I Got A New Laptop 3 Years Ago and It’s Holding Up Fine

Three years ago I got a new laptop, the HP Pavillion x360 14, and it’s been fine. I wish I had the choice, but the 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM and 11th Gen i5 are good enough. My main complaints are:

• The battery life sucks,
• no backlit keyboard (unlike the previous laptop),
• the bluetooth sucks,
• you have to remove the rubber feet to repair the laptop and
• bad heat management and thermal throttling.

Besides these issues, the laptop is fine. I’m annoyed that I have to use it at once where they aren’t paying me for using it, but it is what it is. I can’t afford a new laptop right now but if you wanna send me some money, email me at mailto:[email protected], lol. I do wish I could get more RAM, storage and Thunderbolt ports.

The SSD went bust a few months ago and thankfully I had just backed it up before it happened. Also, a lot of screws went missing so the bottom is rather flappy. It’s rare but it sometimes dies and refuses to wake up unless you reconnect the battery. It happened when I went to Vietnam and thankfully the repair shop did it for free.

As for what I put on it, read My Laptop Setup. I just reinstalled my laptp again so expect the post to be updated quite a bit.