New laptop advice please - are HPs any good?

[Househunter]

I am looking to buy a new laptop as my Toshiba Satellite is over 5 years old and painfully slow. I want something which works really fast and can store lots of photos. I saw this on the John Lewis website and it gets a good review ( but only one). However DH has an HP which he hates as the keyboard is really flat and keys are not separated by much of a gap so he keeps mistyping.

Does anyone have any experience of HPs particularly ones similar to this one? Or any other recommendations please?

Thanks.

[Mabelface]

We have an HP and we love it. It's a couple of years old and still whizzy.

[Househunter]

So do you find the keyboard ok madlizzy? They do look flat but I thought its something I'd get used to. DH thinks otherwise!

[Mabelface]

I like it. I don't mind the flatness of it.

[NoComet]

DD2 has a HP, she's really happy with it I think it's about two years old. Bought because Sony is a very rude word.

I'll go tap on her keyboard tomorrow. She wouldn't complain about it being flat as she types a lot on a bean filled lap tray and tilts it without thinking.

(DDs old Siny lap top had a known design faults, it has super glue mending it's fan and a new screen off the interweb.

Getting Sony to fix it was too much of a performance. They got hammered in the US courts, no help here.)