I am a Dell person. After I bought my first Dell desktop I was sold on the brand. I bought my first laptop a Dell 15" back in 2005. When I replaced that laptop in 2012 I passed it on to my daughter.

That old Dell finally died last December. I ordered a new Dell laptop and will pass on the old one to my daughter again once I get it all cleaned up, meaning deleting and transferring all its files to my new one.

The first dell ran Vista, the second one Windows 7. The new one is Windows 10 and that is taking some getting used to. Its definitely different than Windows 7 but I am getting used to the new version.

Personally I do not think you could go wrong with either HP or Dell.