Which laptop. Advice please.

mikefearn83 · February 22, 2020

Around a month ago I purchased a HP laptop from curry's being the one linked below.

This is the second once I've had due to the first being replaced for noisy fans and a crap screen. To be fair it's a good unit but still has fan issues and the screen is quite poor. The specs are good but I know from looking that's these high rpm noisy fans are a massive issue.

HP

My Mrs has a Huawei Matebook D 2018 which she has always loved and I've admired. I've actually just taken delivery of the new Matebook D 14 2020 but have yet to open it. I ordered it so not to miss the free Huawei buds 3 which are worth £150. I can send this back for a full refund and obviously not claim the buds if I decide to keep the HP.

Matebook 2020

I'm a little torn to which to keep. The HP is slightly better specs overall, but the Huawei is much more well build and good looking. The fans alone on the HP are annoying me, and thats really why at at this point.

I want to run a few CPU intensive programs but nothing which would warrent a far better unit aside these 2.

What do you think, should I keep the HP, or keep the new Matebook together with the free buds.

I must admit the i5 1035G1 appears disappointing Upto now and seems to max out around 1.5ghz even after changing all settings possibly. Maybe HP have restricted things due to the fans and cooling issues.

The other thing is that the HP is ram upgradable where the Matebook is not. I do wonder if 16gb would be good to help along with audio editing programs I will be using.

Decisions decisions. Heart or head.

I can send either back for a full refund.

Thank you.