The ****ing brand is irrelevant anyways but if you want to jerk yourself off on how poor your experience was with them then whatever, do what you want I honestly don't give one at this point.
The specs I posted are pretty sufficient in my opinion. HP definitely makes cheaper laptops but in this case we're not trying to drop stacks on some ludicrous machine that would probably cost over a thousand dollars. And last time I checked, laptops are obviously more fragile and prone to breaking than a ****ing desktop regardless of what brand. Unless they have some titanium alloy casing or something like that then comparing durability is ****ing pointless.
However, if your really want to go off brand name(who ****ing cares), at least post the best thing they have to offer at the price range instead of something that has trash specs.