HP - 17.3" Laptop - Intel Core i3 - 8GB Memory - 1TB HDD - Natural Silver

I found the set up easy with the with the computers verbal instruction guide. I was up any running without a hitch. I really like the silver color and the the buttonless mouse pad. The large 17.3" screen makes work tasks easier on the eyes and watching videos or movies more enjoyable. The screen is fastened with one long hinge as opposed to two individual hinges, which I have found to break over time on other computer products. Great product!

For the price there is nothing better. I bought a second i3 machine for my wife today. The windows 10 setup and windows update process is agonizing. But after the 4 to 8 hours of sluggish performance, the i3 laptop is just as fast as an i5 desktop or an i7 laptop for light computing (word processing, spreadsheet calculations, and video streaming). I own both an i5 and i7 machines; so the comparison is first hand. The light weight, bright screen, and beautiful feel of the keyboard make the computer a delightful portable. I wonder if the negative reviews of others, which complain of slow performance, were based on the four hour plus windows setup and update period, when the computer cannot be used for anything. Which brings us to Windows. Windows update is a curse to anyone trying to get work done. Each Thursday night, Windows sends out hundreds of megabytes of updates, which are downloaded and installed. And during the installation, Windows slows down and sometimes even turns off the internet until it reboots, finalizing the installation. The horrible design of the Windows Kernel belies the constant need for updates to maintain the integrity of the system. Still, I use Windows for work day in and day out. Why use such a horrible system? No choice! 1) Almost every program works flawlessly with windows. 2) The file system and the command processor are not case sensitive, which is much more convenient than than Linux or Mac. 3) Visual Basic for Applications, when combined with Excel, is the greatest tool for data analysis ever written. 4) Since Windows is almost the universal platform, work can be delivered to almost any computer. Linux is close, but it just is not there yet for universal usage. And so I (we) put up with Windows updates. By the way, after more than 4 1/2 hours windows is still updating on my wife's new i3 computer. With all new computers, I force all the updates at once using "Check for Updates."

I bought this 'open box/excellent' laptop a couple of weeks ago. When I got it, it would not boot, but asked for the BitLocker unlock key. Since I had not installed BitLocker, that was not a good thing. In fairness, Best Buy tried to help. I was finally sent to a store in Davenport FL to see if the 'Geek Squad' could help. After trying a couple of USB plugins, nothing could be done so I was told that I could return it. I didn't want to do so. Instead I willfully voided the MFG. warranty and opened the laptop, removed the defective drive, and replaced it with as SSD I had that had Linux Mint 20.1 installed. It worked very well, but I was still not satisfied. After scouring the World Wide Web to find out if Bitlocker could be bypassed, I found a solution, that turned out to be a destructive format of the hard drive. After I repartitioned the original drive with NTFS, I thought I'd try to just install Windows 10 from a Microsoft Windows 10 Installation CD. No luck. The installer couldn't find the drive, although booting into a Linux USB memory stick could indeed see it. Sigh...I just opened the laptop again, which is not very easy to do. In the old days, HP used to have a couple of slider switches on the back case which allowed one to remove the back case to get to the hard drives and external battery. That's another thing...this machine has the battery located inside, so it is not easy to replace. So, here I am with a laptop that never worked from the initial boot and now has a different OS on a different SSD than the drive that was installed by the factory. I have had HP machines in the past and have always been satisfied with them. I can't say the same with this machine.

Horrible computer. Super slow, starting up and opening simple things, like pics and Chrome. Weird blacking out of the screen, like the toolbar on the bottom is still there but everything else is black. Or, other times, it blacks out in 'chunks', like I can see half the page but not the other half, but it's not 'in half', it's in 'sections'. While watching YouTube videos, the video will freeze, then all the page but the video itself will turn white, then when I move the mouse, weird rainbow streaks go across the screen horizontally. Buying this computer was a huge mistake and I'm returning it on Monday. Buyer beware.

Slowest machine ever!!! It took about 5 minutes to start up and several minutes to go from screen to screen. Sometimes the screen would go black and come back on. My email would only setup half way and then it would say there was an error. Returned and paid a little more for a Dell.... so far the Dell is super fast and working perfectly.

Right out of the box was amazed by size and quality of this laptop! Its huge screen looks amazing and its super thin body makes good for storing for travel. Only down fall and i mean only down fall is it does not have a cd-rom drive. With that said easy fix i bought a blu-ray burner cd-rom drive for 70 and it works flawlessly with the laptop. The huge hardrive (1T byte) is perfect for what i needed and the ram is super fast. Strongly recommend this laptop! I am a professional photographer and edit tons of photos and couldn't have asked for a better laptop for that and schooling!

I am about to start fresh new positive beginnings. I knew I could count on Best Buy to provide me with what i needed. Thank you.

I am truly impressed with this laptop and with what it is able to accomplish. I would gladly recommend this laptop to anyone who needed a laptop [for ease of use and ease of setting up-initial start-up.