from a hardware and software perspective. I've no doubt you'll love it.
The machine I eventually bought is a rung or three down from your new ZBook - a Lenovo Legion 5 17IMH05H with i7-10750H CPU, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 GPU, 1 x 512GB NVMe SSD for OS and 1 x 2TB SATA III SSD for data. Even so, it's blisteringly fast - easily the quickest laptop I've used, let alone owned, and I'm very happy with it. Looking at the spec of your new HP, though, mine's already looking a bit ersatz
I'm chuffed you've finally upgraded, Mark. Enjoy it, mate!
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