Ask HN: What's your next choice for laptops after Lenovo, Dell and HP?

Is there a passable fourth choice behind the Lenovo, Dell, & HP triumvirate for light business use laptops?

Ideally, I'd like something that falls between the price points of a big-box crapbook and a Thinkpad T-series but is built well enough to stand up to light-duty business use, in a work-from-home setting, without overheating daily or falling apart after a few months.

This is for someone who's somewhat disabled. They have a limited budget but also can't treat hardware gently enough for fragile consumer laptops to be a viable choice.

8GB RAM / 128GB SSD / FHD (or even HD+) non-glare screen is good enough.

Any suggestions?

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auslegung 5y ago ↗

If pricepoint is the main concern, have you considered buying one of those used?

bleepblorp 5y ago ↗

That is my usual practice. However, the pandemic has increased the prices of used/refurbished notebooks so much that it's no longer worth the risk to buy used.