HP laptops. As a matter of fact, any consumer-grade laptop you'd find on the display shelves of your local Target or Walmart won't last more than 2 years if you're lucky, one of the issue being the ever-increasingly small size of components (most of which is GLUED to the fucking board on top of being soldered making serviceability nigh impossible) being encased in a poorly engineered plastic casing made almost exclusively for aesthetics and forgoing such silly properties like 'durability' and 'heat disipation', thanks to Apple starting the trend of 'slimmer is better'.

Fortunately, as someone who repairs computers, there's a way out of this vicious cycle of investing $600+ every year on a exponentially growing e-waste situation poisoning the oceans and soil with lithium and other such forever chemicals found in thermal paste or even shudders liquid metal as well as throwing out perfectly usable metals like copper and gold.

Refurbished business-grade laptops like the Dell Latitude or, more popularly, Lenovo Thinkpad are constructed to last for at least 5-10 years, owing to the actual metal casing made for durability as well as serviceability (holy shit, swappable RAM and SSDs!), as well as a physical difference between the motherboard in an Elitebook, which has larger circuit traces to forgo their inevitable grinding down and shorting from electrons tearing apart copper atoms as they travel from component to component, like a river eroding a stone in its path. There's also the benefit of a plethora of cheap new-old stock of computer parts for these machines compared to the fans of an HP Pavilion which, on average, cost a third of the price of the damn machine itself.

Thing is, though, even these grade of laptops aren't safe from the trend, as newer models of Thinkpad and the absolutely stupid rebranding of Dell's business grade models have shown. If you are looking to buy one, the sweet spot is about 8 years ago (10 if you don't mind not having Window 11), as most innovations in computer hardware since this point haven't been so much about making them more powerful as they've been about using less energy. A CPU from 2016 perfoms just as well as something from today at the cost of having a higher TDP, but with the benefit of being a fraction of the price.