I swear by my Acer Nitro 5. Been running nearly 5 years without a single problem. Great laptops.
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Acer are middle of the pack with hp at the bottom, dell and Lenovo are probably the best. Golden rule, never ever ever buy anything made by hp, problems after problems especially their printers.
I prefer Lenovo to be honest but dell are good as well.
I have been repairing computers for 20 years.
All of the consumer lines are pretty bad these days. Acer has a reputation for being unreliable (backed by some data from SquareTrade ~10 years ago). HP is just as bad, in mostly the same ways, but has avoided the reputation.
Reliable laptops are the enterprise lines - Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Elite Book, and Lenovo Thinkpad. But they are significantly more expensive when buying new.
Among the business ones
Dell: No Vostro
Lenovo: No ThinkPad E series
I've been extremely impressed with the longevity and all around toughness of my Dell Precision. I think it's gotta be 12 years old now, it weighs a ton, been dropped multiple times, and while I replaced its disk and memory at some point it has never suffered a hardware failure. The thing is a tank, I love it.
My mom had one go to shit in like 3-6 months, have avoided them ever since (granted that was like, 15 years ago)
I recall that Acer laptops had a reputation of being unreliable over 10 years ago already, I'm surprised it had not improved since then.
I tried to do this research years ago and my impression was that acer was near bottom of the barrel in reliability these days unfortunately.
That said, it also seems in general that laptop quality and reliability are a total crap shoot, even within the same company.
So your best bet imo is to just find a model that has the specs you like and research the hell out of it before buying.
The lenovo legion series gaming laptops have been good in my experience. They also have fully AMD ones nowadays too i think. (If you are on linux that is a plus)
Did you use your laptop on a bed at any point?