At first I just wanted to buy a basic laptop, nothing too fancy, so I decided to look around during black friday sales. I found one that costs ~ $900, it was an HP. A few days later I found on newegg a much better deal. It was lenovo z710, it has hybrid HDD, Full HD display, bluray player and a dedicated graphics card GT 840 (not GTX!), things that were not included in the HP laptop.
I quickly cancelled my order from HP and purchase the z710 from newegg. When I called HP, they immediately offered a $100 discount, they also mentioned that HP has a 21 day return period with free shipping. Those perks however did not sway my decision to cancel the order. I have to say that HP treated me very well as I got the refund very quickly as well.
Newegg processed my order quickly but when the laptop arrived I was sorely disappointed. The screen used was a budget TN panel made by Chi Mei. The contrast was poor and the viewing angles were even worse. Because of the very poor viewing angles, the brightness of the lower half of the screen is significantly different from the top half. Thus when watching a movie or just typing an email you have to constantly readjust the screen depending on which area of the screen you're currently looking at. See pics below
The screen shown below should have one uniform color
Here you can see that the black strip at the bottom is much brighter than the one at the top. This is the main problem with TN panels, especially the cheap ones.
Needless to say I sent the laptop back and kudos to newegg they handled my RMA without a hassle and sent the refund in less than a week.
Now, since I've always been a laptop enthusiast, I then decided to do away with budget laptops and go for the premiumly priced ones. After looking around on youtube and some hours googling I've decided to buy the GS60 4K from Gentech. Ironically it brought about more disappointments, if you're interested to know what happened, read my other posts about both the laptop and the reseller.
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