It's a nice looking laptop, but I don't know anything about them. This is a Christmas gift for my son, but I'm positive he's going to love it. HP is the only one he'll use.
Screen panel type has limited viewing angles vertically. But not from the sides (horizontally). It is like the screen panel material was installed turned 90 degrees when cut to size. So I returned it. Also did not like the No-Backlit keyboard with very thin white font on black keys. Hard to see in dark rooms but guess they all are going to be like this. If I kept it I would place bold front stickers on the keys.