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I am employed by a company that has invested heavily into technology that allows folks from all over the world to work together seamlessly (albeit riddled with bugs that never get fixed because any P2 issue gets swept under the rug) and has been praising the virtues of "hybrid" work environments. After two years of working from home, I was given the ultimatum that if I was not "compliant" with the vaccine mandate then I would be fired. Even if I decided to forge the documents and take the promotion they are dangling in front of me, it wouldn't be worth it; the campus -that was walking distance from my house- was moved an hours drive from where most of the employees lived. Fuck HP and their kike bullshit. Their products are shit and anyone who buys from them are a fool.

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I have a HP laptop that's about 3 years old. Do you have an alternative brand that is good for standard business use and light graphic design? Want best value for money. Don't need a 10k apple pro .

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just search "best laptop deals June 2022". read the reviews. should find a few good ones under $1k

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Yeah, I have done that, but I thought someone in the know would have some inside information. I hate apple, because of the OS and the price. Don't trust Asus, because I've had them break many times. Not sure about the Chinese brands, as I don't have experience. The HP has served me pretty well, but I'm pretty sure I can get way better for cheaper if I go the Chinese route.

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www.tigerdirect.com They resell retail unsold laptops as well as off lease corporate computers. I have bought from them before and got some great deals.

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Thanks mate. Had a quick browse. Will def look into it further.

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I honestly don't have a clue. I've got a laptop and a tablet by ASUS that -despite their quirks- have served me well. The tablet is a bit under powered but is incredibly robust physically and I used it for my sound tech gigs for about five years with few hiccups. The laptop has an issue where the boot loader gets corrupted if it experiences an unexpected power loss but I believe it's only related to kingston m.3 SSD and it's fixed with a BIOS update. Apart from that I haven't had any issues and I use it for 3D printing and light gaming. My wife has an ASUS laptop as well that she complains about but most of those issues are related to bloatware and windows 10 being windows 10. Hope that helps.

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M1 MacBook Pro if you don’t need to game. It’s like $2k.